I thought we got very lucky, and that the rebounds and ricochets which led to Torres getting his chance in the third minute of injury time had a huge whiff of fate about them. The thought crossed my mind in the first half when Downings sweetly struck volley hit Reina, and even more so when Carews glanced header in the second half slipped pat the post. It had the look to me that it was our night.
Should we be embarrassed about that? Should we feck. For all the self inflicted wounds we've had to deal with, we've been very unlucky with injuries, beach balls, deflections and the like. We're due some, and we got our payback tonight.
It is a hugely significant result, but make no mistake we are going to need many more. we need the players and crucially the manager to realise that momentum is unconcerned with the how, it is only bothered about the how many. When you've won eight on the bounce, nobody gives a feck that you got lucky with the second of the sequence. That's what we need to do now, to win, to win again and to win again after that. Perhaps this can be the fabled corner, our 'adrian Heath" moment, the one which people look back on and say "it it hadn't have been for"....
I hope so. We all need it, and none of us need it more than Benitez.