GazTheLegend
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We were better in 2009 than we were in 2011. I don't know why people think otherwise.
Ronaldo had quite a few chances that I'd seen him bury in the past and we started the game REALLY well. We got sucker punched by Et'o and the unplayable Iniesta and after that they just passed the ball in that carousel they do for the rest of the game.
But 2011 they demolished us utterly, we didn't have a hope in hell. I remember watching them beat Real Madrid 5-0 and Madrid didn't touch the ball, and wondering how the hell we could compete with that. 3-1 was honestly better than we deserved.
But that team will always, always be clouded by the blood bag scandal that the Spanish covered up and after refusing to release the names of the players implicated in that there will always be doubts in my mind about quite how they managed that pressing game for 90 minutes for 60 games against what you might have thought could or should be athletically superior teams.
Look how knackered we were after like all of 5 games trying it.
Ronaldo had quite a few chances that I'd seen him bury in the past and we started the game REALLY well. We got sucker punched by Et'o and the unplayable Iniesta and after that they just passed the ball in that carousel they do for the rest of the game.
But 2011 they demolished us utterly, we didn't have a hope in hell. I remember watching them beat Real Madrid 5-0 and Madrid didn't touch the ball, and wondering how the hell we could compete with that. 3-1 was honestly better than we deserved.
But that team will always, always be clouded by the blood bag scandal that the Spanish covered up and after refusing to release the names of the players implicated in that there will always be doubts in my mind about quite how they managed that pressing game for 90 minutes for 60 games against what you might have thought could or should be athletically superior teams.
Look how knackered we were after like all of 5 games trying it.