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Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:53 pmby rocky29
alot of you are slating aquilani. but i still say rafa has handled him wrongly. and when he has played hes looked class. watched the sunderland game again and he totally ran the show. thats style of play that day suited us down to the ground?
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:54 pmby tonyeh
woof woof ! wrote:Those that are anticipating a fairly easy passage against Benfica may be in for an abrupt wake up call.
Absolutely.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:58 pmby The_Rock
This is it............Its time for agger to shine as a left back. I for one will be missed if benitez brings macherano to RB and moves johnson to LB.
Reina
Johnson Carra Kra Agger
Kuyt Gerrard Mascherano Benayoun
Aqua
Torres
This is the team to beat benfica....no lucas pls.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:09 pmby bigmick
tonyeh wrote:woof woof ! wrote:Those that are anticipating a fairly easy passage against Benfica may be in for an abrupt wake up call.
Absolutely.
I agree with that, this lot showed enough in the first leg to indicate they are a good team and it won't be easy. IMHO what we musn't do (and I'm sure won't lol) is get drawn into an open game with them, making the same mistake as both Arsenal and the Mancs made.
It ought to be right up Rafa's street this, us trying to nick one and strangle the life out of the game. My guess is it'll be tense and nervous but we'll scrape home 1-0, probably with a goal deflected of Kuyt's erse.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:11 pmby account deleted by request
woof woof ! wrote:Those that are anticipating a fairly easy passage against Benfica may be in for an abrupt wake up call.
Given our defensive frailties Benfica are more than capable of scoring at least once . I know we went down to ten men in the first leg but we're gonna have to put in a far better performance than the one we gave in Lisbon if were gonna get anything out of this game.
You may be right Woof, but I didn't see anything when we played over there to cause me much worry mate. Different game tonight of course , but I am hopeful that if we perform anything like we know we can, it will be a routine win rather than one of our famous trying to come back from the dead encounters.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:59 pmby Dundalk
0-0 Half Time
1-0 Full Time
Through on away goals but with a bit of a sweat
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:22 pmby woof woof !
s@int wrote:woof woof ! wrote:Those that are anticipating a fairly easy passage against Benfica may be in for an abrupt wake up call.
Given our defensive frailties Benfica are more than capable of scoring at least once . I know we went down to ten men in the first leg but we're gonna have to put in a far better performance than the one we gave in Lisbon if were gonna get anything out of this game.
You may be right Woof, but I didn't see anything when we played over there to cause me much worry mate. Different game tonight of course , but I am hopeful that if we perform anything like we know we can, it will be a routine win rather than one of our famous trying to come back from the dead encounters.
I think you're underestimating Benfica Saint. When they opened up in the first leg, with us down a man and Insua completely at sea, I thought we were completely over run and lucky not to have conceded more than we did.
Hopefully Benfica won't have the character to perform as well without their home support but they are a talented crew, if we give them a chance they're more than capable of exploiting it.
Hopefully we'll manage to keep 11 players on the field ( 
Mascherano ! )
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:30 pmby Greavesie
All eyes on Di Maria then, hes been linked with £25m moves all over the place
Given how the rest of England has performed in Europe this week, any result that gets us through will keep me happy
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:13 pmby Rockthekop
He was the player that stood out, he could easily walk into the Liverpool team....hmmm then again so could most of the Aston Villa squad 
I would love just one quality winger. Babel and Kuyt cost around 20m, that would have a bought a good winger.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:23 pmby leep33
Hopefully tonight he will go with an attacking line up and we get at them from the start.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:50 pmby bigmick
leep33 wrote:Hopefully tonight he will go with an attacking line up and we get at them from the start.
I honestly think it would be suicide if we did that. Nice and cagey for me, rely on Torres getting a goal and defend for our lives.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:54 pmby bigmick
Anybody know the team? Here's mine:
Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Babel, Lucas, Masherano, Kuyt, Gerrard, Torres.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:00 pmby account deleted by request
bigmick wrote:Anybody know the team? Here's mine:
Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Babel, Lucas, Masherano, Kuyt, Gerrard, Torres.
That team has 1-0 written all over it mate. I went for a more adventurous line up that would have definitely seen us win 4-1.
BTW Babel can't play tonight ....... some just say he can't play and leave it at that!
Neither can Insua
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:06 pmby ruskiy playmaker
bigmick wrote:leep33 wrote:Hopefully tonight he will go with an attacking line up and we get at them from the start.
I honestly think it would be suicide if we did that. Nice and cagey for me, rely on Torres getting a goal and defend for our lives.
Looks like Rafa brainwashed you.
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Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:11 pmby account deleted by request