He said: "We have used this tactic several times, it's not the first time we have used it. We know it works in a different way to when you are playing with a striker, but it can work, and we saw that in the last match when Cesc played there and scored a great goal.

"But it's not about what system you use, it's about how we play it and if the result is good, then you say the tactic was fantastic and the decision the manager took was the right one.

"We were quite pleased with how it worked."