Mate, lets be really honest, yesterday's game highlighted why Jose has been leaning to the defensive play even against poorer teams, and a fair amount of people will happily declare Jose a failure this season even if we win "just" the league cup and get top 4. People made up their mind before he arrived, similar to when Harry was here, regardless of whatever he achieved a certain percentage of people just hated him.
Fit Reguilon and Aurier, PEH doesn't have a mare and you play Lamela/Gio instead of Winks/Sissoko alongside Ndombele and we win most games .. problem is we haven't had those players available together very much.
I don't think yesterday's game should lead to Jose, or anyone else, thinking the solution is to play more defensively though. IMO we created the better chances - Everton only won because a) they were more clinical, and b) they got a very soft penalty (and we didn't get one for the handball). If our overall approach and performance from yesterday continued for the rest of the season, I think we'd be getting better results than we have done in the first half of the season (as we're normally very clinical overall, thanks to Kane and Son).
And speaking as someone who's been very vocally anti-Mourinho recently, and who's always hated him as a character, I'd personally say that winning the League Cup and finishing top 4 would be a hugely successful season (at least in terms of results, not necessarily entertainment).
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