If we get beat by a better team I can take it but what I cant take it our lack of fight and bottle. We never tried to disrupt them at all with clever fouls, we were never aggressive when they got near our box and just sat back and watched them, we never put the boot in.....we basically thought they were better than us and showed them far too much respect.
Top teams know when to foul, to be aggressive, to feign injury, to slow the tempo. Casillas doing his gloves up is a prime example when they were down to 10 men of game management. That joker Pepe going down, making clever fouls when needed....hes a jerk but he has game management and they used it all to their advantage.
We need to be more clever and a lot more aggressive. I have called for some time to have a bit more nastiness in the team, to rile the opponents but we don't seem to have that type of character in the team yet and I think that must be addressed.
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