Watched quite a lot of this game yesterday. About my third or fourth Premier League game of the season.
And I have to say, whenever I watch a Premier League game these days, I always have the same two thoughts:
1) The average skill level on show is absolutely out of this world. Yes, I'm usually used to watching League One football, but I'm convinced that the general quality of the top division has gone up dramatically over the past decade. Used to be that there were a couple of great players on show, and then a bunch of players with good mental and physical traits. Now it seems like just about everyone can ping an inch-perfect fifty yard pass, or bring it out of the air like it's nothing.
2) Every game I watch, both teams are playing an incessant high press, and every game both teams still insist on messing around with it at the back with short passes that go nowhere until someone (often the keeper) ****s up. Alisson got away with it yesterday (because Fernandes decided on the dramatic swan dive, rather than actually trying to stay on his feet and score) but I understand he didn't in midweek against Madrid. So many goals seem like they're being given away because the consensus theory is that possession above all else is what's important. I guess it's analytics or somat.......