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It will be interesting to see if Mascherano looks any better at Liverpool than he has during his brief spell at West Ham. Was hinted he will debut tonight ageainst Barca, cant see it myself though.
Also, re the heysel and hillsborough songs, its not as if liverpool fans never mention Munich is it. (P.S. seeing a copper on fire at Heysel did make me chuckle though)
b.t.w. missed something, whats bellamy done now
EDIT: scrub that mascherano is on bench
Yeah, a minority of Liverpool fans do, although certainly not as much as Man Utd fans mention Hillsbrough/Heysel (in my opinion, but obviously I am biased). But yeah, it's just as wrong and should be stopped.
Bellamy whacked Riise with a golf club, and now they're both on the left wing. Should be interesting. And apparently to counter the thread of Ronaldinho, Rafa has decided that two right backs will stop him. Hmm.
1-0 to Barca. So far our tactics have consisted of running around like headless chickens, and kicking Ronaldinho. Yeah, this is going to end 3-0.
On the plus side, Chelsea were 1-0 down when I last checked :D
Half-time edit: I spoke too soon. 1-1 in both games. Bellamy scored for us, and his celebration was to swing an imaginary golf club. I say Kuyt scored, not Bellamy, and UEFA initially agreed with me but now they've given the goal to Bellamy, presumably because they enjoyed his celebration. Meanwhile, our tactics have changed from kicking Ronaldinho (and Puyol, who has responded to our attacks by turning to religion. He is praying to the referee every time he gets fouled) to kicking everyone. Go LFC, go!
Edit 2: Oh smurf yes, 2-1! Riise scored (with his right foot!), and Bellamy assisted, hahaha. Break in play in the moment because Ronaldinho just crippled Sissoko. Yes, I got that the correct way around. Still, Momo's been giving as good as he gets, and I think Barca are pretty pissed off with him. smurf, looks like he's going to be out for a while, and he only just returned from injury. The next 10 minutes or so will be pure heart attack football for me.
Edit 3: and it wasn't really. A bit lacklustre from Barca. I expect a lot of whining to come from them about our tactics. It was sort of like watching an angry Bolton/Everton/Blackburn on crack, although don't assume that means we dug in deep and went into all-out defence mode, we didn't, which surprises me, we attacked them just as much as they attacked us. Our second win at the Nou Camp, and we're still the only British team to beat Barca there. Good god the game at Anfield is going to be intense. :excited:
To end, Mohammed "Inferior to Abou Diaby" Sissoko is a one-man footballing war machine. Xavi, Iniesta, Deco, Ronaldinho...he took them all on and he won. Better than Diaby? He's better than bloody Fabregas.
2-1 at the Nou Camp. o_o I wasn't expecting it, but wtf Barca. >_o Anywhosss, pretty damn good on Liverpool's part. Prettyyyy damn good. I only hope Arsenal can rip those PSV eiefekfs at Emirates. :/ Bah.
Didn't see the game, but the result speaks for itself. Bloody impressive stuff, Liverpool.
Thank god Barca lost. As much as I hate Liverpool, I hate Barca a whole lo t more.
Does anyone think Celtic will cause an upset at the san siro?
Possible. Milan underestimate their opponents from time to time though usually away from home. IMO they shouldn't have been in the competition in the first place
Milan are in terrible form at the moment. They've barely won their last two games against very weak opposition and their defence is laughable without Nesta.
There goes dear Fergie antagonising his teaaaam again :bigsmile: That man, I swear.
Bad luck, Fulham. You came so close. :(
Man, I wish there were some West Ham fans around here so I could give them the biggest xD ever. Those guys don't just fail, they fail in style. :D
Jesus, hope John Terry is OK. That looked nasty.
Bah, Howard Webb cocked that game up for us. Baptista should have had a penalty, Diarra should have been sent off, and from that point on it's game over. Our kids did a brilliant job up until the Terry incident (which was horrible to watch, but doesn't seem to have done too much lasting damage) at which point they seemed to lose their stability. Chelsea, meanwhile, had asolutely nothing going for them until the introduction of Robben, when they fought their way back in to the game, and were in control by the end.
Of course, the brawl at the end really spoiled things. It was dumb of Touré to react and start it all off, and dumber of Adebayor to throw his weight around the way he did. But with two minutes left to go, for Webb to give five cards was bloody stupid, and made a much bigger deal of the incident than was necessary. Because of his overreaction, the incidents at the end overshadowed what was otherwise a highly entertaining game, which is unfortunate. I suppose it's all part of the cup final drama, but if you ask me the game was dramatic enough without the injury time controversy.
So many things to cover, but all in all, it's another sucky Chelsea victory. :(
Using accents on Toure's name? Bloody fancy dan.
I think Arsenal deserved to win the entire tournament, but I didn't really care that they didn't. It's just a shame it didn't go to extra time, to wear them out further, but hopefully Blackburn can do that in the replay. Still, sickening injury + handbags brawl = satisfying enough.
Good lord, this Reading v Man Utd match has gone from possibly intriguing replay to bad joke in the first six minutes! You may as well give the FA Cup to Man Utd or Chelsea right now :( (though I think Spurs may have a chance to beat Chelsea in the quarters possibly)
It ended pretty well though, didn't it?
If Reading had got their second about ten minutes earlier, then things could have been very different. Awesome match, despite the result. :)