skiathospurs
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JJ is pretty good,just the right amount of bias and good knowledge.I have to admit I was getting a bit shouty with Serge and I wanted Poch to bring Trippier on when he got booked, I could feel another West Ham away moment coming on. You're right both fullbacks had a bit of a tough time last night and occasionally so did Dier, Davinson and Dele. But everyone whjo didn't have a name starting with D played well. However this is nit-picking and being harsh in the extreme, this was Juventus away and 2-0 down after 9 minutes. Everyone knows all their records, so all of our players are going to have a dodgy moment or two. We were fantastic, need to go on though now and finish them off at Wembley.
I don't want to detract from any of our performance but does anyone else think that Juventus got complacent after going 2-0 up so early? seemed to me that they sat back, thinking they could score whenever they wanted and let us calm down and start playing, which of course then got us going to great effect.
Finally and clearly not everyone agrees, I think Jermaine Jenas commentary was insightful and almost 100% bang on throughout. I didn't like all of it, but he clearly knew what he was talking about most of the time, which can't be said for many of the TV commentators we have to listen to.
I think when teams sit&stop what they were doing,it can be hard to get going again,Juve found this,was it them mentally or us being better?Truth is in life when you have an opponent on the deck,never take your foot off their throat,or let them get back up,did we learn nothing from bruno tyson all those years back??