cristiano ronaldo football kit “I said to Pako Ayestaran, my assistant, ‘I will give the half-time team talk and we will talk about three at the back to have an extra player in the middle. You go and do the warm-up with Hamann.'”The message we gave to the players was about confidence — try to score early, get back in the game. That was the main thing.

“In other circumstances or with smaller teams, perhaps you might be looking at damage limitation because you don’t want to concede four or five goals but this was a final.

“You have to go for it. And then, depending on what happens in the first few minutes, you make decisions. Again, we did it.”

Though Benitez would go on to taste more European success with Chelsea in the Europa League, his achievement in Istanbul remains arguably the defining moment of his managerial career, despite major domestic triumphs with Valencia in Spain and a Club World Cup with Inter during his first stintin Italy.

He currently manages Dalian Professional in the Chinese Football jerseys for sale Super League but has previously spoken of his hopes to return to the Premier League following a three-year stint with Newcastle United.
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