I simply don't get the logic of deriding the CL final, the biggest final this Club has ever played in its entire history. A really shit game of football conducive to most games of this magnitude and any game played a month after a season had ended and in 90-degree heat. Going into the game we were massive underdogs, playing against the 2nd best team in the World having lost just one league game all season, finishing 2nd in the league by one point to the best team in the world and the only team who beat them that season. A team that had finished 26 points above us. We were the better of the two poor performances that day, the MOTM was their goalkeeper (although I thought the saves he made were routine).
It's not about a "soft underbelly", I'd have back in a heartbeat the spirit we showed that took us all the way to the final. We got there because of our spirit, it's what we fell back on as our football was on the decline on account of our high-press was no longer being sustained (for a variety of reasons both in and out of our control) and a central midfield that was crocked.
We are a TODAY a terribly coached team.