Blue Mooner
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I thought at half time we were the dominant team, controlled the game and possession and all the mighty Juve had was an offside goal. In comes the commentary - Allegri must be the happy manager at half-time and Juve has been the better team and so on.
If Liverpool had won the league, we would be hearing about 'victory of football' to this day. Sickening
At least most blues 'it seems' are starting to see through it. Unfortunately the gullible masses don't
I was at the game so didn't hear all of it but I did watch the last ten minutes only to hear Mcmannaman consistently slagging us. I am getting mightily sick of this 'they've got to move it quicker' to be honest it's an absolute nonsense. The idea that you can pass the ball quickly when you have banks of five to get through is ridiculous. The reality is that you have to pick your passes much more carefully otherwise you are constantly at risk of your passes getting intercepted. Naturally the pace of the game will slow when it's defence vs attack as players have no space to run into and it's harder to find your man.
It has now become accepted parlance amongst the footballing masses that you can somehow inject pace into these situations.
In reality, this situation requires patience and an ability to break the lines and pick the right pass, not some kind of magical injection of speed in very tight situations.
But no, in this situation, cue 10 minutes of slagging from McMannamon. My experience of English teams in Europe is that they are quite partisan and the narrative would be encouragement and a positive discussion on behalf of the. English team. Not for BTSport they were positively in Juve's camp.