Jenks
Senior Member
I agree with everything you say, except the excessive emphasis on who the coach is.
But I will have to stress Liverpool's youthfulness once more. A somewhat ageing team, such as ours, cannot ever hope to match Liverpool's intensity, especially over a span of games. Even in a two-legged tie, there can be no other outcome than Liverpool more or less outrunning us. What is vital for us, is to keep this gap as small as possible, and hope that our small advantage in technical ability (mostly through Messi) will win the day.
The gap in midfield is not small. Liverpool's midfield can't keep the ball under pressure.