You seem to be on your own with the opinion Stephens was excellent today. Appreciate your loyalty but come on, he really wasn’t very good today at all.
He is also not as good off the ball as you say he is. His positioning is sometimes very poor, that’s why he makes so many poor and rash...
I agree that Bissouma should have started as he is a far superior player and I’m not a massive Stephens fan but the picking of Stephens alone wasn’t the main issue today.
It was picking Stephens, Gross and Murray together. We just cant afford to play those three who all (to borrow a comment...