Its own approach brought five cautions, which could turn into suspensions if the same players transgress in the second leg or in the ensuing matches against Madrid.
It took them only 53 to match another achievement: winning back-to-back overtime games in which the same player scores the winning goal.
'It was about instilling a different mentality in the same players,' he said.
A draw would keep them alive in this World Cup but after their limp, barely focused display against Costa Rica, their manager, Cesare Prandelli, knows he cannot trust in the same players for a match he called "the most important match of my professional career".
Small, start-up firms couldn't get a look-in, and the same players kept a stranglehold on the accommodation in many resorts.
When Hammers centre-back James Collins then dived in recklessly on the same player on the edge of the box, there were vociferous penalty appeals.
So why does he persist in believing that Jeter is the same player he was in his prime?
Clearly, this is not the same player who in team marketing materials was once labeled, plainly, the Rebounder.
It is not easy, there are a lot of teams out there in Europe competing for the same player.
"He will be the same player in the dressing room.
