I agree with a lot of comments above, playing the DS way and the players buying into it.
Today we played like the Brentford teams which tore us apart twice at Griffin Park.
Under Bruce we were quite a rigid 4-5-1, it was a very fixed structure.
Under DS it’s much more fluid. When Whelan was dropping deep, it freed up space for Hourihane, Grealish, Tammy or Kodjia. It could’ve been any of the midfield or strikers exploiting the space. If the ball was with Chester, he’d move into the space with the ball, Whelan would drop deep and work the ball to our ball carriers.
Taylor was much more fluid in the width of his play, he was wide when we had the ball but came narrow when we didn’t.
And the one thing that many of us on on VV have been saying for god knows how long - you get Grealish out of a fixed midfield and look what he does. He’ll get one goal or assist every other game in this type of formation.
We didn’t have McGinniesta today and still looked like Barcelona at times.
Whelan played well today, but to think if we get a modern day holding player (footballer not tackler) like Woods, we’d have a near complete midfield and forward squad.