The return of Sturrdge and Allen will see the team restored to being a proper football team. What we witnessed tonight against very ordinary opposition with several speedy enthusiastic individuals was not a football team but a dishevelled mess with no balance, no belief, no conviction, no passion. Players make teams and we simply had no players tonight other than balotelli with any of the qualities I cite. The return of those two, particularly Sturridge, will be akin to a transfusion and the missing qualities will return right through the team.
Madrid won't know what fecking hit them.
You have to admire their optimism.