Rafa segir nýverið að við höfum fengið einu marki meira á okkur en Chelsea en þeir hafa hins vegar skorað 20 fleiri mörk en við. Þar liggur hundurinn grafinn. Crouch skoraði gott mark gegn Úrugvæ fyrir England og hefur skorað einna reglulegast af framherjunum hins vegar nálgast Fowler nær góðu leikformi og standa vonir til þess að hann leggi sitt á vogarskálarnar. Rafa talar einnig reglulega um að Morientes muni á endanum sýna hvers vegna hann var fenginn til félagsins en eins og allir vita þá hefur hann ekki getað blautann skít næstum allt tímabilið.

“We are not defensive, we just defend well. In Valencia people said we were defensive, but when we won the league we scored one less than Real Madrid and conceded less than anyone. If you analyse our team you will see I like to play with our defenders with a high line. We try to do this in most games. Sometimes you have to go deeper, but we always try to push the team forward. We’re doing well scoring the first goal, but struggling to score a second. I’m sure if we’d scored a second against Manchester City the other day, we’d have scored another one or possibly four. It’s been the same in many games when we’ve played really well but couldn’t score a second…”