It was rigged. There are forces working against my boy, and plotting his downfall. I cannot understand how Chelsea were given PSG again. It makes no sense. ALAS, what can one do? Because, Jose may publicly be confident...but he did NOT want this draw.
The amount of times when you would think the coach will make a substitution, or change the balance and shape, but each time Blanc just stands there...doing nothing. He's clueless.
That is where Mourinho and Chelsea have the upper-hand. If the match gets close and Chelsea can just keep Ibra, Cavani, Moura and Lavezzi (a lot of names), quiet, my boy WILL WIN the tactical battle. That is what happened in the second leg last year where my boy's changes where what turned the tie in his favour.
But, as inept as Blanc is, football is football. We saw in 2006 with Domenech, one of THE most useless coaches of all time, that the players can take it upon themselves to win a game. Yes, having the godfather to oversee what you are doing helps, but if you have just a few amazing players who can just get it together and the coach does not really get too much in the way, then sometimes, not all the time, that can be enough to ALMOST win you a World Cup.
PSG have pretty much stayed the same though, which is a good and bad thing. Good, because the chemistry will only get stronger, but bad, because as they have stayed the same, Chelsea have improved. They BEAT PSG without a striker, and this time, they have one of THE most lethal marksmen in the world.
Costa is the kind of striker who won't do anything for eighty-nine minutes and right in injury time, the ball will break away and he will slot home that loose ball. He is the kind of player that can make the difference not only in this tie, but also for Chelsea overall. Who knows what would have happened if Simeone had him fit for the whole of that Champions League final? Things could have been different....
He will go down in history as being one of the best goalscorers ever, because his consistency of incredible goals is...INCREDIBLE. Volleys, dribbles, overhead kicks, flicks, his goal variety is so much better than that Portuguese guy who gets all of the praise.
But he needs to show up. Too many times in big matches, like the Barcelona game, he did not have the kind of impact that a player of his ilk should have. And as I said, time only moves in one direction, and if he is going to do it this year, he will HAVE to hit the ground running because just like every other team that he's played in....PSG DEPEND ON HIM TO FLOW.
My boy or the Blanc man. This is a match that either team can win. But it will come down to this. Either Mourinho giving Laurent a tactical smackdown or just one or two of the amazing talents that PSG have to do something special, like Pastore did in that first leg.
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