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Originally Posted by MrElectricOcean
We threw it away with costly errors. Still deserved to win, you didn't but somehow did, story of the season.
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The "better team" who "deserved to win" would not have thrown it away with costly errors. It was a great game between two distinctly average sides. One performing above their norm and one below it. My feelings of the cup final is that it was settled with experience and skill and Rangers, as a team, had more than Dundee United in a penalty shoot out scenario.
That is my completely unbiased opinion.
You are right, Aberdeen were fantastic in Europe, but if Jimmy Calderwood had the tactical knowledge of Walter Smith they might have had a good run and may have just faced off against Zenit, who knows?
The tactical acumin shown by Walter and the Rangers team this season is just as big a part of football as Messi's sublime dribbling skills, Christiano Ronaldo's dead ball skills or Barcalona's drive and flair which the fans now crave and demand the head of any manager who does not serve it (same with Real, as in the Capello example). Barcalona went out of the Champions League because they were tactically beaten by Manchester United. Of course, referee decisions and individual errors may have played a part but Frank Rijkaard's tactics were not right, hence why they lost the goal that put them out.