Liverpool do it again

[DaveyCakes]

Wtf d'you want? a 15-man brawl and 6 red cards, or something??

No. A little bit of football might have been nice though.

There were 21 shots in the match last night, it was a tense end-to-end show from first to last minute between two evenly matched sides, (over the tie). You had balls hitting the woodwork, goals wrongly given offside, missed sitters from 4 yards, the drama of penos, and people still whinge about how boring it was.

How many of those 21 were on target and how many were just punted in from outside the box by players who didn't have the imagination or skill to try to pick out a pass? One ball (singular) hit the bar, One (singular) goal was wrongly given offside, One (singular) sitter was missed from 4 yards. That's about one minute taken up out of 2 hours of awful kick and rush football.

Obviously most here never watched Switzerland-Ukraine at the WC last summer, the worst game in history.

What has Switzerland-Ukraine got to do with Liverpool-Chelsea?

[NY Hoop]

This is something I'll never understand about national team types. They obsess about British football to the exclusion of their own (and other) leagues, support a team entirely composed of players schooled in the British football tradition (the majority of whom, in the case of Italia 90, were born and raised in Britain), who learned their football, play their football and eventually coach football in Britain, and yet whenever the not unreasonable inference that this makes them, in effect, a British team is drawn, they bristle with indignation. If they want Irish football to have a separate and indigenous character, they have a very funny way of going about it.

Fair play there couldnt agree more. Got to come to terms with agreeing with someone who has such an unhealthy Rovers obsession though

KOH

[DaveyCakes]

There are two ways of playing football, the winning way and the losing way. And we won last night. You can play pretty football all you like, but that doesn't win trophies. Ask Arsenal.

Ummmm... Premiership 1997/98, 2001/02, 2003/04, FA Cup 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005...

[Stuttgart88]

Does anyone else think the away goals rule ruins these games from a purist's perspective?

The Carling Cup route where away goals only comes into it AET makes more sense in my opinion and takes the fear of conceding a goal out of the equation for most of the game.

[BohsPartisan]

Ummmm... Premiership 1997/98, 2001/02, 2003/04, FA Cup 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005...

Yeah but the Premiership doesn't count because Liverpool haven't won it!

[jebus]

If I weren't such an avid ABU I'd be hoping they walk Liverpool off the park in Athens, should United beat Milan tonight, for the ake of football....if only I weren't such an avid ABU

[mypost]

That's about one minute taken up out of 2 hours of awful kick and rush football.

Do you have a measuring tape handy for matches??

There were 21 shots. Argue all you like about the distance, variety, etc, but there have been similiar games with far less action, and a lot more boredom. It was end-to-end, it could have gone either way, but it happened to go our way this time. This is high-risk, high pressure EC football. Look elsewhere if you expect something else.

[OwlsFan]

This is something I'll never understand about national team types. They obsess about British football to the exclusion of their own (and other) leagues, support a team entirely composed of players schooled in the British football tradition (the majority of whom, in the case of Italia 90, were born and raised in Britain), who learned their football, play their football and eventually coach football in Britain, and yet whenever the not unreasonable inference that this makes them, in effect, a British team is drawn, they bristle with indignation. If they want Irish football to have a separate and indigenous character, they have a very funny way of going about it.

I will always "bristle with indignation" if a team representing Ireland is called "British". According to your logic, Irish people who work in Britain are also British!

As one who probably spent a lot more time in the past attending League of Ireland games than most, I accept that the local game will never take off for a host of reasons but primarily because of the hold GAA has on the country. This attitude that you can only be dedicated to the local game and must give the two fingers to the English game as a consequence is parochial in the extreme. In the days when I went to Milltown and all away games in Dublin at every opportunity and followed the national team, I also supported Sheffield Wednesday and didn't see a contradiction and still don't.

[jebus]

Actually what annoys me about the coverage in the papers this morning, is that they all go on about how great the Kop is, 12th man, can suck a ball from twenty yards ( ) etc. And on nights like last night they are right. But where are the 'greatest fans in the world' when Liverpool are playing Watford, or struggling to break down Blackburn? Its the very same at Old Trafford, not a peep to be heard out of them

Thats why I'd take fans of Barcelona, River Plate, or dare I say it, Celtic, over their English counterparts any day of the week

[Stuttgart88]

Come on now mypost, you're almost as defensive as Chelsea! The Italy vs Germany game in WC06 - high tension, all or nothing game but both sides tried to win and it was compelling.

I don't think anyone doubts the context of last night's game made it thrilling, but it's a fair comment to point out that it was a very primitive game with an abundance of long balls. I think Liverpool have it in them to vary their game according to circumstances, in Chelsea's case it's a battle of attrition more often than not.

English league football is the most popular in the world for what we saw last night - atmosphere, rivalry and intensity - so nobody's doubting the entertainment value, I'm not anyway, but the football was not pleasing on the eye. I was hoping to watch the most watchable footballer in English football, Xavi Alonso, play a more prominent role.

[Lim till i die]

Thats why I'd take fans of Barcelona, River Plate, or dare I say it, Celtic, over their English counterparts any day of the week

Pah the Nou Camp is full of tourists

Plus we all know Boca are better

As for the game last night. Horrible to watch. But strangely compelling.

Sort of like the LoI really

[jebus]

Apparantly while Reina was putting Liverpool in the CL Final last night someone was burgling his house in Liverpool, Scousers, always pushing the stereotype!

[Lim till i die]

Apparantly while Reina was putting Liverpool in the CL Final last night someone was burgling his house in Liverpool, Scousers, always pushing the stereotype!

Fcukin classic, is that true??

[jebus]

Fcukin classic, is that true??

Just got a text about it ythere, haven't looked it up on the news though

[gilberto_eire]

Yes because Chelseas only penalty was scored by an England international , that really backs up your point there.

i didnt mean taken and scored i meant influence between the squad and it was a joke nobby!

[Lim till i die]

Oh those Scouse rogues

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=464488&CPID=8&clid=14&lid=2&title=R eina's+home+ransacked

[BohsPartisan]

Oh those Scouse rogues

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=464488&CPID=8&clid=14&lid=2&title=R eina's+home+ransacked

Evertonians always did have the most novel ways of showing their support for their club!

[Steve Bruce]

Do you have a measuring tape handy for matches??

There were 21 shots. Argue all you like about the distance, variety, etc, but there have been similiar games with far less action, and a lot more boredom. It was end-to-end, it could have gone either way, but it happened to go our way this time. This is high-risk, high pressure EC football. Look elsewhere if you expect something else.

Elsewhere - Like tonight when Man Utd take on Milan, with both teams putting on a great show like they did in the first leg. I think that'll do nicely.

[strangeirish]

Wtf d'you want? a 15-man brawl and 6 red cards, or something??

Sorry, I've never been to a Rovers game.
What I meant was that it was a woeful game of football i.e. Balls being hoofed into the clouds all night, overpaid so-called superstars fainting at the sight of a shadow, long periods of the game where same 'superstars' couldn't pass the ball five yards. As for the 21 shots you mentioned, how many of those knocked someone's head off in the stands? 13 of the 21 were off target, not to mention the 52 'fouls' that were committed. I'm not picking on you mypost, but IMHO it was just a bad game of football.

[NeilMcD]

Actually what annoys me about the coverage in the papers this morning, is that they all go on about how great the Kop is, 12th man, can suck a ball from twenty yards ( ) etc. And on nights like last night they are right. But where are the 'greatest fans in the world' when Liverpool are playing Watford, or struggling to break down Blackburn? Its the very same at Old Trafford, not a peep to be heard out of them

Thats why I'd take fans of Barcelona, River Plate, or dare I say it, Celtic, over their English counterparts any day of the week

Nou Camp has a terrible atmosphere, Its like an evening at the theatre.