Topic: Match Preview: UCL Final Real Madrid v Liverpool [26 May 2018, KO 19:45 GMT]

[sms1986]

Salah and Lovren have a chat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkw8VS67U8Y.

I honestly think we will.

Marcelo is great going forward but when he is MIA the other centre-halves will try and cover as well as their midfielders...

But I can see our lads tying them up in ribbons and it will be a shock to the system for them.

A win will be brilliant, but a dominant win where we score plenty will send a much bigger message.

[Living Legends]

Salah and Lovren have a chat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkw8VS67U8Y.

A win will be brilliant, but a dominant win where we score plenty will send a much bigger message.

In a final, a win is a win, is a win 

[sms1986]

In a final, a win is a win, is a win 

That's true!

[Pie Eyed]

Anyone else got a funny feeling we're gonna do this?

I'm not confident enough to say that (mainly due to superstition).

What I will say though is this....

Whatever happens, WE CANNOT LOSE !!!

Given the fact that everyone bar LFC and its fans has Madrid walking all over us, with LFC only being there to make up the numbers, then if we lose, it's because we were up against an unbeatable side.

That alone should give us the motivation to go out and prove every last one of these fuckers wrong.

Not one of them (press, Real Madrid, opposition fans) thinks it will be anything but a cakewalk for RM.

Let's fucking smash 'em.

[Pie Eyed]

That Trent ball to Salah he did against City into the space for the 1st goal at Anfield.

And he did the same ball twice again to Salah for 2 goals against Roma in the 2nd half.

Marcelo goes gung ho and Madrid are getting destroyed.

You know what.

When I watched RM's Semi-Final, after watching us against Roma, I saw RM playing in exactly the same way that Roma did, and the same cutout balls that we used to batter Romain the Semi would have worked in exactly the same way against RM.

I hope we do the fucking same on Saturday, because I don't see them coping with it.

[paulrazor]

is creatine legal? i thought it was

[mkingdon]

These guys are so looking forward to targeting TAA at the back they are going to be stunned when he rips them a new one going forward. Trent and Mo v abandoned space. Weak fullbacks omg looozers got no idea whats about to hit them.

Unless Clyne starts..... 

[Clint Eastwood]

is creatine legal? i thought it was

Yeah. I take it, and you get it in most pre-workouts. Perhaps prohibited for footballers in the same way Kolo Toure's fat burners were.

[mkingdon]

Inject their complacency into my eyeballs...I love it.

That Torres interview is Lovren-esque in its tone. Bless Dejan he's done a few of those over the years before having a shocker of a game. I hope the same will ring true for Madrid.

Somewhere in a Melwood locker room the force of nature that is James Milner is quietly plotting the game of his life and the destruction of this Madrid set of pampered show ponies.

Break out the Ribena....

[Brain Potter]

I can’t see these employing any special tactics to keep us quiet ala Conte or Mourinho. They’ll back themselves to beat us whatever. I personally think we’ll rinse them.

[Roger Federer]

Anyone else got a funny feeling we're gonna do this?

I don't know if it is a good thing, I'm usually more worried than confident, but I've felt from the last 16 and onwards that we're clearly good enough to win this.

Of course Madrid are hugely talented and experienced, but this is clearly the worst team they've had in recent years and our front three is something else. Play at our best and we'll win.

[BabuYagu]

Yep - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2777094-why-everyone-in-madrid-is-so-confident-real-will-beat-mentally-weak-liverpool

WOW!

If ever a team deserved the 6-0 thrashing that Real Madrid are about to get, it is these fucks!

This all works in our favour. Because if Real Madrid start getting demolished by this shite, mentally weak side - can you imagine the shock? It wasn't meant to be this way. *booo, whistle, white handkerchiefs*

Fucking get into them Klopp. Ruin their arrogant, entitled, self-aggrandizement. Their "we want, we take" attitude. c*nts. 6-0!

[mkingdon]

I can’t see these employing any special tactics to keep us quiet ala Conte or Mourinho. They’ll back themselves to beat us whatever. I personally think we’ll rinse them.

I think we are capable.

My main worry about Real is their "experience" as the pundits will call it. By which I mean cheating, and the ref falling for it.

[Dave D]

is creatine legal? i thought it was

It wasn't just creatine.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/zidane-juventus-gave-me-drugs-7226755.html

The Real Madrid midfielder told a Turin court he was given a variety of substances by Juventus officals during his five years at club, including Esafosfina, normally used for low phosphate levels; Neoton, used to strengthen the heart; and Samyr, an anti-depressant.

He claimed the club told him they were vitamins. He also regularly took the energyboosting substance creatine, iron supplements and the anti-inflammatory drug, Voltaren.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-drug-scandal-that-blackens-the-name-of-juves-team-of-the-nineties-728710.html

When investigators raided the club they found 281 different types of drug. Few, if any of them were banned by the International Olympic Committee and no EPO was found. But the sheer quantity of pharmaceuticals told the magistrates that something was amiss. As Gianmartino Benzi, medical adviser to Guariniello, put it, "the club was equipped like a small hospital".

Eugenio Muller, a pharmacologist, reported that the club had systematically supplied its players with prescription-only drugs, with no therapeutic justification but with the aim of boosting energy levels or speeding recovery after injury.

Among the drugs used were Voltaren, an anti-inflammatory and pain killer, which was used by 32 players. The drug is widely used in football to treat isolated injuries but Muller said that at Juventus the usage was not occasional but planned, continuous and substantial.

Samyr, a powerful anti-depressant, was taken by 23 players, even though "none of these players showed any signs of depression", according to Muller. Neoton, a drug used to protect the heart, was taken by 14 players.

Who knows what it's done to his brain over the years. He can't be all there if he's been telling journalists behind closed doors how easy this game is going to be for them.

[Qston]

I can’t see these employing any special tactics to keep us quiet ala Conte or Mourinho. They’ll back themselves to beat us whatever. I personally think we’ll rinse them.

I made this point a few weeks ago. There is no way Zidane will change tactics to accomodate the fact they are playing us and if they don`t then that is what ultimately would win us the game. They play a high line, defenders going MIA, midfielders and forwards the same then we will be all over them with the pressing we do. They won`t know what has hit them. I agree with others that they won`t, as players, underestimate us but the mere fact that they are who they are means they won`t in their minds alter the way they play. If anything, ultimately their "brand" will be what undoes them

[BabuYagu]

I could, but this is the champions league week. We're in the final. Any c*nt climbing up inside the arse of real madrid to praise them, needs to have a look at themselves.

Four days to go, the niceties are over. Especially against this horrible fucking fraud of a club.

Here! Here!

It will be so brutal. So shocking. So unexpected by many. SO RED! People will think George R R Martin scripted it him-fucking-self.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

butterflies in my stomach, nerves in full effect, something in the air, time is moving slow

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Keep thinking back to that game against city when Klopp first came.They were managed by Pellegrini and we honestly could've won about 12 -2!! The mad thing was,we were calm as fuck in that game and city fell apart.Pellegrini changed his tactics for the zenith data systems cup final because of it

Gore feeling this games gonna be like that and it'll be too late for them to do anything aboot it cos they're arrogant fuckers

[clinical]

Never seen such arrogance from a side and their previous players.

[sms1986]

WOW!

If ever a team deserved the 6-0 thrashing that Real Madrid are about to get, it is these fucks!

This all works in our favour. Because if Real Madrid start getting demolished by this shite, mentally weak side - can you imagine the shock? It wasn't meant to be this way. *booo, whistle, white handkerchiefs*

Fucking get into them Klopp. Ruin their arrogant, entitled, self-aggrandizement. Their "we want, we take" attitude. c*nts. 6-0!

Can it be 6-0 by half time?

[stockdam]

Never seen such arrogance from a side and their previous players.

Which is good. We'll quietly get on with our jobs and prepare for an all out blitzkrieg.

I think we'll setup quite defensively and let them come to us. Our front three will relish the extra space and our defence/midfield will fight till the end. I see us playing as a team and them getting frustrated and undisciplined.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

Never seen such arrogance from a side and their previous players.

They were arrogant when we played them in 2009.

Hopefully the outcome is the same this time around.

I don't care how, just win lads, just get one over these lot!

[sms1986]

Which is good. We'll quietly get on with our jobs and prepare for an all out blitzkrieg.

I think we'll setup quite defensively and let them come to us. Our front three will relish the extra space and our defence/midfield will fight till the end. I see us playing as a team and them getting frustrated and undisciplined.

It is, I couldn't care how arrogant they are, if they underestimate us they'll be given a sound thrashing!

[cdav]

Yep - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2777094-why-everyone-in-madrid-is-so-confident-real-will-beat-mentally-weak-liverpool

If we have a spell like we did against City I think we will absolutely smash these.

Like a lot of other teams its all well and good playing us down but how many have thought that afterwards (or even 10 minutes in as they are breathing out their arse). Hope we get right into these and sweep them off the park. Spurs brushed them aside when they couldn't deal with their tempo or physicality- we can go harder then that so its funny all these articles downplaying it- in fact I hope they have forgotten the lesson of that game!

[scouseman]

how dare they call us mentally weak. Just adding to the fire in the belly. Klopp should stick these quotes on the dressing room wall. What more motivating could you possibly need. If anyone is more deserving of a beating its Real Madrid.   

[sms1986]

how dare they call us mentally weak. Just adding to the fire in the belly. Klopp should stick these quotes on the dressing room wall. What more motivating could you possibly need. If anyone is more deserving of a beating its Real Madrid.

Klopp and the team probably wouldn't even consider reading shit articles, they certainly don't need motivation from them.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Imagine if we have one of those nights were we take every chance?

Battered Roma 5-2 shoulda been 10 or more

Battered city 3-0 coulda been about 8

Imagine if we had that one night where we didn't miss chance after chance

Imagine that

[sms1986]

Imagine if we have one of those nights were we take every chance?

Battered Roma 5-2 shoulda been 10 or more

Battered city 3-0 coulda been about 8

Imagine if we had that one night where we didn't miss chance after chance

Imagine that

I want each of the front three to score at least once, with one of them getting an hat trick.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

I want each of the front three to score at least once, with one of them getting an hat trick.

haha Can easily see a sending off..

Once that happens our lads will smell blood

I meant if

[newterp]

haha Can easily see a sending off..

Once that happens our lads will smell blood

I meant if

Emre Can? I hope he isn't sent off!

[sms1986]

haha Can easily see a sending off..

Once that happens our lads will smell blood

I meant if

Ronaldo would be a good one, he would probably sit on the bench crying for the rest of the match, either that or just storm down the tunnel like a diva!

[paulrazor]

Yeah. I take it, and you get it in most pre-workouts. Perhaps prohibited for footballers in the same way Kolo Toure's fat burners were.

could mask other stuff maybe?

It wasn't just creatine.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/zidane-juventus-gave-me-drugs-7226755.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-drug-scandal-that-blackens-the-name-of-juves-team-of-the-nineties-728710.html

Who knows what it's done to his brain over the years. He can't be all there if he's been telling journalists behind closed doors how easy this game is going to be for them.

It wasn't just creatine.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/zidane-juventus-gave-me-drugs-7226755.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-drug-scandal-that-blackens-the-name-of-juves-team-of-the-nineties-728710.html

Who knows what it's done to his brain over the years. He can't be all there if he's been telling journalists behind closed doors how easy this game is going to be for them.

doesnt sound good does it

[sms1986]

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Emre Can? I hope he isn't sent off!

waheeyyyy

[Hunts Cross]

Ronaldo would be a good one, he would probably sit on the bench crying for the rest of the match, either that or just storm down the tunnel like a diva!

If sent off, the player cannot sit on the bench and is required to leave the field of play i.e. Go down the tunnel.

[sms1986]

If sent off, the player cannot sit on the bench and is required to leave the field of play i.e. Go down the tunnel.

Oh yeah, I was thinking of him being subbed. Then again, the possibilities would still be the same!

[Kelvinlfc]

Watching that prick Ronaldo crying his eyes out at the final whistle is going to fill me with as much happiness as winning the trophy

[Dr. Beaker]

Ronaldo would be a good one, he would probably sit on the bench crying for the rest of the match, either that or just storm down the tunnel like a diva!

Think that's a spelling mistake isn't it..........oh, hang on.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

If sent off, the player cannot sit on the bench and is required to leave the field of play i.e. Go down the tunnel.

didnt Ramos do something similar when sent off a couple of games ago? Stayed around to cheer team on? It's Real Madrid,they can do what they want

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

"Liverpool probably is not even among the top 10 teams in Europe," says Torres, "because it doesn't have a good goalkeeper. It doesn't have a good defence. It only has one international-class defender—Virgil van Dijk. Its full-backs are very limited. Maybe they're strong, fast; they're able to do OK in the English Premier League, but none of them signed for Chelsea or Manchester City or Manchester United because they don't have the level to play for those teams. The full-backs for Tottenham Hotspur are much better than Liverpool's.

Ha. What utter horse shit.

if only we had ashley young, darmian and shaw