I agree entirely, and would add that the same was true under Leonardo: we'd be a goal or two behind, and the team would suddenly bulldoze a path to scrape 1 or 3 points in the last 20 minutes.
It's a bit difficult to expect something like that with RC's (radical) substitutions, but then again we don't know how he would have reacted if he had Forlan, Motta, or Deki on the bench. All hypothetical of course.