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LFC_fan wrote:This is it, the majority of us have been waiting anxiously for the arrival of this week and its finally here.

Confirmed team news :
~ Moro is confirmed out of tonite's game and Rafa's disappointed as he was planning on using moro at some point of the game (that was wat he said. how true was that statement, only Rafa himself knows)

~ Kewell played the last 30mins of yesterday's reserve game against leeds and came through unscathed but low chance that he'll be on the bench tonite.

~ Momo is back in contention for a starting place tonite after missing out of the berm game, hes fully recovered and raring to go, will be fighting with hamman for a place along alonso and gerrard.

~ Del Horno is back in training and rated at 50-50 to start tonite's game. Other than that, Chelsea has no major injury problems.

~ Jose Mourinho is an egoistic, attention grabbing @#$%@#... but then again, we all know that already...

Probable line ups for tonight's game

Liverpool

                            Reina

Finnan     hyppia        carra          Traore

                    Momo

  Garcia         Gerrard      alonso     Risse
 
                   Crouch

Subs : Carson Josemi Warnock FSP Zenden Cisse Whitbred

Chelsea

                         Cheh

Ferrira          Terry         Calvahlo     DelHorno/Gallas

                     Makelele

    FatFrank                   Essien

Duff                                    Robben
                   Crespo/Drogba

subs : cole SWP Cudicini Gallas Drogba / Crespo

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Will be a tight game tonight, dont be surprised that it ends up goal-less again or at most a 1-0 win for either side. But i expect us to just nick it, a Stevie goal just past the hour.

We havent been exactly playing breath-taking football as of late but somehow we seem to raise our game against bigger opponents and the only thing bigger than tonite's game is Maureen's ego.

Expect Chelski to be extremly tight at the back, with Rafa instructing Gerrard, Garcia and Risse to feed on Crouch's knock downs. Would be hard to play through the Chelsea backline and though Terry and Gallas / Calvaho arn't the fastest Centrebacks in the world, they're no slouches either.
Will be very hard to break down their defence but direct running at Terry and gang will help to unsettle them abit.
(remember Baros last season in the semi final? it led to Garcia's goal)  Thats also the reason i would like to see Cisse start but knowing Rafa, thats highly unlikely. More likely Cisse will come on sometime in the second half depending on the score.

Match analysis : We currently top the group with chelski and a win tonight will put us firmly in the driving seat. A draw is not bad either considering Chelski still have to travel to Spain and get a result there and we having already done that. The home match against Anderlect cant be any tougher than the one we had at Seville.

Many people say that Liverpool are only a one man team relying heavily on Gerrard. In my opinion, that is sadly true. HOWEVER, what people fail to realize is that when Gerrard is out suspended or injured, the rest of the team still carries themselves and achieve decent results. The problem is that when Gerrard is playing, too many of his team mates expect him / rely on him too much to rescue the team when the going gets tough. The problem exisits when Gerrard is playing but surprisingly is non-exisitance when Gerrard is not. Its time players like Zenden learn to pick themselves up and show everybody what they are capable of. Gerrard is world class and can win a match on his own, but the other 10 players have to believe in themselves as well.

Key men :
~ Gerrard nuff said

~ Reina : Its going to be a tight game and if he's going to make elementary mistakes like he did against Birm, then its gdbye 3 points. One mistake in goal will cost us the match.

~ Hamma / Sissko : whoever playing the midfield holding roll will have a hard time shutting out fat frank and essien, as well as spreading across the width to stop Robben / Duff

~ Terry : the chelski captain will be out wanting revenge after being reduced to tears at Anfield

~ crespo / Drogba : limiting the targetman for them to as few chances as possible will be the key to shutting them out.

My prediction : 1-0 to liverpool with Gerrard scoring a 25 yard screamer in the 63rd min. (Lampard to be sent off for a 2 footed tackle on Alonso) and 50000 REDs telling jose Maurinho to stfu with their fingers to their lips after Gerrard's screamer.

A good post mate, and thanks for the team news.

Also a big thanks from everyone at LFC for increasing the capacity for tonights game...the extra 5,000 will come in handy 

neil wrote:I f.uckin hate chelsea, cockney f.uckin f.uckwits. That k.nobhead cheeky lippy blurt of a manager is a f.uckin d.ickhead. lets do em.

great post! haha