chelsea league cup semi final first leg thread

[Brigant Moloch]

good game, great 2nd half. Coutinho, Sterling & Sakho immense, Can excellent bar pen, midfield, GK, Moreno & Skrtel solid, Lazar worked his arse off, basically covered whole right side on his own.

[RazorBack]

After watching a lot of James Bond movies I can understand the hatred for Mourinho. One is 100% class, other is 0%. 

 

Good performance, but we need results (=goals). And still our defence is shaky..

[Tyler Durden]

We played well and deserved more despite the refs best efforts.

Case in point Gerrard makes exactly the same tackle on Hazard that Luiz Felipe made 5 minutes earlier and which one gets a fucking card

[Frankenhooker]

Can't complain about that. Great performance, lacked a cutting edge, but we completely dominated Chelsea. If by some stroke of luck Sturridge gets fit and we play like this, I fancy our chances.

 

Can was clumsy for the penalty, but I thought he flawless apart from that, in fact all the defence looked great helped out by Lucas.

 

Frustrated we only drew.

 

[Baltar]

A really good performance, deserved the win. Play like that with Sturridge in the team and we'd easily have won that game. Promising signs of late, we could be in for a more enjoyable second half of the season.

[Stickman]

That bitter fucking prick hasn't even got the decency to stay for the whistle and shake hands .

What a pure cunt

Grotesque individual won't be picked up by the media , the sooner the poisonous cunt fucks off the better although no other country would kiss his arse like here that's why he came back

[bossy]

Pissed off I couldn't watch this. Second half sounded like we were great on 5 live. Unlucky reds.

[Dr. J]

Excellent second half, highlighted by one moment of individual brilliance. Was impressed with several of our players who showed some real toughness and the will to win out there. First time I've seen Coutinho actually take a game in hand, think he tired badly late, however. Can was strong throughout, too.

[Red Banjo]

Fucking state of Herman Munster there.

 

What a bell

[The Guest]

I've never had a player just completely change my opinion in such a short period of time. Markovic is ridiculous. His passes around the corner are intelligent, he always takes the right option and he's 20. Everything he does just oozes class. We've got an absolute star in the making here.

[Frankenhooker]

20 attempt to 2, Chelsea with one shot on target, the penalty. Courtois man of the match. Sums it up.

[magicrat]

sky cunts cant even bring themselves to give a Liverpool player the MOM after a performance like that against 12 men  

[The Guest]

Pissed off I couldn't watch this. Second half sounded like we were great on 5 live. Unlucky reds.

We were fucking brilliant.

[ratcatcher]

Unlucky not to win that 3-1 in the end considering we were playing atkinson and 11 other twats.

[Tyler Durden]

Spawny cunts have got another top keeper for 10 years

[J-V]

Grotesque individual won't be picked up by the media , the sooner the poisonous cunt fucks off the better although no other country would kiss his arse like here that's why he came back

That's why Ihe Portuguese rat wont fuck off.

[Adebisi]

Shame we couldn't get the other goal or two the performance deserved. Could very well be a different story in the second leg unless they rest a few with an eye on City.

Ref was shit. They would have got every decision we didn't tonight at Stamford Bridge

 

[an tha]

That is a pleasing display against a horrible but very good team, we bossed them, kept going and should have scored more. It shows we are much improved and look a good side again....but not being clinical enough is still a problem especially against the best teams. Can't help but feel no matter how well we played those twats are the happier at the end and big favourites to go through, we could and should have made things different.

[Red House]

Might not be a bad result to be fair. With a one-goal lead, we would probably have gone into the second leg hoping to sit back and hold on, which we are absolutely shit at. At least now, with their away goal advantage we will go there knowing we have to score. Possession football is our only hope really, even though I seriously doubt they are going to sit back and allow us the possession like they did today.

[stringvest]

We need to build on this performance now.  The really pleasing thing for me was that everyone played well, and we really came on strong - I thought we were lacking in a bit of courage in the first half, but the second half we had everyone prepared to take responsibility and committing to making attempts on goal.  Great to see Sterling and Coutinho playing so well together, and Markovic again put in an heroic shift.  The CBs were great too.  Everyone played well. 

[magicrat]

That's why Ihe Portuguese rat wont fuck off.

He's a pantomime villain that learnt winding up opponents and moaning about refereeing decisions pays dividends from Ferguson 

[Dr. J]

A performance like this, against their best side in a cup tie, no less, makes me believe we are good enough to win the EL. That's with a true goal scorer in the team, mind, but rumour is we actually do have one, somewhere.

[JermainePennant]

Very good performance dominating a strong chelsea side, it will be a good confidence boost for players like coutinho who made matic look average and Moreno who was having a field day on the left, jose brought azpi on in the end to man mark him.

 

Sterling was very good also and as I said before the match players running at the chelsea cbs would hurt them, I like the system tonight as chelsea tried to play compact to deal with the two in the middle but that left space out wide for us, its difficult for a team to deal with us if our players are on form.

 

Will be a tight second leg but if we are level with them on the hour mark I see us going through.

[billypilgrimnz]

Why people get so wound up by Mourinho, I have no idea. He's so easily ignored. 

[an tha]

Might not be a bad result to be fair. With a one-goal lead, we would probably have gone into the second leg hoping to sit back and hold on, which we are absolutely shit at. At least now, with their away goal advantage we will go there knowing we have to score. Possession football is our only hope really, even though I seriously doubt they are going to sit back and allow us the possession like they did today.

The Portuguese rat has made it quite clear what they intend to do and what they wanted to do tonight in his interview, there. It will be the same - looking to get it forward quickly on the counter to expose our three. He was lamenting their passing tonight on a couple of occasions when they did break. They'll break with more pace and bodies at home but that might help us as well if we can keep them out and hit them.