Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
No not really, I've already told you my thoughts about the Bayern match and how meaningless I think it is, you're the one that deviated to our run since that game etc
That's hardly a deviation. No game can be seen in isolation, whatever YOU think of that result it was clearly a confidence boost to the team. You may have seen it as meaningless as it didn't see us go through but the players didn't. It was the first game we'd played after the defeat at WHL. Had we lost that too or, worse, got a whipping I can't believe we'd have gone on the run we subsequently did. That run - which presumably you also regard as meaningless because it didn't lead to a trophy which is your only criteria for success in football - meant we qualified for the CL.

Now we come to this season. I think most of us attribute our run so far to the lift signing Özil has given us. Question for you - would he have signed for a side in the Europa League? Would he balls. So it is all linked to what we did last season and that run started with the Bayern game.