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[El Nino_#9]

so.....
any guesses on liverpools line-up tommorow?

i think we'll go for this line-up-

..............reina
finnan...carra...hyypia...riise
gerrard..sissoko..alonso..kewell
...............garcia
...............nando

[Lionheart]

I think Crouch will start. He did really well against Saprissa (How red black and white gave him a score of 7.0 is beyond me. Crouch has everything at the moment but RB&W is just guessing). Garcia to come off the bench. Riise to LB and Kewell to LM. Nando to replace Ciise.


.....................Reina

Finnan...Carragher...Hyypia...Riise

Gerrard...Sissoko...Alonso...Kewell

..........Crouch

......................Morientes

[El Nino_#9]

I think Crouch will start. He did really well against Saprissa (How red black and white gave him a score of 7.0 is beyond me. Crouch has everything at the moment but RB&W is just guessing). Garcia to come off the bench. Riise to LB and Kewell to LM. Nando to replace Ciise.


.....................Reina

Finnan...Carragher...Hyypia...Riise

Gerrard...Sissoko...Alonso...Kewell

..........Crouch

......................Morientes

you see, i'd of agreed with that team too. but i would of thought that garcia would start at least this game seeing as he didnt start the previous match against saprissa (or did he?  )

[oOShrimpyOo]

ive been thinking lately and im actually quite worried that if the boys let a goal in their heads may drop, as its been so long (since october in fact) that we conceded a goal. im not saying we'll concede a goal today, it just crossed my mind. If we do concede i hope the boys show the character to push on and not to let their heads drop. My prediction we will win 2-0.

Shrimpy.

[Lionheart]

ive been thinking lately and im actually quite worried that if the boys let a goal in their heads may drop, as its been so long (since october in fact) that we conceded a goal. im not saying we'll concede a goal today, it just crossed my mind. If we do concede i hope the boys show the character to push on and not to let their heads drop. My prediction we will win 2-0.

Shrimpy.

I think the lads are a bit more professional than than Shrimpy.

Just as 'one swallow does not a summer make', so does, 'one goal does not a failure make'.

If the boys concede a goal (or even three as in the last CL final) then they'll come back. They are too professional and battle hardened to do otherwise. 

[oOShrimpyOo]

ive been thinking lately and im actually quite worried that if the boys let a goal in their heads may drop, as its been so long (since october in fact) that we conceded a goal. im not saying we'll concede a goal today, it just crossed my mind. If we do concede i hope the boys show the character to push on and not to let their heads drop. My prediction we will win 2-0.

Shrimpy.

I think the lads are a bit more professional than than Shrimpy.

Just as 'one swallow does not a summer make', so does, 'one goal does not a failure make'.

If the boys concede a goal (or even three as in the last CL final) then they'll come back. They are too professional and battle hardened to do otherwise. 

very true, i must just be getting a bit nervous about 2moro

[oOShrimpyOo]

CORRECTION: today even

[Sabre]

Yup Lionheart, records are meant to be broken. The clean sheet record should only give confidence about how good is our defensive work. A good champion must know playing against the score too.

[A.B.]

Clean sheets are good but winning is most important.

[El Nino_#9]

9 hours until kick off!
c'mon you redmen!

[Lionheart]

A clean sheet is only good for the ego.

[Tricolor Paulista]

About the game, I think it will be great.

Gerrard is awesome and Garcia is extremely dangerous.
Reina is a great goalkeeper and Carragher is very hard!

Hyypia appears to me very slowly and I think we should use this to advance for the goal. Amoroso is fast.

Your defensive system is in line and this should be great for us.

To hand your attack we´ll probably put Mineiro to be the shadow of Gerrard and Lugano and Fabão will take care of Morientes and Garcia. Josué will help them.

Cicinho advancing in the right side and Junior in the left should feed our forwards. The same to Danilo.

My prediction:

São Paulo 3 - 1 Liverpool.

Same prediction as mine!
3x1 TRICOLOR!!!

[Tricolor Paulista]

They should say "I know we are gonna lose because we are a horrible team of , so congratulations"

Yer fuck off yer misserable arrogant b@stard

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I talk seriously, Sãopaulinos hasn't been arrogant here, they came to discuss the World cup and what they received as answer was

"Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh, who cares for what those hungry monkeys are saying? We're gonna trash them all"

But that's ok, I shoudn't be here, this is your forum so you order here guys, I'm gonna take my "arrogance" to the Sãopaulinos communities in Orkut   

See ya sunday!

       

[Tricolor Paulista]

This kind of thing happens often here on this site.

Before some team or another plays the great world renowned Liverpool Football Club, someone pays us a visit and talks about how they are going to do this or that or beat us or score against us or humiliate us.

Then what happens?

Inevitably their team falls to defeat and they are never seen again.

I GIVE MY WORD...I'll be here whatever happens in the game. Maybe the day after the game, because depending on the result, I'll be on the street celebrating or too sad with my PC turned off and the telephone disconnected.


And common guys, who disrespected you? PLEASE, quote the disrespectful messages. You've already made fun of proverty in South America, have said São Paulo is nothing and etc and no one here felt so disrespected as you are because of some silly images.

What do you want us to say? "Ooohh Liverpool...you're the best...you're the one...Ooooh Liverpool...São Paulo and any team in the World is nothing compared to Liverpool's glory...Oooh" Common you all, can't we even say that we think São Paulo will win the match?

       
Yeah!
I made your words mine!
And, by the way, only 8 hours till THE game.

[greenred]

Battle of goalscoring goalie and the 'big tall bloke'

Alex Bellos
Sunday December 18, 2005
The Observer


In Europe, it is regarded as a mildly diverting Christmas distraction. In South America, it is seen as the pinnacle of club sporting achievement. You can judge for yourself if you are up in time for Liverpool play Sao Paulo live from Tokyo on BBC2 this morning.
Fifa have taken over the event, embellishing what was a one-match duel between the champions of Europe and South America, known as the Intercontinental Cup, with the champions of the four other continental confederations. The spirit of inclusivity gave the two favourites little more than shooting practice in the semi-finals.



Liverpool will be hoping it is third time lucky, having lost here twice before, in 1981 and 1984. Sao Paulo won in 1992 and 1993 and victory this time would make them Brazil's most successful club.
Enjoying a record run of 12 clean sheets, the European champions are the in-form team. The Brazilians will be playing as if their lives depended on it. Sao Paulo, with reported disquiet in their ranks about money and loyalty, had a couple of scares in their 3-2 defeat of Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad.

The greatest threat to Liverpool comes from an unlikely source. Sao Paulo's top scorer this year is their goalkeeper, Rogerio Ceni, 11 of whose 21 goals have come from free-kicks.

Ceni is the captain and heart of the team, which, like most of the best Brazilian clubs, is basically a mix of young or recently discovered talents about to move to Europe and ageing stars just off the plane home. Cicinho, the sprightly right wing-back, chose Real Madrid over Manchester United this year, although his transfer in January is now in doubt since Vanderlei Luxemburgo was sacked from the Bernabeu. Cicinho is seen as the long-term replacement in the national squad for captain Cafu, who was in the Sao Paulo team for their 1992 and 1993 titles.

Former Parma team-mates Junior and Amoroso are the most glittering of Sao Paulo's European returnees, with Amoroso scoring two goals in the semi-finals. Rafael Benitez will also be watching Lugano, the Uruguay central defender, who was recently rumoured to be on Liverpool's shopping list.

Since Sao Paulo won the Copa Libertadores in July, their minds have been on preparing for Tokyo, the justification for a poor eleventh place in the Brazilian league. As a measure of the seriousness of their planning, the club consulted Brazil's Sleep Institute for advice on jet lag, and battery-powered electrical stimulators were distributed to players during the flight to Japan to keep their muscles active.

On arriving in Tokyo - five days before Liverpool - the focus had been lost, with the Brazilian press reporting arguments between the team about their winners' bonuses and irritation at Amoroso, who had allegedly signed a pre-contract agreement with a Japanese club. The players imposed a temporary ban on contact with journalists.

Paulo Autuori, Sao Paulo's coach, was calm after watching Liverpool's 3-0 semi-final victory over Costa Rica's Deportivo Saprissa. 'It wasn't anything I didn't already know,' he said.

According to Junior, it is wrong to call Liverpool favourites. 'Their game is about trying to get high balls to the big tall bloke,' he said of Peter Crouch. 'We have to be careful of that. But we are capable of being champions. There are lots of quality players in our team.'

This year's event is Fifa's second attempt at organising a world club competition and its chances of survival appear better than the first version.

Manchester United and Real Madrid took part in the inaugural Club World Championship in Brazil in 2000, which was won by Sao Paulo's city rivals Corinthians and whose format was quickly abandoned.