34 minutes.
James Rodríguez does not run much any more. He is 27 and he has had 2 knees and he covers about 8 kilometres in a match and he is worth 4 of anybody I have ever coached.
He got it on the left touchline with Rafinha 3 feet away and he did not beat him. He did not try to.
He looked up once.
That is all he did. He did not shape to cross and he did not take a touch to set himself, he just looked up for about a third of a second at a man 30 yards away.
And Christian Benteke started moving before the ball had left his foot.
6 years in this league and he knows what another man's shoulders look like when he has decided to go near post, and he had made his mind up while Rodríguez was still deciding.
Javi Martínez is 6 foot 3. He has won 5 Bundesligas and a Champions League and he had both hands in the back of Benteke's shirt and he was not letting go.
Benteke did not try to go up.
