Benfica (A) - UCL Quarter Final 1st leg, Tue 5th Apr 2022 (8:00pm)

[Bjornebye]

57 minutes ago, Harry Squatter said:

Hope the blind fella who lashed his stick at Diaz when he celebrated can find his way home. 

Must have been blind corner. There were about 20 of them on the pitch. 

 

(they were the poles from their Chelsea flags). Shame, good atmosphere as well tonight. Can understand them hating Diaz but fuck me, could have taken someones eye out. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

38 minutes ago, Leyton388 said:

Who was the bird on BT who said we have defensive frailties which city will exploit? 

 

Didn't realises we had frailties as we've not been conceding much. 

 

18 minutes ago, Aventus said:

Rachel Brown-Finnis

Former Liverpool goalie - but she went on to spend most of her career with Everton, so you'd expect her to be clueless about top-level football.

[TheHowieLama]

13 minutes ago, fungus said:

Oh does the vaccine prevent transmission now?

Negged for being the dumb fuck who took the bait.

[Torvald Utne]

Fair enough

[dockers_strike]

 

[TheHowieLama]

On 02/04/2022 at 13:58, Pureblood said:

No, I'm not trolling anyone.  If I was trolling, I would take the coronavirus stuff to multiple threads and cause bother that way.  I'm not interested in doing that.  I keep my shit to one thread, the very opposite of trolling.

 

1 hour ago, Pureblood said:

Djokovic (legend) doesn't win every match in straight sets, his opponent will put up a fight at some stage. 

[Reckoner]

31 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

 

Bejaysus, the standard of some of those questions! 

[3 Stacks]

We're obviously far better than them, but Benfica showed guts there. They made the game crazy after Konaté's unfortunate mistake. Nunez is very direct, was difficult to stop 1v1. He is for sure one to watch. Konaté was shaky but that's something that will happen sometimes with his youth and the way we defend.

 

Otherwise, players that stood out were Keita, Diaz and Trent. All awesome. Diaz is incredible. The 2nd goal is one of my favourites ever. Klopp's Liverpool to a tee with how quick we were after recovering the ball.

[3 Stacks]

Also, generally the difference this season for me is the healthy competition in the squad. Our best 11 is not that obvious anymore. Players come in and out and they mostly perform well. The signing of Diaz has changed a lot of things. 

[CapeRed]

7 hours ago, sir roger said:

He has underwhelmed on numerous occasions, but any criticism tonight is agenda driven.

I really want him to be the player I thought he was when we bought him. Last night I really didn't know whether he was right, left or central midfield. He really undid a lot of good work in winning the ball with a poor underhit pass. Certainly wasn't the lone culprit in the 2nd half  tho'.

[Captain Howdy]

8 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I think that would be you if you see him as some kind of hero for being too lazy to have injections to prevent the deaths of others. Feel free to have a strop and leave again if you like. You've even changed your username to incite others who arent selfish bastards.

Djokovic has his reasons for being unvaccinated and laziness is not one of them 

[gkmacca]

7 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Must have been blind corner. There were about 20 of them on the pitch. 

 

(they were the poles from their Chelsea flags). Shame, good atmosphere as well tonight. Can understand them hating Diaz but fuck me, could have taken someones eye out. 

It'll be interesting to see what, if any, action gets taken. They seem to slap a hefty fine on us if someone lights a flare. The kind of nonsense last night ought to get serious penalties.

[gkmacca]

8 hours ago, Leyton388 said:

Who was the bird on BT who said we have defensive frailties which city will exploit? 

 

Didn't realises we had frailties as we've not been conceding much. 

Exactly. Any time that crap gets argued they really should force the pundit to talk their way through our actual defensive record this season. The same as when they do the lazy criticism of Trent - ask them for specific examples, don't just let them repeat a claim that even that idiot Southgate seems to have accepted without question.

[Turkish Delight]

9 hours ago, Leyton388 said:

Who was the bird on BT who said we have defensive frailties which city will exploit? 

 

Didn't realises we had frailties as we've not been conceding much. 

I especially liked her insight when she was saying about how Jurgen shouldn't analyse where things went wrong in the game as we got the 3 points away from home.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

44 minutes ago, Turkish Delight said:

I especially liked her insight when she was saying about how Jurgen shouldn't analyse where things went wrong in the game as we got the 3 points away from home.

 

Hahahahaha

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, polymerpunkah said:

The ref was the MOTM, IMO. Not in the market for the bullshit, let the game flow, no cheap free-kicks, etc.

 

Impressed with Diaz, of course.

 

I don't know if it was that he didn't play on the week-end, or that he paced himself better, but it was great to see him running as hard in the 90th minute as he was in the first.

 

Can't be as wasteful on the week-end.

I thought the ref was excellent in the first half but got a bit picky in the second half. Still much better than those PL cunts though.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Watching back, with a little better finishing and without Konates whoopsie, that could have been a routine 5-0.

 

A decent performance, which is actually really good once you consider the context. 

 

Bricking it for Sunday now.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, Captain Howdy said:

Djokovic has his reasons for being unvaccinated and laziness is not one of them 

Which medical problem does Djokovic have?

[Elite]

2 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Which medical problem does Djokovic have?

Tennis elbow.

[Pete]

17 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Which medical problem does Djokovic have?

smugcuntitis. 

[Leyton388]

1 hour ago, Turkish Delight said:

I especially liked her insight when she was saying about how Jurgen shouldn't analyse where things went wrong in the game as we got the 3 points away from home.

Hahaha bloody hell. 

[Paulie Dangerously]

1 hour ago, Turkish Delight said:

I especially liked her insight when she was saying about how Jurgen shouldn't analyse where things went wrong in the game as we got the 3 points away from home.

3 goals conceded in 10. Last night, inter and Norwich. We've won 9 of them 

[Captain Howdy]

32 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Which medical problem does Djokovic have?

I’m sorry I’ve got absolutely no idea

[Scott_M]

Good performance and result. 
 

Getting in was a shambles last night. 
 

Firstly, you had to pick up your e-ticket from a Liverpool hotel in Lisbon. Matching the ticket, to peoples names and passports seemed unnecessary but LFC were clear on what was needed and some of our supporters obviously can’t read…

 

Anyway, onto the ground. Massive queues to get in for more passport and ticket name checks. Quite why this was needed when LFC did it all earlier in the day just seems undeniably stupid. 
 

The Lisbon Robocop brigade were out in force, some of them looking like they were itching to start twatting people. 
 

At kick off, I bet our end was only half full. 
 

After the game, no announcement we were being kept in so it seemed we were leaving but could only get to the concourse and they had to wait until precisely 10.30pm for them open exit which our whole end was forced out of, we were then frog marched by the Robocops back to the Metro. 
 

Completely ridiculous and un-necessarily and if it had kicked off, the Lisbon police would have caused it all themselves.  
 

Yesterday was a good day, it’s been a good trip, shit like this leaves a sour taste. They won’t be treated like that next week. 

 

[Bob]

10 hours ago, Pureblood said:

 What do people expect, for us to go out and steamroll every opponent for 90 minutes?  It isn't remotely realistic, especially in a CL quarter final. 

It’s possible, but to do so you have to play a style of football like city play, which suffocates the opposition, and personally I’d rather watch us every day of the week than watch that.