Totally. Depressing state of affairs.
A front trio of Bellamy, Crouch and Kuyt, with Gerrard as attacking mid would have dominated.
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Totally. Depressing state of affairs.
A front trio of Bellamy, Crouch and Kuyt, with Gerrard as attacking mid would have dominated.
That is the beauty of it - football is a team game.
When working together, a team is larger than the sum of its parts.
It is a metaphor for society. Or what it could be, rather.
Crespo was the Seria A version of someone like Defoe. I mean, he'll get you goals, but legend?
I dunno about that.
I have a lot of respect for Defoe actually - a proper natural striker, scored wherever he went, at any age. I think he was underrated.
I don't think he was under or overrated. He gave you around ten goals every season.
Folks focus on just Istanbul but there were a lot of miracles on the way.
Carson, Finnan, Carragher, Hyppia, Traore, Garcia, Biscan, Gerrard, Riise, Letallec, Baros
vs
Del Piero, Ibrahimovic, Nedved, Emerson, Blasi, Camoranesi, Zambrotta, Cannovaro, Thuram, Zebina, Buffon.
And the bench comparison was even more depressing as Alonso was injured in the first leg. And we played them off the park in the first 30 minutes. When Rafa got it right, he really got it right.
Oh he was good don’t get me wrong but I was referring to a couple of headers that were better than his best. Yossi vs Real and Suarez header from outside the box 🙂
I thought we could win prior to the final group game and it paid for a lot of things as a broke 21 year old 😀 long before the cash out merchant I became!
Bellamy should have started 100%.
Criminal he didn’t
Yossi vs Real was a good header but fairly standard. The Suarez header from outside the box was amazing but I don't think it beats Garcia vs Anderlecht (I think it was them anyway).
Crouch should have started
Yep
Zenden and Pennant as our wingers in a European Cup Final was dire wasn't it.
And playing Kuyt up front on his own, when that was hardly ever done throughout the season.
And playing Kuyt up front on his own, when that was hardly ever done throughout the season.
Garcia scored some great goals in big games.
Incredibly infuriating player though.
Fun fact he retrieved the ball for all three goals in Istanbul.
Incredibly infuriating player though.
Fun fact he retrieved the ball for all three goals in Istanbul.
Surprised no-one's mentioned another contribution for which Luis Garcia deserved a big fat gold star: putting in the tackle which ended Keane's ManUre career.
I’ll go with that to a point but my heart belongs to Jari….
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