While it is clearly the defensive
side of things that matters most to our France international centre back, Laurent Koscielny has been
lavishing praise on the way the whole team has been working to deny our opponents and he feels that a lot of the work is done with the way we have been starting games.
His sacking might not have come as a major shock, given his
side's recent form, but the
praise lavished on him by managers all over the league this afternoon shows just how highly his opponents rated him.