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[Woollyback]

Carvalho is out of the 2nd leg at Anfield.

Knee problem

Take that you Portugese tw.at

GET IN         fantastic player but also one of the dirtiest players in the premiership. to be replaced by? michael essien - great player and THE dirtiest c*nt in the premiership

as far as i'm concerned the first goal wins it at anfield. if they score first then we need 3 which i can't see happening. and if we score first the atmosphere's gonna go BALLISTIC and chelsea will succumb just like they did in 2005

if i was a betting man i'd stick my money on us. dunno why but i just think they'll be deflated at the thought of the premiership almost certainly going to the sh*te and we'll kick them when they're down

[adamnbarrett]

Look who the ref is

[Dundalk]

Yeah seen that!

Thats got to be good news

[jkop]

Carvalho is out of the 2nd leg at Anfield.

Knee problem

Take that you Portugese tw.at

I love your way with words.

[The Manhattan Project]

We'll definately win if Vladimir Smicer is the ref.

[mighty mo]

he is a lucky charm this referee, he was also  the ref in the olypiakos game ,also chelsea played bolton before they played us in the semi final 2nd leg at anfield in 2005 ,these are good omens

[NiftyNeil]

We'll definately win if Vladimir Smicer is the ref.

[The Manhattan Project]

I predict two things.

1- Chelsea will win.
2- Clive Tyldsley will ejaculate upon hearing the final whistle.

[babu]

I predict two things.

1- Chelsea will win.
2- Clive Tyldsley will ejaculate upon hearing the final whistle.

You seem to predict the exact opposite of what actually happens, so what is the opposite of ejaculate? (and is it painful?    )

[The Manhattan Project]

You seem to predict the exact opposite of what actually happens, so what is the opposite of ejaculate? (and is it painful?    )

I have no idea.

I lost my balls in the divorce settlement.

[jonnymac1979]

Article from Caught Offside Dot Com

For us to compete with, and beat the likes of Chelsea and Barcelona we need our entire side to be acting as a unit. We need our one or two world class players to be on top of their game, and for our decent players to be opertaing above their usual level. We got f**k all of that tonight.

When we beat Barcelona in the Nou Camp, it’s down to the fact that we operated as a cohesive unit from the first minute to last. Not mind-boggling tactics, or inspired changes, just rudimentary on-pitch mechanics. It was effective in it’s simplicity. What now seems to be the only problem with it though, is that it endowed our bunch of players with that ugly air of superiority that quite a few of them carried off at Stamford Bridge last night.

Beating Barcelona is as much a mental thing as anything else. Was there a greater epitomy to our obduracy in the Nou Camp than Sissoko shrugging off Deco with the ‘F**k You’ stamp etched all over it? Nope, it embodied our determination that night. Did we thus continue with that trend of rattling the multi-millionaire opposition last night? Nope. We were much too bloody casual for that.

A sh**ty, lax, carefree attitude was evident right from the first minute. From players who, rightly or wrongly, felt assured that regardless of the occasion, they were in the side on merit, and thus didn’t really have to prove anything. This will henceforth be known as ‘Craig Bellamy Syndrome’.

For the last 4 months he’s been either out of form, injured, impotent in front of goal, or causing major disruption amongst the team, yet he still waltzes back into the starting 11. He didn’t deserve to, and he probably knew it, but you could just tell he thrives on that sort of superiority. The safety in his own little head that, no matter what happens, ‘I’m in the first choice eleven’.

His performance stank. I’d have hooked him long before half-time. Sauntering round that pitch like he’s on some bloody pedestal. You were Bellamy, and you typified the 21st Century footballer; Full of skill, ability and talent, yet replete with the worst kind of contrived, pretentious attitude going. There’s a reason why no manager has ever felt you were worth the bother for more than a year or two. He could do a lot worse than having a long look at the career of somebody like Jamie Carragher. A defender with about 10% of the footballing ability of someone like Bellamy, but somebody who has engineered himself into one of the World’s finest centre-halves, through dedication, and making much much more out of the limited talents he has. Bellamy’s wasting his unarguable ability.

But before this turns into a one-man crusade, it’s worth pointing out that he wasn’t alone. No matter how hopeless Agger, Arbeloa, and Zenden were; at least they tried. At least they wanted to prove something. Everybody can have off games, so long as you’re prepared to walk off the pitch knowing that whatever mistakes you made, you did give your all.

Can the same be said of the likes of John Arne Riise, Daniel Agger, and more pertinently - Steven Gerrard? I doubt it.

Riise was . If any of you get a chance to see that overhead camera angle view of the goal, watch Riise’s contribution to it. Never mind the fact that he was about 30 yards out of position in the first place, more interestingly watch how he just about mustered a light canter back towards the box and the danger as the move passed him by. In contrast, Joe Cole was starting 20 yards behind him and at the opposite side of the f**king pitch. We all know what the end result was. Cole had reached the corner flag in celebration, and Riise was still making his way back to the box.

And that personified his performance; A big fat “MEH…”. Balls running under his feet, half arsed back-passes, zero crosses, and everything done at half the pace it could have been done at. I would not be surprised if Rafa felt his once-secure position in the side was worth eliminating in the summer. Performances like that will only open the already-ajar-door even further for a new left-back.

He wasn’t any less unimpressive than Gerrard though. What’s with him? Did nobody tell him how amazing he was before kick-off or something? Was Rafa not blowing enough bubbles up his hole from the sideline? Good lord, he can slouch. Hunched shoulders, head down, and a W*nk attitude. He walked off that pitch at the end of the game with consummate ease, because he hadn’t broken sweat once in 90 minutes.

It’s as if he knows he’s got a ready made excuse in the ‘right wing / midfielder’ quandary should his performance be abject enough. Well he needs to be told to up and get on with it. He gets enough praise ejaculated all over him when he puts in his superhuman performances, he’s big enough now to be given a kick-up the too. Lifting yourself in the second-half when there’s a volley to be hit, or a Carvalho to be stamped on is too little, too late. Your “I wanna be remembered along with Hughes, Thompson, and Souness” protestations ring a little hollow after minimalist performances like that in the semi-final of the European Cup mate. You were sh**e, and I hope you know it.

Unbelievably though, we’re not out. F**k knows we rode our luck, and had Chelsea and Lampard in particular been more ruthless in front of goal, this tie would be dead and buried, and I bet you Mourinho knows it too. They had their chance to kill us, and they didn’t take it.

Which leaves us with a mountain, but a climbable one. We’ve come back from more testing circumstances than these and won, and with Essien and Ballack to thrust back into the mix to make the challenge that bit more intriguing, it’s gonna be a miracle that’s required, more than a tactical piece of genius from Rafa.

We need luck, the crowd, a more-than-optimum performance from all our players, a monumental one from our captain, but most of all we need to show a bit of desire. The sort of unmatchable grit that once blew away Juventus, Milan, Barcelona, and as Chelsea can attest, them too.

It’s about time we shirked off the shitty superiority complex, and showed a bit of bollox.

[stmichael]

i know it's a cliche, but the first goal in this game is massive. if they get it we're up sh#t creek but if we get it then it's well and truly game on.

if you think back to 2005, in all the home knockout games we started like an express train and scored early goals. if we score early tomorrow i'm not sure if chelsea will be able to cope.

[Rafa D]

Really looking forward to the match now. These types of games is what being a Liverpool supporter is all about. This match could go ANY way and I would not be surprised to see it go anyway - we could win 3 - 0 or lose 3 - 0 and I wouldn't be too shocked.

All I want is for every player who gets a place in the 18 man squad to be able to say they gave it their best shot at the end of the game.


COME ON RED MEN!!

[grayghost]

I think you were a bit hard on Gerrard there Jonnymac1979

[jonnymac1979]

I didn't write it mate.