The second half was the best 45 minutes of our summer and I have watched it back 4 times.
Benfica changed. Vitória went to a back 3 at half time to get a spare man in the middle, which is the correct answer and which I would have done as well.
And it did not matter, because a back 3 gives you an extra body in the middle and takes one off your flanks, and we had Andros Townsend and Antoine Semenyo running at 2 full backs with nobody outside them.
We went round them for 20 minutes and then through them for 20 more.
Jack Grealish drifted inside off the left in the 51st and did the thing he did on pitch 2 at Beckenham.
Stopped the ball dead with the sole of his boot, in front of a Benfica midfielder with 60 caps, and waited.
And waited.
Shhk. The man lunged.
Tk.
Grealish rolled it round him and threaded it into Alexandre Pato's feet from 40 yards with the outside of his right boot.
58th minute.
Andros Townsend went outside and drove it low and hard across the 6 yard box.
