I think we will win the CL.

[thompsonsnose]

It's just the sort of bonkers shit we specialise in.

On our day etc...

[ZonkoVille77]

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I'm fucking wheezing here.

 

Nope.

[General Dryness]

Fuck it, I love this.

 

I'm all in on Old Big Ears.

[Grinch]

Was certain of it before the Coutinho sale. Now I'd be surprised to see us beat Porto.

 

You just cant rely on three players (all in the front three) and be consistent.

[Captain Turdseye]

I’d rather lose to Porto so we can concentrate on qualifying for next years group stage.

[niallers]

I’d rather lose to Porto so we can concentrate on qualifying for next years group stage.

Ah, the arsenal way! I like it

[thompsonsnose]

Was certain of it before the Coutinho sale. Now I'd be surprised to see us beat Porto.

 

You just cant rely on three players (all in the front three) and be consistent.

[Elite]

I’d rather lose to Porto so we can concentrate on qualifying for next years group stage.

We really have fallen into 'its not the winning that counts, it's the taking part.'

 

FSG cunts.

[Elite]

Our current best XI is better than 05 so you never know....

[Unrighteous]

Anything is possible.

[Trumo]

I remember telling somebody back in 2005 that I thought we had a genuine shot at winning this thing, and I got laughed at. Sure there were at least 3-4 sides better than us, but my reasoning was that we looked like one of those sides that just never went away. If the Greeks could win Euro 2004, then anything was possible. If a fat bastard like Shaun Murphy could win the World Snooker Championship after entering as a qualifier, then anything was possible.

[Pureblood]

Have their been any signs?  Coronation Street etc.?

 

No signs, no big ears. 

[El Rojo]

Alberto Moreno: ‘How am I doing, boss?’

 

Djimi Traore: ‘You’re doing a great job, son... a great job!’

[s(k)aturation]

It is more possible than in 2005, I think.

 

So I'm not ruling it out.

 

Front 3 would need a charmed, injury-free run... same Ox, who would have to play the games of his life... and same, VVD would need to be colossal.

 

I'll wait to get over Porto (if) and once it's the quarter finals, well, who knows.

 

I'm in.

[Pureblood]

If all five English clubs get through to the semis it doesn't bear thinking about.

[John101]

I think the team was more suited to cup football back then. For a start we actually won them.

 

Like Greece in the Euros, we were solid at the back and could build from there.

 

This team less so.

[Tony Moanero]

Our current best XI is better than 05 so you never know....

2005 Benitez > 2018 Klopp

[Chip Butty]

Porto are going to twat us. Won 15 drew 4 lost 0.

 

It's a big fat wankety wank 2nd to 4th place pen for us and that's it. Unless we win the central or fair play leagues of course.

[INTORRESTING]

Yep.

 

We have 2 legs to Keeganise any opponent.

 

Karius the hero in the pen shootout in the final.

[liverpoolsno9]

The Pope must be a worried man

[JohnnyH]

I put our chances of winning the European Cup this season right up there with our chances of winning the FA Cup this season too

[Anubis]

It's a cup competition. Anything can happen. Fuck it - yes we can.

[BenR_]

Think the 2005 team was a great knockout team. We weren't brilliant but defensively we were very solid & tactically disciplined. Rafa could set out that team to get a result anywhere, even if not a win. That wins you cup competitions. 

 

Our current group with the adventurous gung ho football and where pretty much all of our quality is concentrated in our front three is very different. I'm not optimistic. I'd just like us to beat Porto at this stage, think people take that for granted far too easily.

[aws]

Already booked flight and hotel.

[Guest Alex_K]

This 11 is not better than the '05 side. Megastar quality in Gerrard; Alonso, Hyppia, Carragher a top spine. Our fringe players may be better than the equivalents of that team -- the core of the side certainly not.

We benefit, however, from the lack this year of teams of the quality of Chelsea & Juventus (as examples) from that year. Its a pretty poor crop of European sides -- which makes the Coutinho sale unforgiveable.