Liverpool V Chelsea (CL Semi Final, Anfield)

[Rashid]

Lets put everything about the game in this thread.

 

Normally I think we should attack them but that would be playing into their hands, lets not forget both teams need a 1-0 win so I think we should play it cagey until late into the second half.

 

With the away goals rule it is best to score late and given them less chance to get back. On the other hand, we should also take advantage of the crown and go for their throat in first 20 mins!

 

Fucking in hell I am shitting bricks already.

[Dirk]

Lets put everything about the game in this thread.

 

Normally I think we should attack them but that would be playing into their hands, lets not forget both teams need a 1-0 win so I think we should play it cagey until late into the second half.

 

With the away goals rule it is best to score late and given them less chance to get back. On the other hand, we should also take advantage of the crown and go for their throat in first 20 mins!

 

Fucking in hell I am shitting bricks already.

 

 

We need to scare the shit out of them vocally and in terms of the tempo the game is played at. They will be looking to slow play down. Makalele will have to be at his boring best if they are going to nullify us. Fat man will be high up the pitch but if Didi does his best he will be able to do to him what Makalele hopes to do to us. That aside I think that it is horses for courses. As long as we aren't scared of conceding then we will be ok. If we are scared of conceding we will sit back and be frightened to attack and that is what will fuck us up. We need eleven warriors tomorrow.

[Jezzman]

If it goes to penalties, I'm not sure I have the stomach to watch it :eek:

[Dirk]

If it goes to penalties, I'm not sure I have the stomach to watch it :eek:

 

If they win on penalties and Cech saves one or two then the headline on one of the tabloids will be "Cech mate".

[Red Nick]

If it goes to penalties, I'm not sure I have the stomach to watch it :eek:

 

if it goes to penalties we will lose, so its best we win 2-0 in ordinary time.

[kop]

Lets put everything about the game in this thread.

 

Normally I think we should attack them but that would be playing into their hands, lets not forget both teams need a 1-0 win so I think we should play it cagey until late into the second half.

 

With the away goals rule it is best to score late and given them less chance to get back. On the other hand, we should also take advantage of the crown and go for their throat in first 20 mins!

 

Fucking in hell I am shitting bricks already.

 

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think thats the way to approach this. If we play it safe until late into the second half I actually think we will hand it to them in terms of confidence and control. What we need to do is to be all over them from the start and go for one or two goals in the first 30 min, like we did Juve. We need to use Anfield for what it's worth (and that's a lot in this kind of game).

[chorlton]

Its us vs Team Evil, shoalin soccer style.

 

I want us to tear them apart. If we get caught on the counter so be it. I think all they will want to do for the first 20 mins is weather the storm anyway plus it gets our players settled on the ball, more important than ever without Xabi. If we sit back it tends to stick for the duration of the game.

[Salte]

I hope we'll come out of the blocks as we did agianst Juve and Leverkusen at home, throwing everything at them for the first 30-40 mins (as long as the players can take it). If that gives us an adavantage we should soak up the pressure and hit them on the break with Cisse, Riise, Garcia and Gerrard for the rest of the game. If not its nailbiting time.

[BatChainPuller]

Its us vs Team Evil, shoalin soccer style.

 

I want us to tear them apart. If we get caught on the counter so be it. I think all they will want to do for the first 20 mins is weather the storm anyway plus it gets our players settled on the ball, more important than ever without Xabi. If we sit back it tends to stick for the duration of the game.

 

Agree we should hit them early with the high tempo stuff but also keep something in the tank for the last fifteen - they seem to really fade out towards the end - I thought we could have nicked a goal or two late in the first leg if we had gone for it a bit more.

[Brownie]

I reckon we should just go for broke, just like the league game earlier in the season. We were all over them and if it wasn't for a bent ref then we'd have gotten ourselves in front.

 

I hope to see the high tempo style that we showed against Juve.

[Nunavut Patrick]

I reckon we should just go for broke, just like the league game earlier in the season. We were all over them and if it wasn't for a bent ref then we'd have gotten ourselves in front.

 

I hope to see the high tempo style that we showed against Juve.

 

There's an old saying in Quebec during the Duplessis Years- vote early and vote often.

 

 

Score early and score often.

 

The longer it goes 0-0, the more of an edge they have.

[Red Nick]

SSN reckon Kewell & Cisse have been training together today and so has Didi and Stevie so that looks like the combinations

[Kopite]

I reckon we should just go for broke, just like the league game earlier in the season. We were all over them and if it wasn't for a bent ref then we'd have gotten ourselves in front.

 

I hope to see the high tempo style that we showed against Juve.

 

Just got to be wary as Chavski's strength is the counter-attack.

[Brownie]

Just got to be wary as Chavski's strength is the counter-attack.

 

Yeah I agree but Juve's strength was on the counter as well. Juve did get chances against us when we went at them but thats the risk you take. Put it this way, we've got a far better chance of beating Chelsea if we go at them because if we try to beat them tactically we'll struggle due to their defensive strength.

[Evil_Ways]

They havent experienced Anfield on a European night.

Take advantage of that and go for the kill like we did against Juventus.

This should beat anything we've seen/heard/experienced in a long damn time atmosphere wise.

 

God damn Eidur, i know it's easy to say now, but with Alonso playing i would have been convinced of a win.

But nevermind that now, fuckin murder them.

[MLB]

I reckon this game might be just as tight as the last one, as neither side will want to give anything away early. I can see a goalless first half unless someone does something out of the ordinary (scores from 35 yards, for example), and I think that'll probably suit them more than us. I don't have a very good feeling about the game to be honest, and I'll be surprised if they don't dive and cheat their way to victory somehow.

[Street Preacher]

I've just saw the press conference with Rafa.What a wankshaft that reporter was who kept going on about Mourinho being the best manager in the world.

[Rashid]

A world class post - "BLUE IS THE COLOUR" BY JOHN MAC OF RAWK

 

Days like tomorrow only come along every blue moon.

 

A long, long season has been littered with disappointment and a more than good chance that we won't even be in the champions league next season, let alone winning it. Things have been dire in places, ecstatic in others. The European trail has been littered with highs as much as the domestic one has been a catalogue of lows and mediocrity, the notion of finishing below the toffees is simply beyond comprehension, in my lifetime they have only ever finished above us with good teams, teams capable of winning the league, the thought of the Ferguson's, Stubbs, Pistone's and Yobo's of this world capturing a place above Gerrard, Morientes, Carragher and Alonso defies belief.

 

I know that we have been unlucky and that the manager is putting his first steps on a new and exciting trail, but I would have thougfht there was more chance of us winning the European cup than the toffees finishing above us, and chances of winning the European Cup, absolutely fucken none. How can we have had such contrasting fortunes? How can the players who struggled at home to Portsmouth perform so effortlessly and magnificently in Turin?

 

I think the answer to that question will be giving the manager nightmares, but thoughts must turn towards the atmosphere that we appear to be able to generate for nights like Barcelona, Roma, Olympiakos and Juventus and the one that we see every other Saturday at Anfield. If we can give the players the stage to perform they will perform better, cometh the moment, cometh the man and all that bullshit.

 

In all liklihood the atmosphere tomorrow will be better than even those that preceded it earlier in the season, town will be bouncing tomorra, no doubt. Those lucky enough to travel up with blue colours on will see what the atmosphere should be like for a European semi and not that funeral dirge we witnessed in West London last week. I mean fuckinell they won the league last weekend and the feverpitch was errrr....................... sitting in front of the telly singing the owners name, what the fuck is that all about. Imagine Shankly's face with the Kop singing about TV Williams after we won the league or the European Cup going round the city to the tune of "there's only one John Smith", imagine Wembley 86 to the tune of a Peter Robinson ditty, these cunts have got no identity, they don't know what they are or who they are, and none of them know how to fuckin celebrate.

 

A victory for the reds is a victory for football and for the fans who have travelled the length and breadth of the country and beyond doing everything they can supporting their team. I remember going to Chelsea in the early seventies while they were busy trying to bankrupt themselves building a big fuck-off stand, Peter Cormack's header buried the soft cunts though. I remember them trying to twat us in the cup but coming unstuck and that wanker Ken Bates buying the place for fuck all and then begging all and sundry to "Save the Bridge", a couple of years later the same cunts were trying to electrify us!

 

Tomorrow is for us, for Rafa and the lads. We can win it, we've got a chance and Anfield can only help, but we will have to be fucken patient, remember how late it came against Roma and Olympiakos? These cunts think there through already, they're planning the business class flights already while we're checking out how long it is by train from Bucharest to Istanbul- who cares?

 

Its twenty years since the last time we had one of these at Anfield and, in all probability, a lot longer since we had one as big. I can't ever remember us going out coming back to Anfield having not lost away, history is on our side. Town will be absolutely fucken bouncing tomorra afternoon in anticipation of the night, while we can win, aqnd god I hope we fucken do, it won't be the end of the world if we don't, we have come so far and done it together- the players, the manager and the fans- for the lads on the pitch to the back row of the centenary, every one can do their bit and everybody has.

 

Chelsea, my fucken arse, its about wedge, fuck all else. No class, no heart, no balls, just a fucken big load of money that some Russian twat saw from a chopper. These twats are the atipathy of everything that it means to be red, not just the fucken money they spend, we have hardly been paupers over the years but there every move, it reeks of evrything that is wrong in the game.

 

From Tommy Docherty to the Portuguese Pimp everything about the place stinks, from Mickey Droy to Kerry Dixon, they're donkeys with big expectations. OK they've got a good team, a very good team that has won the league very easily, but they have become a more universal enemy than even United with their Chelsea fucken Village and their total lack of class, badgering referees and snidey tactics.

 

Think about the manager who delivered the big eared cup to its spiritual home on the Mersey, a quietly spoken man from the North East of England, a man who always put others first, whose very life and being was built around the virtues and fortunes of Liverpool Football Club. Compare it to the man with an ego the size of Wembley who thinks that the club thrives on his existance and not the reverse, think about a club with all the class of a Las Vegas Casino and built on the same 'fronted' values, the players like whores searching desperately for more green. How much arselicking can you get then the sight of Frank Lampard singing the name of Abramovic as though it actually means something? Think about the fans and the joke that is 'the bridge' as clueless as the club is classless.

 

Think about all of this and let's give it one final push on the road to Turkey, we have come a long way but we've got a long way to go.

 

Lets fuckinwell do this!! Come on you reds

 

YNWA

[Guest Brian Stewart]

I rarely get wound up before a game, but I am about this one. I've got a ticket, which is just as well, because I really don't think I could sit and watch it on the box. The big trophies are the league and the EC (with all due respects to the treble season), and it's over 15 years since we've won either.

 

We've got to beat them, we've got to beat AC or PSV: I'm sick of the 'you're not famous anymore' crap, because it's true, or at least we're only famous for our past. This is a chance to return to the top. Hardly dare hope........

[BatChainPuller]

Judgement day for the players too - there's quite a few underachievers in the team and tomorrow will show whether they've got what it takes. All the raving about the chelsea squad but man-for-man we're not far behind if they produce what their capable of - in particular Kewell, Cisse,Baros, and Gerrard. I don't think our defence has much left to prove - a few question marks about Sami's lack of pace in certain situations, but thats about it.

 

I think Rafa's preparation of the team will be top-notch, and I expect him to pull some tactical surprises - I imagine he's got a few ideas saved up for just such an occasion.

[chorlton]

drogba misses, hamann scores the winning pen.

 

Headline - A tale of 2 didi's

[BatChainPuller]

After being caught in the changing rooms giving mrs mourinho one, Biscan wins the winner in the 89th minute with a 35 yard screamer.

 

Headline: He Came, Igor, He Conquered.

[kop]

Fat Frank and Mourinho seconds before kick off, they won't know what hit them.

[Red Nick]

After being caught in the changing rooms giving mrs mourinho one, Biscan wins the winner in the 89th minute with a 35 yard screamer.

 

Headline: He Came, Igor, He Conquered.

 

he's fucking quick then as his wife is in Portugal, how do i know that :yes:

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

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