Rafa must cure the away-day blues

BE ever so careful what you wish for. After months, possibly years, of complaining about stodgy result-first football we had another seesaw match that gets people talking.

Benitez picked a team to face Galatasaray that was designed to go for the jugular whilst a tad inconveniently forgetting to protect our own.

If our season is beginning to look a trifle weird that’s because every summer signing prefers to go forward. Even Aurelio, one of Rafa’s Valencia stalwarts, is imbued with the kind of gung-ho spirit that once seemed alien to this manager.