Quote Originally Posted by Doomie View Post
You see, for all of you wondering what Psychotic did up there, his heart never actually believed that Milan would win. His head did though.
Wrong on both counts. As I said, I knew Liverpool's style would be one that would allow them to take control of the game, and logic dictates that we'd win based on that. However, I just had a feeling something like this would happen.
KAKA IS BETTER.
Had a great game tonight, didn't he? ...after Mascherano came off, that is.
Also, as for the DOMINATING of the game by Liverpool...I'm sorry.
Apology accepted. Please try harder when we meet again in 2009.
I think Liverpool lost because of the following reasons:

No Peter Crouch.
I don't think they used Riise well enough. I think he is their second biggest asset, after Gerrard.
Revenge is a powerful motivator.
Yeah, somewhat. Also replacing Mascherano instead of Alonso for Crouch was costly.

...dunno about this Riise thing though. Or Gerrard. Would rather we lost Gerrard than Carragher.
I firmly believe that Liverpool would crumble down without Gerrard. The same wouldn't happen if Kaka left. Or any other player. Liverpool places too much on that one player. If he's out, their whole team falls apart. I think Milan shares the workload much better, and that's why I think they one.
I...I...what? Now this is just silly. You do realise that Liverpool have a better record in games without Gerrard than we do with, right? Rafa's ideal formation is two holding midfielders in the centre, and two pure widemen on the flanks. Stevie is neither. Sure, he can perform those roles, but he isn't a specialist, as it were. But he simply cannot be dropped.