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by **A.B.** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:15 pm

First I want to say that the Reds played a great game, Alonso was brilliant along with Garcia,Baros and Cisse. Alonso and Hamman are looking good in the midfield.

However Norwich City was only our pre-test without Steven Gerrard. The true test lies ahead, and that is Chelsea. Chelsea have only allowed one goal and that was against Southampton. They are a type of team who can score once and sit on that lead for the rest of the game with solid defending.

I was glad that Chelsea won against Middlesbrough because if they had another draw Mourinho would be frustrated and then Chelsea would be really eager to beat us at home, now things might be a bit different.

Chelsea will be propably one of our biggest challengers of the season, their defence is solid as a rock.

The thing that troubles me is two things one being Jerzy Dudek and the other being our defence during set pieces.

Against Chelsea I think that Christopher Kirkland should start, it would be a good game for him to get some action. We need our goalkeeper to be solid and our defence should not contain Finnan, at least not against Chelsea.

Hyypia is a good player but needs to step up even more along with the rest of our defencive players when we face the Blues because if we don't we will let a goal in and losing another game so soon after losing to Manchester United will be a blow.

Chelsea's strikers [Drogba,Kezman,Gudjohnsen,Mutu] haven't gelled with each other very well, the partnership up front hasn't been the best but they have managed to score in almost every game they've played. Their biggest win was 2-1 over Southampton and if Southampton can score against Chelsea I think we can as well.

This shouldn't be the time we get carried away. True we beat Norwich but they haven't won a game this season. I hope that our players and our manager have learned something from the game against Manchester United because Chelsea will be 10 times tougher, their defence is uncredibly solid and our players need to effort into this game and not slack off like we did against Manchester.

Great to bounce back but we have a huge challenge ahead of us, I would be happy with a draw and we need to improve our away record. 1 draw and 2 losses isn't the best even though we have the best home record in the Premiership so far.

by **A.B.** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:51 pm

So when Hustler posts something stupid within five minuts there are 30 replies, but when somebody else posts something realistic there are no replies. I find that interesting

by **shagasaurus80** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:53 pm

But you state the obvious

by **A.B.** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:01 pm

I was blinded for a second, did somebody post?

by **The_Rock** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:06 pm

A.B. wrote:So when Hustler posts something stupid within five minuts there are 30 replies, but when somebody else posts something realistic there are no replies. I find that interesting

it means that they are all celebrating getting drunk...... We just thrashed norwich dude......

Have to agree with you on chelsea. They really have a great defence & goalkeeper. Baros & Cisse have to be on form to beat to get past them & seeing how they have not really gelled, that will be tuff. I would be happy with a draw in that game.

by **jim_morrison_supported_liverpool** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:17 pm

no offence A.B. but you do tend to state the obvious,
the reason hustler gets so many replies is cos he chats that much nonsense he provokes outrage.

by **Leonmc0708** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:21 pm

A.B. wrote:So when Hustler posts something stupid within five minuts there are 30 replies, but when somebody else posts something realistic there are no replies. I find that interesting

It says a lot when you need to respond to yourself.

by **woof woof !** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:25 pm

A.B. wrote:I was glad that Chelsea won against Middlesbrough because if they had another draw Mourinho would be frustrated and then Chelsea would be really eager to beat us at home, now things might be a bit different.

Just what the fu ck does that mean

?

??

they wont try hard to win ?

having won against Boro they'll settle for a draw against us

explain

by **jim_morrison_supported_liverpool** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:37 pm

in all fairness woof he's sayin they would have been more wounded and hungry, therefore more fired up against us, if they didnt get a result at boro.
i think that makes sense

by **woof woof !** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:34 pm

Fair enough , but I think that's a pretty naive view . Any team that is serious about winning the premiership will be fired up for almost EVERY match and certainly one against Liverpool .

by **jim_morrison_supported_liverpool** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:38 pm

there's no denying there would have been more pressure on them to beat us if they didnt get a result at boro. every team is motivated but outside pressure increases when results go bad.

by **woof woof !** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:49 pm

I understand what your saying Jim, equally you could argue that if they had lost to Boro their confidence would have taken a knock and that perhaps the pressure you feel may then have made them more dangerous could in fact have had a negative effect on their game.
Personally I feel the more a team wins the better they play and therfore their win against Boro has not helped our 'cause. We could go round and round on this one but what the fu ck , we'll beat them anyway .

by **jim_morrison_supported_liverpool** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:57 pm

yes it could so i'll take you up on the other point:
yes i reckon we'll beat them tw@ts aswell.
would love it

by **A.B.** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:08 pm

jim_morrison_supported_liverpool wrote:no offence A.B. but you do tend to state the obvious

I should state the obivious to remind you what happened last week. We beat Bromich, beat Monaco and lost to Manchester United. We all wanted to beat Man Utd, we thought that Utd were done for but that bit us in the a$$.

We had a good game but a challenge lies ahead of us so don't get all worked up about it because if that happens then the ones who got their hopes up will be the same one complaining when we don't play good and saying that we suck.

by **The_Rock** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:45 pm

jim_morrison_supported_liverpool wrote:yes it could so i'll take you up on the other point:
yes i reckon we'll beat them tw@ts aswell.
would love it

well i think we would most likely draw the match but who knows, since hasselbank is not playing for chelsea......

He always seems to score against us.

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