I'll be honest: like plenty I have been slightly frustrated by Gus's insistence on always starting Navarro and Barnes, but they both proved exactly what they bring to the team on Saturday.
No he wasn't! REMEMBER THE JOB GUS WANTS HIM TO DO: Track back, work hard, move the ball on, help out defensively at set pieces, win the ball, stop their full back. He was playing WELL. 7 to 8/10.
And he didn't even get a yellow so to say he was very, very close to being sent off is just...
How can anyone see his first half performance as anything other than VERY GOOD? Some people clearly don't understand the job Gus wants him to do. I doubt Noone, Kaz, Assulin etc could do the job Gus has Barnes do quite as well. Do they have the positional discipline? The work rate? The...
He was VERY good first half, at doing the things GUS WANTED HIM TO DO. He had a dodgy spell early on second half. No idea what game people who said he was poor first half were watching.