Chelsea couldn’t really push through. Their manager is a craic
<Zidane shrug>
Joe Cole sounds like a kid doing punditry, quite a high little Lanaan voice “yeah nice skills”
I saw that one that Werner missed early on, it's extraordinary how powerful an inverted hot-streak can be. When a player - a good one - just suddenly gets hit by a curse and then with no explanation or warning at all they inexplicably can't do that one particular thing that they were so very very good at doing, that precise particular thing that made one team pay another tens of millions of pounds so that he would come and do it for them. No doubt he is doing everything right; training just as hard, working on each aspect of the game, seeking to perfect every facet of every imaginable skill, staying late for extra training and poring over videos from countess angles, even those which are seemingly completely unnecessary in case they reveal some unseeable pass that he might look for in the future . His attitude can´t be questioned, in fact even his general level of play is beyond reproach - he covers more ground than anyone on the pitch making unselfish decoy runs the full length of the pitch, he slips his marker again and again, passes like a metronome, and encourages his fellows with priceless tactical advice which is delivered in such a way as to make the recipient glow with pride. He even gets on the end of crosses, beats his man to make a chance out of nothing.
But he has been cursed and he can´t buy a goal, he simply cannot penetrate the invisible goal line fence that springs into action the second he has a pop. I dunno why this happens to people, but it is a phenomenon that I have observed several times. I dunno what the cure is, sometimes going to a new new club can change it and they spring back better than ever.... sometimes it just goes away, maybe with some kind of voodoo etc behind the scenes, which of course they never announce. I feel sorry for the guy, its like "I'm doing exactly what did before but nothing is happening":
By contrast Benzema, the horrible bast is banging them in left right and centre like magic. I never rated him that highly before but with Ronaldo gone he's stepped into his shoes and suddenly he looks like the best striker in the world... every time he touches the bill all it flies into the net.
What I'm saying is, it's a funny old game.