Amid the platitudes (and there’ll be plenty to follow further below) perhaps the biggest compliment that can be paid to 19-year-old Alex Scott is that such was his influence on a game of football, it caused the opposition manager to change his team’s shape after just 34 minutes.
Against Sheffield United on Tuesday night, Scott delivered plentiful moments of magic to add to his burgeoning scrapbook, albeit with the annoyance that for all his excellence, Bristol City had nothing to show for it once referee Stephen Martin had called time on the contest.
Speaking in the press conference room at Ashton Gate, Blades boss Paul Heckingbottom conceded he had gotten his system wrong, thinking he could get away with starting just two central midfielders in John Fleck and Oliver Norwood, but neither of those Championship mainstays could lay a glove on Scott in that first half at Ashton Gate.
