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Seano Kop wrote:I was proud of the boys last night. They never gave up, they kept fighting and we were just plain unlucky I felt. Riise's own goal, Skrtl getting injured, the offside for the first goal, Sami's penalty shout. Plenty of things that could have turned the tie.

Look on to next season now when we do the quadruple!!

now that is optimism 

we can only hope

ste123lfc wrote:I think I shocked a few people this morning, when talking about the game a few said they were glad the fat frank scored. I told them that it would of been better if he had his leg snapped in half. Can't stand the fat tw@t. Playing on all the sympathy, f*ck off.

Reg wrote:Question: What happened in the first half??

We didnt compete, our passing and first touch was terrible, we allowed them to dominate.

Its like we had no will, no rocket up the @ss to take the game to them. We were horrible.

Yet Rafa did nothing at half time as if he was satisfied? If we've played Crouchie in a conventional 4-4-2 cant help but feel our first half would have been better which could have turned the course of the game.

I'm not convinced this 4-2-1-1 whenever it is, works against class sides. Stevie is not a striker like Drogba or Rooney say - or even Anelka, so why do we pretend he is?

If we bought Drogba, this lone striker cr@p would go out of the window the same day. If we played 4-4-2 when we had killers like Kenny and Rushie in the same team, why would we play a lone striker?

If Gentleman Bob was amongst us and we asked his opinion of playing a lone striker with a midfielder behind him in the european cup semi final when we NEEDED to score to win, would he think it wise or be surprised the opponents scored more than we did?

It doesnt make sense to me and it showed today as it did against ManUtd and Arsenal.

jedwards wrote:
It was a sad night indeed, however, it was expect it too, which it comes at the end of another disappoint and miserable season under Benitez, it is the third empty handed seasons in succession, and we are still far behind the top three elites of the league. We did not get nearer to them over the passed 9-10 seasons, during Houlier nor Benitez, apart from few cup successes during those years.

What I have noticed and expect that, Benitez will do yesterday, is to select a bizarre team for the most important match of the season, it was a weak first 11, which immediately has given Chelsea an overwhelming superlative control of match proceedings through out the whole match, Chelsea was a constant threat and they were capable of scoring more goals at anytime they went forward, our defence had to work overtime to reduce the goals margin, and at the opposite we were relaying totally on Torres the lone striker, who had no striking support at all, not from the useless Kuyt, who unfortunately had the best two good chances, but as expected he had foiled them both, and at the latter stages of the match, his beloved Benitez left him on and did not replace him, and in the end made him the main striker after taking off Torres, a move that had astonished S Gerrad and every LFC fan, only to hear later from Benitez that Torres was injured!!!!!!!!!!, how come his captain did not know about this fact, at the time Torres was on the field !!!!! Bizarre move from a very negative and wired manager.

This is not the first time Benitez has acted like this, last year in the Cup final against AC Milan, he did the same whereas, he opted to select his babe Kuyt (light weight and useless) ahead of Crouch to be his lone striker, and then all ended in handing the cup on plate to Milan. Benitez is a master tactician of boring and negative style of playing football, too many long balls, no pass and move, total relaying on individual players, there is no collective playing system in Benitez's book what so ever, he believes in striving out the opposition's game play, and hoping on opportunity to occur to allow his players to score, but this seldom does not happen against top opposition likes Chelsea, M.Utd, Arsenal, and others.

We must be honest and realistic with ourselves, that Benitez had really failed miserably by moving LFC forward and make them challenging for all top trophies in England and Europe alike, and this is a fact. Under his management, LFC team had become a very boring to watch and had opted a very negative style of football, and very much less productive in results, it is at odd with old style of football LFC teams used to play some 9 years ago or so, it is a very sad fact to accept, after all the hard work that the past maters of LFC managers had put in, which in fact they all made LFC teams of the passed era play productive attractive football styles, that most other clubs team of this modern era had opted to copy our old style of play then, simple play, simple passing game, pass and move, the kind of football that Chelsea had opted to use against us in yesterday match !!!!!!!!!!.

I am sorry I did say at beginning of the season that Benitez will end up this season empties handed as the previous seasons, despite all the huge money that he had spent, which is the majority of it was spend on a very average players, just in order to fit in with his wired style of play!!!! He is the manager, and he takes the full blame regardless of all the power struggle that had gone on in board room, and talk of removing him, etc. he is supposed to be a top draw professional football manger, as some claims, his job should be totally focused on preparing him players to play matches and win trophies, and in fact he had failed of doing so, therefore, his time and his position at LFC is very questionable now, his time is up, despite what I heard just recently, that he has a new shopping list he intends to present it to LFC board just to buy more average players at top prices, this is his track record so far, but no trophies?

jedwards wrote:....it comes at the end of another disappoint and miserable season under Benitez, it is the third empty handed seasons in succession,....

s@int wrote:We spent over £70million on transfers this season - which team spent more ?

s@int wrote:We spent over £70million on transfers this season - which team spent more ?