Howe said: "I always say with these things you can plan a game-plan, how you are going to go against any team. It's irrelevant, really, it's down to the players and how they deliver that and they can either make you look really good or really bad.
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"Yes, we mixed things up, we moulded things, but the players who maybe at times were slightly out of position did an incredible job.
"You look at someone like Elliot Anderson and what we asked him to do today and how well he delivered that, I'm really pleased for everybody."