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by **Ola Mr Benitez** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:46 pm

the ref was giving everything for both teams... the only difference our players don't fall down after the slightest touch.. cheating diving gits :angry:

by **Dundalk** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:47 pm

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:Have we had a goal scored against us in open play yet this season??

Ive had a few Jack's and cant think...help!

No all pens so far

Villa
Chelsea
Portsmouth - missed pen
Porto

by **Red Dotty** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:48 pm

Not great tonight but sign of a good team to hold out for the point.

Alot of players well off form

Think that this will have been our hardest away match in this group.

Bring on the brumies at the weekend so we can make up for that display. :eyebrow

by **Ciggy** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:48 pm

AB's Red Army wrote:
dia- mond wrote:thank god thats over
was Gerrard playin tonight or wot

Worst performance I've seen from any player in the last season or so.

If that were anyone else they would be crucified by now.

Totally agree Gerrard was awful dont evenm think he touched the ball in the first half.
My guess and its a wild shot he isnt fit.

But Rafa has sort of said well you played for England you will graft for us, but graft he didnt do almost Anonymous from our captain ?

Bit weird really, maybe the players that have been here for yonks have had enough of the CL and want the prem?
Or he is still pi.ssed off about getting dropped against Portsmouth.?

by **AB's Red Army** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:50 pm

I don't know what happened, but considering the quality of our team we played like a Championship side. Totally surprising.

Can't blame rotation for that imo. Porto took the :censored:

out of us down the flanks, neither of our fullbacks could contain Quaresma who is an excellent player btw.

by **LittleHobo** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:50 pm

Intresting game really because in my opinion porto were miles better than us BUT they didnt really make any clear cut chances

wierd game

glad its over

by **LittleHobo** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:52 pm

dont think rafa should have played sami (even though he made our goal) he was totally found out for pace for the penalty

by **babu** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:52 pm

strange game. That's usually our league performance Porto came out with, billion's of shots, no joy.

In the end happy with the draw.

Pennant must learn from his sending off. In a cup comp, its just unacceptable. (i am talking about the warning's)

by **bigmick** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:53 pm

I only saw the second half but I can only say thnk God we rested half the team on Saturday. They wouldn't have played with anything like the same energy and fluency if they'd have had to play another match. Viva le rotationalution!!!

In all seriousness though, it ain't a bad point. Get the lads back on the plane sharpish, in fact no leave em out there for a five day jolly up. Lets have a rotation party on Saturday, give Lee Peltier, Lucas, that Argentian winger and all the other lads who never get a game a run out. We'll still beat Birmingham without any bother, and hopefully we can the whole thing out of our system for a bit.

by **lakes10** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:54 pm

not much to say about that game apart from we got very lucky, we were very poor and if PORTO had been a bit better we would have got nothing.

The best thing to do it to take the point and not talk about it again..........oh by the way Gerrard was very poor but i also felt that he did not look well???

by **AB's Red Army** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:57 pm

bigmick wrote:I only saw the second half but I can only say thnk God we rested half the team on Saturday. They wouldn't have played with anything like the same energy and fluency if they'd have had to play another match. Viva le rotationalution!!!

In all seriousness though, it ain't a bad point. Get the lads back on the plane sharpish, in fact no leave em out there for a five day jolly up. Lets have a rotation party on Saturday, give Lee Peltier, Lucas, that Argentian winger and all the other lads who never get a game a run out. We'll still beat Birmingham without any bother, and hopefully we can the whole thing out of our system for a bit.

You mean the Birmingham that we have never beaten in the league under Benitez even with our full strength side?

I want a full strength team on Saturday and a win. There's no reason to rest anyone because we don't have any crucial matches.

oh by the way Gerrard was very poor but i also felt that he did not look well???

Maybe because he was playing so pathetically. I hate when people use excuses for the lad when he plays poorly. He was fine and dandy against England, and :censored:

for us tonight.

by **Emerald Red** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:58 pm

Ola Mr Benitez wrote:Have we had a goal scored against us in open play yet this season??

Ive had a few Jack's and cant think...help!

Nope. All pens.

by **Bammo** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:59 pm

7_Kewell wrote:
Bammo wrote:At least it's over. Absolutely awful performance

Pennant let us down and I'm surprised that players kept diving in (particularly Masch) unnecessarily given how fickle the ref was and how quick they went to ground.

A draw at Porto is a decent result and Rafa won't let them perform that badly again.

porto players were diving all over the place, i'm hardly surprised a few of ours took the same attitude.

bottom line is, we played badly and didn't lose away from home. FC Porto are a good team and if i'm honest i'd have taken this result with 11 men.

Sorry that might not have been clear - I meant diving in as in slide tackles and committing themselves to challenges.

Because the ref was blowing up every time a Porto player screamed like a girl and rolled around, we should have just stayed on our feet and kept it simple. Unfortunately we now have a few yellows that were unnecessary.

Still, we got a point which we'd probably all have taken before hand. The other bonus now is that our squad can cope with Pennant being suspended.

by **lakes10** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:59 pm

oh one last thing.............
Chelsea 1-1 Rosenborg, lol how bad is that

by **maguskwt** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:59 pm

AB's Red Army wrote:
bigmick wrote:I only saw the second half but I can only say thnk God we rested half the team on Saturday. They wouldn't have played with anything like the same energy and fluency if they'd have had to play another match. Viva le rotationalution!!!

In all seriousness though, it ain't a bad point. Get the lads back on the plane sharpish, in fact no leave em out there for a five day jolly up. Lets have a rotation party on Saturday, give Lee Peltier, Lucas, that Argentian winger and all the other lads who never get a game a run out. We'll still beat Birmingham without any bother, and hopefully we can the whole thing out of our system for a bit.

You mean the Birmingham that we have never beaten in the league under Benitez even with our full strength side?

I want a full strength team on Saturday and a win. There's no reason to rest anyone because we don't have any crucial matches.

oh by the way Gerrard was very poor but i also felt that he did not look well???

Maybe because he was playing so pathetically. I hate when people use excuses for the lad when he plays poorly. He was fine and dandy against England, and for us tonight.

so what... now we're not letting him have an off day just because he's been tremendous for us almost every game?

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