Perhaps it's a confidence thing then, cos his first touch was pretty shocking at times last season, and that would only get worse the quicker the tempo, surely?
But everything I said is true isnt it? We played excellentfreeflowing attacking football in the promotion season. Gus was intelligent to make sure we were hard to beat this season just gone, to make sure first and foremost that we didn't go down.
Nonsense. Gus wanted to make sure we were SOLID at this level first, just like in League One when he first joined. In our promotion year we played free flowing attacking football, often winning by 3 or 4 goals, so we know that when Gus has his team in place for the division he's not a defensive...
Yup, he just needs to relax and stop trying to play the game at 300mph. Then his natural scoring instinct should return, and perhaps we'll see an improved first touch too.