My mind was drifting off to memories of heavy metal football during that last 20 minutes. The Dortmund performance at the same stage of the UEFA Cup was like chalk and cheese to last night.[/b] Admittedly Dortmund had the chances to have killed off that tie but if being two goals down in a knock-out cup tie isn't the moment to throw caution to the wind then when is?!
It's easy with hindsight but rather than taking off Diaz could we have moved him to right back and had his energy and ball carrying from deep with Salah/Jota ahead of him? Anything just to disrupt Atalanta from being so comfortable. Gomez coming on for Trent felt like an admission that we were content to escape with the bit of pride that a 1-0 victory gave us.
It's different at Anfield though, particularly a 2nd leg attacking the Kop. We were heavy metal that second half against City, that was only a month ago.
Going through after a 3 goal defeat at home in the first leg is almost unheard of. 2 or 3 goal deficits are overturned far more when home 2nd.
The damage was basically done in the first leg. Complaint last night was the complete lack of ideas last 20 minutes when we needed to at last have a proper go. Even in the first leg we created a good amount of chances, we just wasted them.
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