today's win keeps making me think back to an interview with, i think, pako ayesteran before he left. in the interview he seemed to dismiss the idea of confidence and instead spoke about the need to create within a team the capacity to win or to overcome. something along those lines anyway.
today i think we really saw this psychological approach work. after going 0-1 down within 3 minutes to the premiership and european champions, a team we have done disastrously against since rafa took charge, confidence would be a ludicrous way of looking at what we did.
i know this sounds kinda bull****ty and pointless near-psychobabble but i just feel like everything rafa has been trying to do came right today. if we'd managed to come back and save a point i think we'd all have taken that given the catastrophic start. but to win. to reduce them to nothing the way we did. we made them look crap. they couldn't handle us and ferguson was left with no choice but to admit it.
and i think the idea of creating within a team the capacity to win when there is absolutely no reason in the world to feel confident is a cornerstone of what rafa is doing. confidence comes and goes even during a game but rafa is after something bigger and less unreliable that confidence. we saw it today. now that we can really see our capacity to win, maybe it's confidence that comes next. and if something happens to knock our confidence then we go back to the bedrock of knowing how to beat every team.
am i rambling? i just think today i saw and understood a little bit more of what rafa is trying to do. and look at the names on the team we did it to. sweetest saturday in years.
today i think we really saw this psychological approach work. after going 0-1 down within 3 minutes to the premiership and european champions, a team we have done disastrously against since rafa took charge, confidence would be a ludicrous way of looking at what we did.
i know this sounds kinda bull****ty and pointless near-psychobabble but i just feel like everything rafa has been trying to do came right today. if we'd managed to come back and save a point i think we'd all have taken that given the catastrophic start. but to win. to reduce them to nothing the way we did. we made them look crap. they couldn't handle us and ferguson was left with no choice but to admit it.
and i think the idea of creating within a team the capacity to win when there is absolutely no reason in the world to feel confident is a cornerstone of what rafa is doing. confidence comes and goes even during a game but rafa is after something bigger and less unreliable that confidence. we saw it today. now that we can really see our capacity to win, maybe it's confidence that comes next. and if something happens to knock our confidence then we go back to the bedrock of knowing how to beat every team.
am i rambling? i just think today i saw and understood a little bit more of what rafa is trying to do. and look at the names on the team we did it to. sweetest saturday in years.
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