Borna Barišić

It's important to have two quality left backs.

We had it recently, um, Barisic and Ridvan, of course, were competing for that spot.

Ridvan had his, his inju-injury issues as Romans has had.

Um, you've got to say, um, going way back, it was, well, I remember that the Advocaat team he had, uh-

That's, we speak about it all throughout, that's the biggest thing for a defender.

You can be a top, top defender, but the criticism used to be of Barisic and Tavernier, brilliant for 80 minutes.

Back post comes, somebody nips in at the back of them, and they lose focus, and you get remembered for it.

Makanga, genuinely, for 90 minutes, looked as if he was at, in his own element, at his own level, and not worried about one thing.

Ben Rice doesn't seem to get much off him for the amount of work that he does for him, running overlap and what have you.

so it's it's great listen this is a great headache having competition for places like this where you've got two guys literally just desperately rip the shirt off each other's back to play for the team it's phenomenal this is what we want you know this is this is going back to the time before we used to have two players for every single position i don't think we've had something like that since gerard was the manager he really focused that's what he was after and you know you did have guys like Bassey coming in there was like Bassey Balogun switching over at centre half Barisic and Bassey at left back and stuff the midfield was constantly getting rotated strikers were getting rotated probably with the exception of Morelos but it works it works and it drives standards and it raises competition within the team

Ryan, do you think that the manager's playing a bit of dark arts with these press conferences saying that Naderi maybe wasn't going to be fit and also there was another player injured? I'm going to assume that was Gassama because he seemed to be holding back a wee bit, not taking a man on.

that's

There's, there's, uh, mixed opinions on him, even though I thought he was unbelievable, like, uh, in terms of like his crossing and his levels of performance.

We had Borna Barisic both, like, both fullbacks were unbelievable at crosses and-

Yeah

... stuff like that.

we're not going to get.

The vintage Tav and Barisic of five, six years ago.

Penrice certainly offer something going forward.

Defensively, he can probably still make improvements, but for me, Makanya is the one that you think is probably the nailed-on you know, centre-half number one, and then it's between Fernandes and Godfrey now to grab that starting jersey beside him.

Here's Jack.

Barisic.

Up against Frimpong, he's found Kent!

Goal!

My similarities, and I'm not saying it's quality, there's a different quality issue.

But when I look at Frimpong and Querques, I, I think instantly to when Rangers had Tavernier and Barisic under Gerrard.

There was a lot of time where they would be way too far up the park.

But one thing I always find interesting, Az, is that when that happened, instantly Ryan Jack would go and cover.