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[A.B.]

Thanks for that info Sabre.

[dward]

Has garcia scored twice?    

[L-type]

yes!!  luis in the 10th and 18th

[Erica]

He has just scored a hat trick. Not bad!

[Erica]

And now, it is Morientes who has just scored. 5-1 to Spain

[A.B.]

Wasn't it Garcia's poor pass that led to Slovakia scoring a goal?

[Garymac]

Luis hs banged a hat trick in hahaha put that in ye pipe and fu*king smoke it Judge and yes the whole world will see it.

Take a fu*king bow Luis 

Read today that Luis was starting as was alonso and i thought it was just the press putting pressure on the reds players so if they didnt qualifiy then they could barrack us even more, well fu*king suck a fa*t out of all are spainish players ar$es.

But i expect no less from the MIRROR.

[A.B.]

Gary, Alonso started on the bench again but Garcia did start. Hopefully these goals will help Garcia's and Nando's confidence.

[Garymac]

Oh, cheers A.B, made up for Luis though, to be honest hes followed up a couple of good displays for us with this and it can only be good for us, the english and spanish lads are gonna be buzzing!

[A.B.]

Good stuff from our players today [Gerrard included], but I just hope that they can perform next weekend. I'm praying for no injuries

[azriahmad]

Garcia scored three and lost possession which led to the Slovakian goal. I haven't seen the game, but with Morrientes also scoring, it will undoubtedly do them a lot of good.

Sabre, what do the Spanish press and the football fans think of Liverpool's Spanish contingent? I'm just curious.

[drummerphil]

I've wondered that myself,although i can imagine after tonight the Spanish public are quite impressed.

[azriahmad]

You saw the game? Our players did not play all too well, despite 2 of them scoring 4 goals?

I think Alonso has improved a lot in this season as comaperd to last season. He distributes the ball well and starts attacking moves and he also does a lot in tackling and defending. The most improvement has come from his scoring. Although, IMHO, his long passes so far this season has been less exquisite and less accurate, or is it just because he is trying more hopeful long balls wide a bit too much.

[drummerphil]

I didnt see the game but was assuming that 4 goals out of 5 were scored by Liverpool players and this would go down well with the spanish public.

[Sabre]

I come back now from the bar.

Drummerphil:  It was a Liverpool 5 - 1 Slovakia, the penalty was provoked by Luis Garcia too.

Luis Garcia has this brilliant moments that make you love him, but then he starts doing things that put your nerves on. He was in the middle, and decided to make an unexpected, unuseful pass to the keeper that became a perfect assist for Slovakia.

The first thought is that you cannot but congratulate a player that has made a hat trick, but I also reckon that this kind of mistakes will be paid dearly in a quarter of finals against Italy or England. Since he definitely can improve this mistakes (it's decissions!) we must remind him he's not Maradona. Anyway I liked more things from him than the goals. He broke their line defence with diagonal balls once and again. He didn't play as a classic winger, but like a "free role", (1)you could see him in the left, in the right, and sometimes as a second striker. Aragones has stated that he could be a perfect second striker after the match (and if a ball is to be wasted better on the area of the opponent than in the middle, right?), any thoughts about if this would work for Liverpool?


I was specially happy for Morientes, he headed well the cross of Vicente, he seemed very happy.

I won't rate Alonso, he did well, but cannot extract many conclussions from a game that it was already solved and with an opponent with the head dropped.

Well, seems that we'll be in Germany. Now the traditional overconfidence on the team, and the traditional failure in the critical moment. You'll see.

Xabi Alonso will be in the starting eleven in Bratislava, since Albelda got a yellow card. I think he'll be in the starting eleven of Germany. He has been so far, only a yellow card ban avoided to be in the starting eleven in previous match.

Sabre

(1) Needless to say or right back did little forward runs and Albelda was his bodyguard, otherwise it would be a mess.