Zenith wrote:↑ Rice is 100% referring to Eboué. Touré was marking Larsson: there wasn't an awful lot more he could have done to prevent his lay-off. Eto'o was also well out of Kolo's reach for him to make a recovery tackle.
Eboué had a lapse of concentration and lost Eto'o. Hence his subsequent desperate gesticulating towards the linesman, hoping Eto'o would be flagged offside.
Yeah, makes sense.
Also, Rice seems to have a disdain for the man he was talking about (Eboue). Doubt he'd speak in the same manner if it were an Invincible.
I felt it so much when Wenger said that we didn't even have a chance to play 11 v 11. That loss wouldn't have hurt as much.
Darkest night for us.
Imagine a world if we'd signed Ronaldo and had won the UCL that night. History would be different.
I also found it interesting that Wenger still contemplates if he should have brought on Flamini on at the time, and taken off Cesc instead of Bobby. Both (Bobby and Cesc) have always been defensive liabilities, but I most certainly feel Bobby had that moment of magic in him, so Flamini for Cesc would have made more sense. 'Course Almunia had to come on.
Tragic.