Champions League
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maz
I walk the line
I have a feeling neither team wanted to play us in the semi final!
I saw all the goals...the problem is none of them were amazing (although i liked lamps' goal off the bar). Cech seemed like his helmet was made of tinfoil and he was trying to run away from the alien invasion. He really seemed lost beyond belief. And what about reina's absolute howler.
From what i hear chelsea were the better team over the two legs (i.e. neither was superior in the second leg but chelsea were superb in the first leg), so i guess chelsea are more than deserved winners. But that second leg really gives us a whole lot of confidence meeting them. Not over confidence at all, but we dont have to go in with fear.
I saw all the goals...the problem is none of them were amazing (although i liked lamps' goal off the bar). Cech seemed like his helmet was made of tinfoil and he was trying to run away from the alien invasion. He really seemed lost beyond belief. And what about reina's absolute howler.
From what i hear chelsea were the better team over the two legs (i.e. neither was superior in the second leg but chelsea were superb in the first leg), so i guess chelsea are more than deserved winners. But that second leg really gives us a whole lot of confidence meeting them. Not over confidence at all, but we dont have to go in with fear.
The first goal was unbelievable, and i mean I couldn't believe he let it go in. I hope he plays like that against us.
puta madrid
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game of the season in my opinion.
puta madrid
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CL Comment: How Bad Football Made Chelsea-Liverpool The Best Game Of The Season
You just couldn't make it up. How do they keep on doing it? World class clowns provided 90 minutes of unadulterated entertainment, and Goal.com's Sulmaan Ahmad wants more...
You would have been forgiven for thinking that this evening you were watching something straight out of Coca Cola League Two. The standard of football was, for large parts, no better than schoolboy stuff and the regularity with which world class, multi-millionaire footballers made mortifying mistakes was unbelievable. Beyond belief. You just couldn't believe it.
And yet you just couldn't take your eyes off it even for a second. Every time Chelsea thought they were out, Liverpool pulled them back in. The entirety of the two legs tied up to tell a quite remarkable story. You will not see a more entertaining game this season. Have these two boring, boring sides now turned a page? Or was this tie nothing more than an inexplicable anomaly?
There was the sublime, the ridiculous and not a lot inbetween - it was a game of absolute extremes, which is what ensures it will remain long in the memory of anyone who had the pleasure of being at the stadium or watching the game on television.
Didier Drogba put in one of the most intense and overpowering performances you'll ever see from a striker without even scoring a goal (really - doesn't Chelsea's first have to go to Reina?!) He was the one man in this game who, in addition to giving 110 per cent, showed immense quality where Fernando Torres could not. That's what made him the difference between the two sides.
At the other end of the spectrum, who remembers when Petr Cech was rivalling Gigi Buffon as the best goalkeeper in the world? There is sympathy with the Czech glovesman as many perhaps rightly believe that his head trauma sustained against Reading in 2006 has irreparably damaged him as a goalkeeper.
Without making a genuine accusation, Cech honestly had the look of a man who had thrown the game. He made so many inconceivable errors in succession that it defied belief. He was put on edge by set-pieces from the get-go and was humiliated for the first goal and arguably even partially culpable for the second. Arguably his worst two moments came either side of half time, when he did his best David James impressions: coming out, getting nothing and leaving open goals at the Reds' mercy. They went unpunished.
But if Cech was dumb, perhaps Pepe Reina was dumber. He looked the picture perfect portrait of a top class glovesman for the entire first half, until early in the second he decided that a ball dribbling in from the right hand side by his feet was not batted away, not held, but pushed into the net. It gave Chelsea the momentum switch they needed to go on and win the tie.
The common perception was that it would just be one of those nights. Liverpool, the architects of the impossible, even had that little bit of luck. No Gerrard, no problem: Xabi Alonso was awarded a penalty for being held in the penalty area - a genuine offence, but one that is so, so rarely penalised.
But Hiddink showed that even in making mistakes, he can always carve out a result. His half-time team talk must have been something special, because the Blues turned the tables shortly after the break and played with a sense of freedom and superiority; imposing themselves on their visitors and very much making their own luck.
Alex, ponderous all game in defence, pretty much won the tie battering a bullet of a free kick past a helpless Reina. Then it was all Chelsea. Lampard scraped home a third and not even Liverpool's third act twist ever really changed things. Even though it was Liverpool.
Perhaps Rafa will regret not having Gerrard on the bench. Maybe he could have given his team-mates a confidence boost just when they needed it. Given Hiddink and Chelsea something new to think about.
It wasn't to be. This was Chelsea's night and one that will never be forgotten. Now the Blues will face Barcelona, the footballing Gods, in another modern Champions League classic, but can that top this? Can anything? I don't think so. We all want to see the world's best playing fantasy football - the Maradonas and the Messis, the Madrids and the Milans at the peak of their powers - but we sometimes underestimate just how entertaining complete and utter incompetence can be
You just couldn't make it up. How do they keep on doing it? World class clowns provided 90 minutes of unadulterated entertainment, and Goal.com's Sulmaan Ahmad wants more...
You would have been forgiven for thinking that this evening you were watching something straight out of Coca Cola League Two. The standard of football was, for large parts, no better than schoolboy stuff and the regularity with which world class, multi-millionaire footballers made mortifying mistakes was unbelievable. Beyond belief. You just couldn't believe it.
And yet you just couldn't take your eyes off it even for a second. Every time Chelsea thought they were out, Liverpool pulled them back in. The entirety of the two legs tied up to tell a quite remarkable story. You will not see a more entertaining game this season. Have these two boring, boring sides now turned a page? Or was this tie nothing more than an inexplicable anomaly?
There was the sublime, the ridiculous and not a lot inbetween - it was a game of absolute extremes, which is what ensures it will remain long in the memory of anyone who had the pleasure of being at the stadium or watching the game on television.
Didier Drogba put in one of the most intense and overpowering performances you'll ever see from a striker without even scoring a goal (really - doesn't Chelsea's first have to go to Reina?!) He was the one man in this game who, in addition to giving 110 per cent, showed immense quality where Fernando Torres could not. That's what made him the difference between the two sides.
At the other end of the spectrum, who remembers when Petr Cech was rivalling Gigi Buffon as the best goalkeeper in the world? There is sympathy with the Czech glovesman as many perhaps rightly believe that his head trauma sustained against Reading in 2006 has irreparably damaged him as a goalkeeper.
Without making a genuine accusation, Cech honestly had the look of a man who had thrown the game. He made so many inconceivable errors in succession that it defied belief. He was put on edge by set-pieces from the get-go and was humiliated for the first goal and arguably even partially culpable for the second. Arguably his worst two moments came either side of half time, when he did his best David James impressions: coming out, getting nothing and leaving open goals at the Reds' mercy. They went unpunished.
But if Cech was dumb, perhaps Pepe Reina was dumber. He looked the picture perfect portrait of a top class glovesman for the entire first half, until early in the second he decided that a ball dribbling in from the right hand side by his feet was not batted away, not held, but pushed into the net. It gave Chelsea the momentum switch they needed to go on and win the tie.
The common perception was that it would just be one of those nights. Liverpool, the architects of the impossible, even had that little bit of luck. No Gerrard, no problem: Xabi Alonso was awarded a penalty for being held in the penalty area - a genuine offence, but one that is so, so rarely penalised.
But Hiddink showed that even in making mistakes, he can always carve out a result. His half-time team talk must have been something special, because the Blues turned the tables shortly after the break and played with a sense of freedom and superiority; imposing themselves on their visitors and very much making their own luck.
Alex, ponderous all game in defence, pretty much won the tie battering a bullet of a free kick past a helpless Reina. Then it was all Chelsea. Lampard scraped home a third and not even Liverpool's third act twist ever really changed things. Even though it was Liverpool.
Perhaps Rafa will regret not having Gerrard on the bench. Maybe he could have given his team-mates a confidence boost just when they needed it. Given Hiddink and Chelsea something new to think about.
It wasn't to be. This was Chelsea's night and one that will never be forgotten. Now the Blues will face Barcelona, the footballing Gods, in another modern Champions League classic, but can that top this? Can anything? I don't think so. We all want to see the world's best playing fantasy football - the Maradonas and the Messis, the Madrids and the Milans at the peak of their powers - but we sometimes underestimate just how entertaining complete and utter incompetence can be
puta madrid
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i hope porto fuck united so bad.... when was uniteds last defeat ? against milan (3-0). Porto will break the cycle.
Viva Porto ! may united burn in the Dragons Den !!
Viva Porto ! may united burn in the Dragons Den !!
andrijafcb
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That is a result of great Barca's working with a team...
Quash
Ricky Martin clone
Oh my god incredible, Ronaldo scores from 35 yards! Absolute cannon!!
EDIT: miggy, http://www.atdhe.net/live-tv-6288.html
EDIT: miggy, http://www.atdhe.net/live-tv-6288.html
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