Graeme Souness
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Podcast Appearances
It was, you know, first contact was a Watford player.
All right, the ball comes back in.
Second contact was, all right, it was an own goal, but it was them.
And even in the ball then in the final third when he conceded the two set pieces, it was Watford getting on the end of Steph as well.
They were attacking things in both boxes.
And I just felt, sorry, Graham, just...
All over the pitch, especially second half, they were first to the knockdowns.
They were the first to the second ball, first to the third ball.
They were hunting in packs.
And that's what you have to do.
You have to be able to ride storms as well as playing nice football.
You've got to be able to shut down the opposition as well.
See, they've been in the space of four or five days.
They've been confronted with two different challenges.
Man United, as you said in the first half, were really good.
They tried to take you on in the game of football.
They ended up winning that one 3-0.
And I think the manager has tried to put a marker down, tried to light a fire under them and say, look, this is a tough game we've got.
I didn't think we played very well against Man United.
Because this coming here was a very different challenge to Man United's challenge.