Gary Neville
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And Kompany's gone to the left.
After 25 minutes, he's had to switch his centre-backs.
That's not ideal.
In your first game of the season at home, there's a weakness there.
I think it creates a lack of trust in the sense that once you're being switched, when Otamendi can't handle Calvert-Lewin, you're sort of thinking something's not quite right.
And I think ultimately the question mark over this team... I think the goalkeeper actually did OK tonight, so park him for one second, maybe the goal.
But the three at the back...
you can get at them.
You can get at them.
John Stones has been substituted.
I know that's tactical, but he's been substituted.
The back three, they've not kept a clean sheet.
Otamendi's been got at.
Kompany looked a little bit short.
And you have to say that for this first goal, the conclusion...
the conclusion of the switch is that Otamendi on the right, Stones in the middle, and Kompany to the left-hand side, is that the ball still gets played in there, Kompany deals with it, to be fair to him, mistake by SanΓ©, but now you made the point perfectly at half-time.
There, there is no way Vincent Kompany should do anything but stay with that run.
He should never, ever come to the ball.
He's got a midfield player getting across in Fernandinho.
He's got SanΓ© retreating.