Takeaways
-Son played furthest forward to goal and played close to Kane. This is where he's most effective and where he spent most of his time in the second half of last season. We can't keep playing him so deep as Conte's been playing him in majority of the games this season.
-As important as Harry's goals have been this season, he's is at his best when he's focused on dropping deep, winning 50/50s, holding up play and distributing. I think Conte said that Harry had a specific role yesterday and you can see what he was talking about. He looked a lot better and much more effective going back to this role.
-PEH and Bentancur are quickly becoming one of the best midfield partnerships in the league. They compliment each others' games very well. Bentancur has also allowed PEH to help on attack and it's becoming more and more apparent that PEH is getting more comfortable passing/distributing and contributing to the attack.
-Richarlison is a CF. It's clear as day. He best attributes revolves around holding the ball up, being physical, and linking play with other forwards. While he was effective yesterday in doing those things, I think he could have been even more effective had he been playing more centrally with runners around him.
-Dier has generally been solid this season and the back half of last season so I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt after yesterday's mistake. Likely nerves kicking in at the beginning of the game.
-Sess needs to play alongside Son from here on out. All 7 of Son's goal contributions this season have come playing with Sess. Him and Perisic don't link up well and don't understand each others' games. I also think that we're seeing promising signs from Sess - his pace, off the ball movement and ability to get into dangerous positions will be key for us.
-Emerson........................................