mbappe kids football kit Rafa Benitez has revealed precisely how he motivated his Liverpool team to come from a three-goal deficit against AC Milan to win the 2005 Champions League final in Turkey a decade-and-a-half ago.
The Reds turned a trailing 3-0 scoreline around in the space of six second-half minutes to force a penalty shootout and ultimately win their first European crown of the Premier League era.
StevenGerrard,Vladimir Smicer andXabi Alonso all netted in a remarkable turnaround hailed as the ‘Miracle of Istanbul’ , which saw Benitez’s name subsequently enshrined into Anfield legend.
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Ahead of the game’s 15-year anniversary this week, the Spaniard has detailed his team talk at the interval, with his side looking effectively buried, and how their changes – big and small – helped them complete a comeback for the ages.
“When you concede a second goal, you have to think cheap replica football shirts about changing something,” he told The Athletic . “And if you concede a third? Well, then you definitely have to change and that was very clear.