“I'd said to the staff before this game that I thought the first half was going to be really tough for both teams,” he said.
“I thought the game would be like a 12-round boxing bout in which no quarter would be asked or given. We rode our luck a little bit, Orient rode theirs a little bit.
“I went in at half-time and there were two or three things I wanted to tweak. Louie Sibley, Pelly Mpanzu and Joe Powell all took up different positions. Second half, apart from their counter-attacks, we were very, very good.”
“Louie does great,” he said. “We gave him the brief at half-time to sneak into those little areas. For his weaker right side, it was a terrific effort. He came on and played like the Louie Sibley I really love. He had a game or two when he wasn't quite ‘at’ it but tonight he was really energetic.”