The previous Arsenal midfielder Xhaka has virtually been reinvented this season, revered as a lot for his psychological and management attributes as his (largely under-rated) deep-lying playmaking abilities.
However he is been a little bit wanting his ordinary excessive requirements within the first half.
He is misplaced a couple of passes forwards, Jeremie Frimpong twice unable to collect his pings out to the proper, and in first-half added time, slashed a shot huge, a little bit desperately, when a move would have been the higher, smarter possibility.
Plus, his reasonably unorthodox tackling methodology of protruding his bum to attempt to cease Ademola Lookman getting previous earlier than his second objective did not precisely work out.
The traces wrinkling his brow paint an image of a person not in command of the narrative of the match. Whether or not he can snatch it again may outline the second half.
