Rúben Neves was still looking at me when I turned round and drew a square on the whiteboard.
20 yards across, the one Marcus had put on a tablet in a corridor 90 seconds earlier. I put a cross through it.
"Radja Nainggolan has run 6.1 kilometres tonight and 4.4 of them are in there. He has been stood on your shoulder for 45 minutes because you keep walking back into the 1 place he is allowed to stand.
"So do not go in there. Not once. Not for a throw in, not to help Pierre, not because it feels wrong."
"And if he comes with me?"
"Then he is running again, and he has already run 6.1."
That was 2 of the 4 things I had coming down that tunnel.
The third was at the end of the bench doing his laces, and he had not said a word since the whistle.
"Achraf. Bray wanted that ball with you 6 times in the first half."
"It got there 4."
"You counted."
"Of course I counted."
"Then make it 10."
