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I also remember Lee Dixon saying to me afterwards that I should have shown Ronaldo down the line instead of letting him come inside. I just laughed and said: "How on earth are you supposed to stop the best player in the world from going where he wants?!" (Graeme Murty, Cristiano Ronaldo - how do you stop him?)
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Our manager Steve Coppell got us to play an unusual style, man-marking their attacking players all over the pitch. The idea was that our defenders purely focussed on getting tight to them and disrupting their first touch, with a couple of spare players to provide cover. It was probably the toughest game I ever played, both physically and in terms of the level of concentration required throughout the 90 minutes.
Even though we played very diligently as a team and were delighted to keep a clean sheet, we still couldn't stop Ronaldo completely and were fortunate that our goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann was in good form.
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Our manager Steve Coppell got us to play an unusual style, man-marking their attacking players all over the pitch. The idea was that our defenders purely focussed on getting tight to them and disrupting their first touch, with a couple of spare players to provide cover. It was probably the toughest game I ever played, both physically and in terms of the level of concentration required throughout the 90 minutes.
Even though we played very diligently as a team and were delighted to keep a clean sheet, we still couldn't stop Ronaldo completely and were fortunate that our goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann was in good form.
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