Man of the Match vs Bayer Leverkusen

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Performance wise: Mata, he was absolute class in the movement and passing.

Achievement wise: Torres, his 2 assists were crucially needed.

[DanAdibi! 106]

You have to give it to nando. He played great last night, only down side was he didn't take his chances.

[termninja 5,290]

Actually I wasn't that impressed with Torres and I'm a bit surprised you overhype him again...he looked scared and sloppy with the ball. Nice assists though.

[erinblue 16]

went for mikel....excellent...held it all together...raised his game prob because he seen how well raul played last weekend.......their keeper kept them in the game, really he should get motm

[NoFear 23]

Luiz for me.

Yes, Mata was more influential. But when it looked like we were under pressure around the hour mark, we needed someone to do that little bit extra and Luiz was who stepped up to take that role. One marauding run past 3-4 players, picked the right man in Cole who was free and hit a sweet right foot drive to the bottom corner FT9 would have been proud of. That eased the pressure on us and allowed us to create numerous chances on break from then on which eventually resulted in that 2nd goal.