It may have taken a long time to come, but maybe exactly because of that, Diego’s stunning drive to open the scoring looked even more spectacular: “We dominated the game...
It may have taken a long time to come, but maybe exactly because of that, Diego’s stunning drive to open the scoring looked even more spectacular: “We dominated the game...
It may have taken a long time to come, but maybe exactly because of that, Diego’s stunning drive to open the scoring looked even more spectacular: “We dominated the game but left so many chances unused. That made my goal very important – and it was a fantastic goal to boot,” glowed the goal-scorer after the game. Diego went on: “I knew straight away that I had connected perfectly with the ball but I then saw that the keeper was in flight in the right direction. I only really knew that the ball was going in as it passed the keeper.”
Just minutes later, the fans were out of their seats again celebrating the next stunning strike. Torsten Frings had simply let fly from 20 meters out and the ball rocketed in off the inside of the post: “That was the second stunner in a row in that game. I connected well with the ball but there is always some luck involved when the ball goes in so unstoppably. We had the luck today that had eluded us until now. It was tough work today, especially considering the number of good chances that we wasted, too easily at times.”
The theory that the game was won on the strength of two exemplary strikes was not something that general manager was willing to adhere to and he contradicted Torsten Frings, saying: “No, no – those one off, exemplary shots are the kind that are lashed in hopefully from way out and nobody knows where the ball might end up, but from 20 meters you can pick your spot.” At the end of the day, the sort of goals that are scored are, on the whole, uninteresting – it’s the three points that count.
