Topic: UEFA Cup Semi-Final 1st Leg: Atlético Madrid 1 - 0 Liverpool (April 22nd 2010)

[Gainsbarre]

it could have been better... 0 shots, 0 corners... much better!

[OohCampione]

Do people actually think that in a European semi final, we should play knickers down, skirt up? This is a semi fucking final FFS - you respect your opponent, and the occasion and don't play gung ho football. We didn't and in all honesty should of walked out of that tonight with a draw and a score draw at that. Stop being self important over leveraged quims and analys every farts end.

Good night.

Spot on. Especially when Rafa has already come out and praised their ability on the counter. I'd have taken the result before  the game.

[Samee]

We're going to fuck them...Right up the arse.

Interesting.

[Gnurglan]

Do people actually think that in a European semi final, we should play knickers down, skirt up? This is a semi fucking final FFS - you respect your opponent, and the occasion and don't play gung ho football. We didn't and in all honesty should of walked out of that tonight with a draw and a score draw at that. Stop being self important over leveraged quims and analys every farts end.

Good night.

I said before the game that I thought it would be a difficult one. Have watched Atletico Madrid quite a few times this season. They are not fantastic, but they have qualities.
To lose 1-0 against them away is not a disaster. We're two goals away from the Final. We have 90 minutes to play, at home. Still pretty good odds.

[hoonin]

I shouldn't ask really Gareth, but where do I fit in there?   

Extreme twat.

[Helsinki Red]

it could have been better... 0 shots, 0 corners... much better!

I think you're the first tonight who wrote "o shots, 0 corners".

[walshys_mullet]

Do people actually think that in a European semi final, we should play knickers down, skirt up? This is a semi fucking final FFS - you respect your opponent, and the occasion and don't play gung ho football. We didn't and in all honesty should of walked out of that tonight with a draw and a score draw at that. Stop being self important over leveraged quims and analys every farts end.

Good night.

When do we do that anyway?

[Rococo]

Why..are we due anther volcano?

No, I just think that tonight has demonstrated we can't expect Steven Seagal every week - I share in the panic

[royhendo]

Yeah the ref was top class, Paul, wasn't he? Reyes is a fucking cheat though eh? Goes down like a cheap hooker on prom night.

[Benimar Col]

It's not mysterious at all mate, the reason we've been so shite all year is because the same players and tactics have been used time after time.

nail on the head    it really is embaressing,  something must give in the summer ?

[Chakan]

Really need to burn these black shirts!! How many times have we won in them anyone know?

Well it's up to the boys to give them a fucking hiding at anfield

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

You should be on time for your paper round then you fucking ted.

  Superb.

[reldinho]

That was a disgrace. Tonight I have finally changed my view of Rafa. Atletico are a piss poor side and were there for the taking. Benfica were much better than these infact!

We could have easily won this game by two or three goals tonight. Tottenham, Man City or Villa probably would have beaten them tonight (not even going to go as far as saying what United or Chelsea would have done to them). Even we would have beaten them with a manager deploying semi positive tactics. This negativity is not the Liverpool Football Club way.

Bringing on shite like El Zhar when we've got a £20m midfielder sat on the bench doing F.A., a decision almost on par with taking Torres off at Birmingham, just about sums Rafa up.

Rafa you seem a great bloke but you're negative tactics have got the better of me one too many times. I'm still confident of reaching the final as I don't see these posing too many problems at Anfield but as for Rafa I think he's taken the club about as far as he can.

Spurs, Man City or Villa wouldn't have got this far in a European tournament. Simple as that.

As for should've brought Aquilani on, I don't recall seeing him ever playing on the wing or up front, which is where the substitutions were made. Like it or not we were playing away from home so you have to protect the defence. Aquilani playing in centre-mid wouldn't have provided the same protection as Masch and Lucas. I don't think that can be denied by anyone, even those of you that like to moan for the sake of moaning.  Next time Aquilani starts a game in midfield, watch how many times he leaves whoever he is playing with on his own in midfield to join the attack. That is suicidal away from home in Europe and you know it.

[Terry de Niro]

Really need to burn these black shirts!! How many times have we won in them anyone know?

and the yellow ones, and the white ones.... 

[Brentieke]

Something's wrong. We beat Everton away this season and deep down there was this nagging feeling for me..."that was fucking awful football". Unbelievable really. Now I'm depressed by our performances and embarrassed by the fact we might stumble into the final. We're are rubbish and the Europa Final won't paper over that fucking huge crack. There's no point avoiding it.

Absolutely.

End of the day, the Europa League will be nice and that but it wont make for a succesful season. Nor will it be something to build on. We're a seriously bad football side without Fernando Torres in our team and until we devise a way to play without him or find a suitbale replacement for him, it aint going to get better any time soon.

I always felt last season that our team was dependant on 3 players for it to be ticking. Alonso, Gerrard and Torres. If we had 2/3 you'd still feel confident and could see us play well.  1/3 and we struggle badly.

Well this season we've had to deal with Alonso leaving with is replacement not playing and Torres being injured for so long. Leacing the whole thing on Stevie's shoulders, while he's been woefully out of form. We can still turn it on if those 2 are on the pitch together, but for the large part we're absolutely woeful. We may have a good performance once in a while with only one of them playing, but for the large part we have not learned how to play wihtout Xabi, and still have no plan B for when Torres is out.

Until we do, we'll keep heading backwards.

[macca888]

Extreme twat.

  My own fault for asking, but could we have less of the fucking extreme please, bollocks!

[firing squad]

Atletico has an extremely shite defence and Nando would have a field day against them but we're without him in the second leg as well. I really don't know who would be best to lead the line at Anfield.

Then again,Liverpool is all about winning things in the toughest way possible.

history is repeating itself for us to win this,last time Bayern knocked United in the quarters of the CL was in 2001 and they won the CL(they're looking good for the final this year too) and the same season we won the UEFA Cup(not to mention the fact that whenever we beat Benfica in an europaean competition we ended up winning that competition) so don't worry lads,it's Bayern-Liverpool in the Supercup in Monaco in a few months.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Yeah the ref was top class, Paul, wasn't he? Reyes is a fucking cheat though eh? Goes down like a cheap hooker on prom night.

Haha

Couldnt believe what I was seeing from him. Never noticed that about him before.Did my nut in.

Think thats the best Ref performance Ive seen in a long time

[Una cerveza, por favor]

Pepe - "... if there is any team that can do it with the supporters behind them, it is Liverpool. There is no doubt about that." - Pepe, I <3 you.

[Chakan]

and the yellow ones, and the white ones.... 

nah just the black ones

[weebroalan]

Why..are we due anther volcano?

No - we've had bird flu, swine flu and apparently next year it's whopper flu so hopefully it'll kill some of these fuckers off so we can get on with supporting the redmen

[CHOPPER]

When do we do that anyway?

There is a time and a place to play such football, tonight wasn't one of them and we've never really done that on our travels over the years, so why should we start now. 

[Baz76]

Not got a good feeling about the home leg, we've battered Lille and Benfica but can we do it again?? It will be tough, probably tougher than a lot of people seem to think. If they score we could be screwed.

About tonight, I thought it was satisfactory by our away standards. But that's not saying much. Not adventurous enough and far, far too negative. As usual away from home.

Still, we've got a good chance.

Satisfactory? my god, how standards have dropped. It was a fucking spineless and dire performance lad.

[evered avenue]

Yeah and he's gotten older and has been injured this season. One bad season and he gets targeted by certain fans.

The age thing doesn't carry any weight for me, he's only what, 29/30??  at his footballing prime in my opinion.  The injuries have been a factor true and the loss of fitness that goes with that.

All that aside, I don't think any of that has got to do with why he's become a target.  I think it all has to do with effort, body language and his captaining.  That is, his apparent lack of effort, his piss poor body language and his seemingly invisible captaining.

[smig]

Spurs, Man City or Villa wouldn't have got this far in a European tournament. Simple as that.

As for should've brought Aquilani on, I don't recall seeing him ever playing on the wing or up front, which is where the substitutions were made. Like it or not we were playing away from home so you have to protect the defence. Aquilani playing in centre-mid wouldn't have provided the same protection as Masch and Lucas. I don't think that can be denied by anyone, even those of you that like to moan for the sake of moaning.  Next time Aquilani starts a game in midfield, watch how many times he leaves whoever he is playing with on his own in midfield to join the attack. That is suicidal away from home in Europe and you know it.

Oh fuck it then, we may as well forget ever attacking a side away in Europe then. That is exactly our problem, we're too worried about the opposition.

[yazeed]

i thought pepe was our best player tonight

Not only tonight but for the whole season

[The Infamous_LFC]

Very abject performance it's only the first half. They looked really out of depth as well, confident we can do them at ours.

[Sir Capon of Debaser]

Do people actually think that in a European semi final, we should play knickers down, skirt up? This is a semi fucking final FFS - you respect your opponent, and the occasion and don't play gung ho football. We didn't and in all honesty should of walked out of that tonight with a draw and a score draw at that. Stop being self important over leveraged quims and analys every farts end.

Good night.

Spot on mate.

[Samee]

The age thing doesn't carry any weight for me, he's only what, 29/30??  at his footballing prime in my opinion.  The injuries have been a factor true and the loss of fitness that goes with that.

All that aside, I don't think any of that has got to do with why he's become a target.  I think it all has to do with effort, body language and his captaining.  That is, his apparent lack of effort, his piss poor body language and his seemingly invisible captaining.

In my books, after all the shit he's done for us, he should be able to have at least one bad season.

[Gnurglan]

Not only tonight but for the whole season

I'd agree with that. Pepe has been our best player this season.

[Terry de Niro]

No - we've had bird flu, swine flu and apparently next year it's whopper flu so hopefully it'll kill some of these fuckers off so we can get on with supporting the redmen

I'll look forward to that..

Thank fuck. I can go to bed now.

[cathy-lfc-taff]

Those are nonsense ratings

[WelshKopite]

Another poor performance. How anyone can say we play good football is beyond me. I'll re-itterate - WE PLAY ABSOLUTLEY DIRE FOOTBALL.

That's a very poor Atletico team too, and they lost 3 on the bounce before beating us. We didn't even have a shot on goal. Reyes looked like fucking Messi out there.

Its a good job they're pretty shite, cos we should pummel them at Anfield.

[therockbox]

In my books, after all the shit he's done for us, he should be able to have at least one bad season.

Nonsense.  We can't afford to be carrying a player for an entire season, and shouldn't be expected to either.

[slaphead]

We're going to fuck them in the second leg. Right up the arse.

Old Ribery will be looking for a side then

[royhendo]

Seriously though, there's a Disposable Heroes lyric that says "Maybe the mother of our nation should remind us that we're sitting too close to the television"; well likewise, somebody (maybe Kenny) needs to remind our fans that they're turning into a bunch of spoilt brats.

European semi finals don't fucking grow on trees. Here's me, what - 36 years old? I've personally only been to 2 European semi finals and 1 European final, and only one of those games has involved Liverpool. And I'm 36. Is it because I'm older than your average Rawkite? 

[Z e u s]

It was clear that we needed someone in the centre of midfield that could get us playing.

Instead of subbing Lucas for Aquilani or dropping Gerrard into centre midfield, our manager decided to bring on El Zhar.

[cj]

Slightly gutted since we owned most of the game.Up to the lads to turn it around next week and hopefully it will be done.

[Stevando_Torrard]

Being disappointed isn't not supporting the team.

Sorry mate, what I'm getting at is there seems to be a growing contingent waiting to, and enjoying, giving it the 'I told you so' type of post.  It winds me up, and I can't help it - especially when something isn't over.  That, IMO, is not supporting the team.  We can agree to disagree if you like.

[weebroalan]

Makes me wanna cry this thread.

Seriously if we make it to Germany what will you lot be saying?

Fucking embarrassment to our club and the city of Liverpool.