Posted:
Fri May 02, 2008 2:31 pm
by josip84
Judge's post at 14:09 on this thread is an absolute disgrace.
I do hope every sensible LFC fan will feel ashamed to share their love of their club with such a so-called mate.
Is Judge Oswald Mosley's re-incarnation?
Posted:
Fri May 02, 2008 2:44 pm
by god_bless_john_houlding
woof woof ! wrote:god_bless_john_houlding wrote:So go and cry yourself to sleep because no matter how much money you have, you can't compete with Liverpool Football Club. We let you win yesterday. Do you think the Liverpool players really wanted to go through all that trouble of travelling to Moscow? Not in a million years. They've done that. They've been to two european cup finals, we didn't want to look greedy.
Jeezuz H Christ. Thats just f'ucking embarrassing even by your standards.
are you really that stupid or are you just a total prick who criticises for the fun of it? anybody with half a brain cell (which obviously rules you out) could see it's not to be taken seriously. It's called playing it down, to show it doesn't affect us. We all know it does, but it's called playing it down.
Now I'm going to say water is dry. Go take a bath to see if that's the case. Then come back and tell me, but don't take the plug out of the bath. Then once you've told me if water is dry or not, jump back in the bath, hold your head under the water for 20 minutes and await the outcome. Good lad.
Posted:
Fri May 02, 2008 2:49 pm
by Slisko
I want United to beat Chelski,but sometimes I want Chelsea to beat United... I don`t know really, I hate them both,probably
Posted:
Fri May 02, 2008 3:07 pm
by god_bless_john_houlding
haven't you had your bath yet woof? don't forget, 20 minutes under the water and await the outcome.
Posted:
Fri May 02, 2008 11:18 pm
by LFC2007
Devastated still, but, my observations:
1) To go 1-0 down after an inept first-half performance*, we showed immense character and belief to come back and equalise. We didn't have many opportunities up to that point, but when the chance we'd been looking for came it was dispatched - on such chances rest games, and trophies. It was our lifeline to reach the final. Unassuming at times, but ruthless - Torres.
2) Having equalised, the game was there for the taking - it was open. We tried, we pushed, but we perhaps didn't have that little bit of ruthless quality in certain areas** to kill the tie with a second. Gerrard failed to influence the game, and Torres lacked quality support - of the Joe Cole mould.
3) Extra-time, Chelsea had the better of us. After the disallowed goal from Essien, we should've kept possession as best we could for a spell, but we didn't. Sami isn't the quickest now and he made a badly timed tackle on Ballack. It was the high of the Essien goal being disallowed, that was followed so quickly by the penalty that fucking depresses me. It's a killer thinking about it, if only we'd have kept the ball for a little while and recovered our shape we may have got to the final. The psychological blow of the high and low in quick succession damaged us immensely IMO, and probably contributed to their third. Drogba's goal was brilliantly executed, but there's no way that cross should've got through, and Carra probably should've done better in trying to unsettle him, although I can forgive him as one of his limitations is his pace and quickness to the ball. In a very dangerous area, against a striker whose main strength is pace and directness, this was ominous.
In summary, we gave a valiant account of ourselves, and not many teams will match us for making the Champions' League exciting. Ironically, we broke the 'hoodoo' of having not scored there since Cheyrou, by scoring two goals, but came away defeated, and out of the competition. I hope we can put it behind us and focus on getting the right players in now, for next season. It's an opportunity to really plan well for next season, we don't have any distractions vis-a-vis the UCL, and these extra three weeks may give us an edge over the Manc's and Chelsea in the transfer market - if we're ruthless enough.
*Our ball retention in the top half of pitch was well below par - partly down to nerves it must be said, but also further evidence of our need to get players who are more comfortable on the ball in situations with little time to think and move. It was very pressurised, and they pressed very well, we didn't function well in that environment. Second half, they let us have it more, they didn't press with the same focus or intent. As a consequence we were able to get that crucial chance - you could see something was coming.
**Wings/full backs again, Kuyt was poor, Benayoun did well in putting Torres in, but lacked any real goal threat, pace and power. If you compare Chelsea - Joe Cole and Kalou are technically much better, they're pacier, powerful and pose a strong goal threat.
Posted:
Sat May 03, 2008 1:17 am
by SundanceKid
Why does everyone question Torres' substitution? He thought he injured himself
Posted:
Sat May 03, 2008 11:39 pm
by Thingy
Sorry to bring this up again but I just wana throw my tuppence worth in. Havnt had a chance up until now. Short and sweet, we did brilliantly imo, scored 2, unlucky, or just bad mistakes cost us. Realistically though we are not near Chelsea , Man U standard. 3 world class players and 2 very good ones needed if we are to be there. Were not too far off in other areas, just that quality lacks. Well done though lads, you did us proud.
YNWA