if the game management was to stop being an attacking force in the 2nd half then it was dire and nothing to do with resting players for the Swansea game.
There is more to game management than resting players.
Agreed largely. Yet as well as reducing your own threat you can drop into a back five, sit with four across the middle to reduce opposition overloads out wide and through the middle while resting your players.
It was nowhere as attractive as the first half but it was as effective defensively as the first half was offensively at the same time as both resting players and getting much needed game time in to the legs of others.
Players rested, players rotated, opposition largely nullified, a four goal game and plus two towards the goal difference as opposed to 'one nil to the Albion', three points in the bag and job done. There's more than one way to manage a game

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