Mancs face Nike pulloutTaken from the sportinglife website and quite funny....... Manchester United have been warned by major sponsors Nike that a continued...
Benitez has lots to prove. 1388Acording to some papers Kewell was flying in training & doing really well since he recoverd from injury before the cup final. Rafa has nothing to prove. We all knew he was PURE...
There's something about waiting things out that should be familiar to most football fans. You need at least one half to see whether or not things turn around, or if they continue in the same fashion. Milan only scored their 2nd and 3rd as late as the 39th and 43rd minute - up until then things weren't looking good, but in terms of the scoreline they certainly weren't looking disastrous either. In terms of the manager, you can't call it a terrible mistake, just because he didn't enforce any changes after about 30 minutes of the first half.
Regarding Kewell: People have been moaning and moaning about the defensive tactics of Benitez. Perhaps he wanted to play more offensively, and exchanged one defensive midfielder (Hamann) with a more offensive (ehmm....) one?
Whether or not you are alone or have the entire media with you doesn't matter, as long as your arguments are weak.
Besides, I've read enough articles that focus on the miracle of turning around a three goal deficit against Milan which are equally "objective" - ’f anyone actually believes that term still exists, particularly within the media.
How do they know that? Are we now using hearsay and rumours to substantiate our viewpoints?
Is the fact that the TEAM is critical of one decision by the manager somehow proof that the manager is-was wrong? The manager is not the prime minister of a democracy, he's more an enligthened despot. Do you think every team decision made by Fergie or Arsene is greeted with rapturous applause by the players? And if it isn't, does that by default make it wrong?
The score for this match is everything but obvious. It could've been LFC who was 2-1 up, only for Milan to turn it around to 3-2 - before we got an equalizer.
As it was, Milan were giving us a good beating, but we came back from 0-3 - against Milan - in a Champions League final.
That's what pisses me slightly off about your "objective" analysis - the fact that you only seem to put a slight emphasis on LFC carving itself back to 3-3, but put a huge emphasis on the 3-0 part and the 1st half.
What's even more provoking: That you call the amazing turnaround for lucky...
What would that insight be? That after a season where LFC have had problems putting pressure on teams, that we should suddenly put six or seven of our players on Milan's half and outplay them in the Champions League finial? That we should suddenly play in a formation and with tactics that we've more or less never tried before?
No, he wasn't. Putting a different twist on it would be "he was very unfortunate to go a goal down after 53 seconds". That changed things immensely for us.
Indeed.
