Raya 6 - Largely an observer as was protected by defence


White 6 - Struggled a bit with Garnacho


Saliba 8.5 - Excellent interceptions, no one was getting past him


Gabriel 8 - Did well in the air


Tomiyasu 7 - Largely composed


Partey 4.5 - Struggled on the ball giving it away constantly, dropped deeper and deeper


Rice 6 - Got forward occasionally but again not aware enough of United players nipping in to win possession


Odegaard 7 - Tried to make things happen


Havertz 6.5 - A bit muted


Trossard 7.5 - Tried to be a threat, well positioned for goal but lack of pace in game which was getting stretched meant he made way for Martinelli


Saka 6 - Looks spent….be interesting to see if this is one niggle too many going into last game of season




Subs:


Jesus 7 - Could have been brought on earlier


Martinelli 7.5 - Really injected pace into our game



Jorginho + Kiwior - Simply weren’t on the pitch long enough to get a score



The objective yesterday was to win, and whilst we were a bit lucklustre we were playing a side completely bereft of confidence or belief which helped us. I said in the match thread that it would be a jittery game, the occasion would make it so and on top of that we’ve had the jitters lately. No problem with that given it hasn’t ultimately cost us.
We’ve never really had control of the title in any meaningful way, so it’s hard to say we’ve thrown it away the way we threw it away last season. There is a little bit of a season of two halves like last season, just the opposite way round…which ultimately is how you want it to be.

It’s not in our hands, it hasn’t been for four weeks. But we’ve done all we can do. And well you can’t ask for any more than that