The goal is an absolute thing of beauty, I could watch it over and over (and thanks to exiled, we all can!).
There's so many great things about it, starting with the in to out and round run which had the fullback wondering where he'd gone. From there the full back HAS to engage Coutinho as close to where he first gets on the ball as possible. Foul him if he has to but keep him out if the area where he's going to be in all sorts of trouble.
Course he didn't do that, but from there it's all about Coutinho. As the little Brazilian approaches Viyella (or whatever the f*** his name is) will have been thinking "oh sh!t, show him onto his left, onto his weaker foot, don't let him come inside and hit it" and just as he's unscrambling his thoughts he gets done with the most beautiful little feint which stops him dead in his tracks. The beauty being of course that Phil actually goes where the full back wants him to go, but on his terms. There's a little gear change and whoosh he's gone, then it's the eyes to DeGea before the cutest little dink. I swear like everyone else I wondered WTF had just happened when it first went in, I think even the fans in the ground didn't realise. I should think the lads in the away end had no idea.
It was a truly wonderful goal, particularly in the context of the contest. It will be remembered for many a year, pure class.
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