It turned out to be a very good, and well deserved win against a team who keep the ball well, pass it well and have great movement. They're nowhere near as good as Bayern, thank God, but they're plenty good enough, and in good enough form, to qualify as one of those teams we might have preferred not to play on this particular Saturday. Their goal showed that the problems we have suffered from away will surface at home against the better teams - in this case defending a high line and trying to play the offside trap when there is no pressure on the ball. I think Tolmie is right about Ya Ya insofar as he isn't a tackler, and he won't turn and close players down quickly, and so Fernandinho has to work like a Trojan to do the mopping up himself. But Ya Ya is of such inestimable value going forward with the ball that he would walk into every other team in the world. I think the answer is to use Milner along with Fernandinho - who you leave out is a good question, but it certainly isn't Ya Ya and it certainly isn't Merlin! Anyway we really deserved the equaliser, if only because we never looked thrown out of our stride but stormed right to their end and put in a delightful goal (what a ball from Ya Ya, Tolmie!) and from then on we never really looked in danger. I was reaching for the anti-depressants when Vinnie went off, but I was amazed how well our two (left footed!) CBs coped; Lukaku tired after halftime, but he was still a real handful when Vinnie went off. Kolarov had a really good game, so did Zaba, Milner was excellent (was Baines playing?!), Ya Ya, Merlin and Alvaro were superb while Sergio had a poor game and only scored two (though one will be taken off him to suggest that Tim Howard made a stupid mistake!). And Joe, who has come in, fairly, for criticism for two howlers on Wednesday, couldn't be expected to have done any better for their goal, but never put a foot wrong after that. Finally, a word for the manager of whom I have been highly critical this week - he deserves great credit for the performance. It wasn't perfect and it was at home. But we went one down and our captain had to go off injured, both of which could have destroyed us but it was an excellent performance and we got stronger and stronger as the match wore on. By the end we were playing some excellent possession football, moving fluently and could, with a touch of luck, have had two or three more. It all makes for a very enjoyable weekend!