Watched the game again. Made hard work of all three games now. That Romania side is not great. They qualified by making the semis of the 2019 UEFA U21 Championship. But their squad is completely different. Only one player has started both the semi and today's games and one is on the bench. Effectively this is their B or C side made up of players from a pretty poor European league.
Nice to see us be a bit more proactive but think that was more to do with Romania retreating to their 18 yard box as soon as they lost possession. Still couldn't create anything of note despite having more possession. Wood still heavily isolated, often with at least two defender on him.
Not sure why we took Champness off as it seemed to offer us a bit more of outlet than McCowatt did/does. He actually got in behind a couple of times. Don't think Garbett did much of note. Couple of nice touches for Stamenic and I think he probably benefited from us having more time in midfield than in the other games. but still annoys me how many touches he takes at times. He's suspended so assume Lewis will come back in. I'd start Elliott and Champness again.
More broadly on Hay. A system is meant to bring out the best in your players, right? Well Wood has been a lone ranger up top with not a lot to feed off. Cacace hasn't been as productive going forward because we haven't have possession and when we do, there is just Wood to try play it to. Bell and Stensness have been excellent and probably reflect how much they have had to do. So our good defensive players have been busy/good, and our good attacking players have been quiet. It's all backwards.