Lukas Hornicek: Comfortable in possession and made a couple of decent saves. But needs to be more assertive with his communication to his centre-backs and command his area. 7<\/p>\n
Leo Shahar: Positive in his play and constantly looked to play balls in behind down the right. A valuable experience for the 19-year-old. 7<\/p>\n
Malick Thiaw: Handed the captain’s armband on his 25th birthday in what felt like a glimpse of the future. 7<\/p>\n
Sven Botman: Had a heart-in-mouth moment following a mix up at the back and nearly headed the ball into his own net, but recovered from there. 6<\/p>\n
Miodrag Pivas: Acquitted himself. Not easy for a young right-footed centre-back playing out of position at left-back. 7<\/p>\n
Aladji Bamba: First appearance since joining from Monaco in a deal worth up to \u00a334m. A little casual at times – a couple of passes went awry – but looked composed and constantly wanted the ball. 7<\/p>\n
Jacob Ramsey: Played a stunning clipped pass for a goal Anthony Elanga had ruled out for offside. Energetic and repeatedly looked to drive forward. 8<\/p>\n
Anthony Elanga: A real bright spark before he was wiped out by a poor challenge from Jose Gaya. Taken off on a stretcher in distress, but club hopeful it is not a serious injury after he bruised his shin. 7<\/p>\n
Nick Woltemade: Likes the number 10 role, but struggled to affect the game. Knocked off the ball a little too easily at times. Needs to offer more. 5<\/p>\n
William Osula: Saw one shot hit the side netting from a tight angle and also had a penalty appeal waved away. 6<\/p>\n
Harvey Barnes: Effort was never in question, but has a battle with Toure for the starting spot. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lukas Hornicek: Comfortable in possession and made a couple of decent saves. But needs to be more assertive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-587439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}