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Thought there was some excellent play initially (Sneijder in particular) and Robben was outstanding all the way through. Then a simple, clinical goal for Milan and yet they suddenly looked lethargic after half-time. All that possession for Bayern, no goals and then .. bang! ... Milan again. Well, that's football. At least I won't be up till 4 a.m. listening to car horns ...
Interested in your thoughts, Scouser.
Thanks for that -- very good post!
Excellent points about Ribery and using the left. I agree with the idea of getting Robben roaming more. Not sure that Mourinho should get so much credit because Milan did such a great job of controlling him, though. It seemed to me that Robben had the capacity to create chaos every time he had the ball and that Milan didn't dare get tight on him because of his pace. Adding an extra cover man was a bit of an afterthought on Milan's part, but, when you do that (in my amateur opinion) you should have one of them tighter and the other a bit in reserve. With more variation and support from the other forwards it still looked to me as though Robben could have won that game.
But you've also got to defend, of course, and the Bayern centre-backs obviously couldn't do that (this from my 12-year-old daughter, who's a secret Bayern supporter ).
Your daughter is spot on
Van Buyten was completely done by Milito for the second. Flat footed and allowed himself to get turned, very lazy defending. Militos two goals were top class marksmanship though, deadly.