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Oh sure, you laugh. Rainforest Liu just happens to live in a timezone that's GMT-412.

It was a great lob. What also deserves credit, that few seem to remember, is the great pass from Vieira to Zlatan that set things up in the first place. He made a deep pass upfield and nailed Zlatan between two defenders ... a great combo between the both of them, really.

Pessotto wasn't a complete disaster by any means. Looking back at that goal, it was pretty clear that man-to-man marking on the left side was established and Thuram was looking for a purpose as the third defender against two forwards -- ignoring the fact that between him and Pessotto, Corradi...

Perhaps the best of his career. He doesn't have the ball skills to be as threatening in attack at close-range a la Kaka, etc. But I would like to see him develop a deep shot threat like Nedved or Maniche. This was a nice one in that direction. :D

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It seemed like he got himself trapped a lot by Parma defenders on the left edge of the goal box ... unable to make a decent pass, unable to break to make a decent cross. To notch his game up a level, he'll need to find a way to take better advantage of some of those double coverage situations...

:dielaugh: What a great description, Espectro: "freakicks". Don't know if you did that intentionally or not, but...

Zlatan has been one of our weakest players a couple times this season already, whereas he almost never played that poorly - relative to the rest of the squad - last season. So I think the verdict is still out on whether "he's doing good this season" overall or not. There have been some...

Nice post, Dominic. Agreed that Mutu's continued use could hopefully give us options during those stretches of Nedved's questionable form that come more often than I care for. But I still was scared out of my pants whenever Pessotto got near the ball. He seemed shaky more often than not in...

Mutu still has a lot of rust and quite a few flaws to his game. That said, today, I would agree with you.

Trez had the chances. His mojo was still parked in the team bus today it seemed. :down: But I hope that is only just a matter of odds... and that he'll wind up on the right side of his opportunities by Tuesday.

While I'm still debating as to whether I think Camo or Vieira was MOTM, I think our MVP in this match was Emerson. His replacement of Giannichedda seemed to be the engine that gave us the ball control and possession we were so desperately missing in the first half, enabling the likes of Vieira...

I have to give him the credit for keeping any sense of offense together for us in the first half. And it's not just the goal either, which I suspected was coming. It was that he was taking initiative by at least testing Lupatelli and crew when none of the other players could create good looks at...

Here's my initial take at ratings: Abbiati - 6 Pessotto - 5 Thuram - 6 F Cannavaro - 6.5 Zambrotta - 6.5 Camoranesi - 7 Vieira - 7 Giannichedda - 5 ->Emerson (46) - 6.5 Mutu - 6 -> Nedved (69) - 5 Trezeguet - 5 Zalayeta - 5.5 -> Ibrahimovic (56) - 6.5 Capello - 6 (5.5 first...

What I liked is that we still kept on the offensive heat after Vieira's goal to take the 2-1 lead. It showed that we weren't going to be content to play on our heels and hope Abbiati or Pessotto weren't going to make mistakes.

It's great to see us pull the comeback this season on away turf. We're going to need the experience of doing this down the road (hopefully not too often ;) ). Capello did many things right in his second half subs. Zlatan put together what looked like one of his most effective games in a...

And also a great deep pass by Vieira to Zlatan to set himself up in the end. :D

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! And what a sweet deep pass to Ibra to set up the (heavily delayed) triangle! Rough around the edges, but I really liked the chances we have been creating. Something had to go through. :D :D :D

I'm not entirely sure he's having a terrible game. There are definite mistakes he's making in his ball movement among his teammates. The oddity is that it seems he's taken the unusual approach of trying to take things a little into his own hands from time-to-time, and with Camo I am often most...

No question it's holding him back.