With an average age of 24 years and 50 days, our starting XI against Everton was our youngest since May 2011.
So why did Freddie Ljungberg include so many youngsters? This is what he told the media after the game:
on whether new head coaches being in the stands affected the players...
It's so difficult to say. I hope that they cared but at the same time I wasn't happy with how we played against Man City. I don't think we had enough energy, we didn't respect the game enough, and that's why I picked the team I did today.