Villarreal (A) - UCL Semi Final 2nd leg, Tue 3rd May 2022 (8:00pm)

[JagSquared]

We bloody love to make it dramatic.

 

Can we just have the equivalent of a cuppa tea and a couple of custard creams in the final. Just a relaxing and satisfying moment.

 

on to Paris! 

[gkmacca]

1 minute ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Dick Emery was berry berry gracious there.

And he looks like Doddy. He's a one man tribute to English comic heritage.

 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, J-V said:

Couldn't hear fuck all on my stream for his interview

He was sound.

 

 

 

Their fans didn't fancy the second half.... did they?! Even before we scored they were nowhere near like the first half. 

[gkmacca]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

He was sound.

He was low sound.

[JagSquared]

btw I’ve got to be better at planning holidays I’m away for the CL final again.

had to watch the Madrid game at a

taqueria in Costa Rica. Spurs I had to watch on my phone at a wedding in Sofia. This year I’ll be in Oslo. 

[Caramac]

[El Rojo]

The BT Sports lads going with the overly simplistic angle that Diaz changed the game and has to start the final, ignoring the fact that those who were most awful in the first half turned their game around significantly after the break - Trent, Robbo, Keita, Thiago. Diaz is excellent, we know that, and he may well start the final, but it's lazy punditry for me. 

[coachpotato]

Another game where we didn’t start playing until the second half! At least Villarreal have given us a lesson to be at it from the first whistle, especially at this time of the season when you’re likely to play a team better than Villarreal that might well have been out of sight. 
A few redeemed themselves in that second half, (and they needed to!) but Alisson, Konate and Mane were the only players who looked at it in the first half, even Virgil was iffy and I do wonder sometimes if he’s not as vocal or commanding as he should be when he has the armband? A team as good as ours shouldn’t have to rely on a team talk at half time to sort things out, they should be sorting it on the pitch way before then or they could be dead and buried and that’s where the captain should be leading.

Diaz definitely made a difference when he came on (what a signing by the way!) but Villarreal not being as dynamic also helped, but I felt they wouldn’t keep that level of press up because they probably don’t play that way usually, and because of both of those factors, we took command in the second half and saw it through in the manner we all thought we would.

So, hopefully this helps us with so much at stake at this point, giving the players that belief that we are never beaten, that everything is possible.

Allez, Allez!!

[Carvalho Diablo]

4 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

And he looks like Doddy. He's a one man tribute to English comic heritage.

 

I still think he's more of a Ray Reardon tbh.

 

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

He was low sound.

 

Eben so 

[an tha]

European Cup: In final

Premier League: 1 point off lead with 4 games left.

FA Cup: In final

League Cup: Winners

 

 

Fucking hell.

 

Just drink it in.

[Bjornebye]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Fuck off Reardon 

 

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

I still think he's more of a Ray Reardon tbh.

 

 

 

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

 

 

Needs more peas.

[KMD7]

1 hour ago, Caramac said:

 

 

That pass from Naby to Sadio was Thiagoesque. 

[Red Shift]

[Razoray]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

2 in 3 with Rafa too. Our tournament.

Read earlier that this year is the 25th time that Liverpool have entered the European cup/champions league and have reached the final 10 times. Some record

[Vincent Vega]

 

[sir roger]

Brave move by Emery to court publicity while being on a witness location programme.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

Not even going to acknowledge the yard dogs and their referee mate.  

We won another game, we're in another massive final, and we deserve to be there ahead of any other team in Europe and the world. 

[polymerpunkah]

Emery should have spent half time watering the pitch and just told his side "more of the same, boys" as they came back out.

 

Fantastic response by LFC, but what did he think he'd win by allowing them to control the ball?

 

The initial lack of control reminded me a bit of the first half of the 2-2 vs City.

 

Hopefully Klopp comes up with the answer; if it's City in the final I can see more of the same (pressure).

[Anubis]

This is classy.

 

 

 

[s(k)aturation]

 

Was sitting rather self-satisfied and smug late in the game... and cast my mind back to the doom and gloom in the first few months of last year.

 

And this crazy thought emerged, that we might not be anywhere near Paris, if it weren't for a last minute goal scored against a relegated team.  

 

By our goalkeeper.

 

Funny old world.

 

 

[Reckoner]

There’s been some great photos this season, but this has to be the cutest.

 

[gkmacca]

26 minutes ago, Anubis said:

This is classy.

 

 

 

Really classy.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Caramac said:

 

 

When Fab gets that ball and glances across the line, he puts the keeper in two minds and makes sure he's not fully prepared for the shot. Everyone's saying (probably correctly) that the keeper is shit, but I reckon Fab stitched him up expertly there.