This Weeks Champions League

eirebhoy

Here's a few of McGeady's clips from the Copenhagen match. It shows how different he is to 12 months ago when he'd just try to beat his man at every opportunity. It shows him crossing, tracking back, taking on players and pulling off 1 or 2 tricks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_c9O3YVzM

Mad Dog

Group A

Levski Sofia v Chelsea -Away
Werder Bremen v Barcelona - Away

Group B

Internazionale v Bayern Munich - Home
Spartak Moscow v Sporting Lisbon - Home

Group C

Bordeaux v PSV Eindhoven - Away
Liverpool v Galatasaray - Home

Group D

Shakhtar Donetsk v Olympiakos - Away
Valencia v Roma - Home

mike65

Liverpool line up

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Reina
Finnan---Carra--Agger---Aurelio
Pennant-Gerrard-Alonso-Garcia

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Crouch/Kuyt

bench Dudek Hyypia Bellamy Riise Gonzalez Sissoko Zenden

Mike.

Kojak

Group A
Levski Sofia v Chelsea -Away
Werder Bremen v Barcelona - Away

Group B
Internazionale v Bayern Munich - Draw
Spartak Moscow v Sporting Lisbon - Draw

Group C
Bordeaux v PSV Eindhoven - Away
Liverpool v Galatasaray - Home

Group D
Shakhtar Donetsk v Olympiakos - Home
Valencia v Roma - Home

kinaldo

I'm having great difficulty in deciding what match to watch alongside Liverpool on the telly - Valencia v Roma or Inter v Bayern?

Mossin

Liverpool 1-0 Crouch scores.

Mossin

Liverpool 2-0 Luis Garcia

Mossy Monk

Chelsea are 1-0 at half time

great goal by Drogba

Tusky

PHB wrote:

Indeed, it's incredible that they have managed to Arsenal and Liverpool them in the league last year, and that they are above them in the league this year. Must be magic.

Also it's an interesting first 11:

VDS
Neville-Ferdinand-Vidic

Ronaldo-Carrick-O'Shea-Scholes-Giggs

Saha-Rooney

A 3-5-2 with one fullback? Pretty odd.

I left out Heinz because I havent seen enough of him to comment and added in Giggs because he has been one of your best players of late ? Never intended it to make up a starting 11. Maybe I worded it badly.

In regards to last season, that was last season. Im talking about this season...where Liverpool, Arsenal & Chelsea have strengthened their squad, I dont feel Man Utd have. As previously said, Man Utd have had easy enough opposition so far. I dont think they have the debt of squad in the long run.

This isnt meant as an attack on you or Man Utd...why cant you see what plenty of other utd fans can ? Its no big secret...

zAbbo

Goal of the century!

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Crouch!!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

el rabitos

peter van basten

Mossin

Liverpool 3-0 Crouch again

What a fantastic Scissors Kick, Finnan with a great ball in, and a stunning strike by the big man.

evad_lhorg

what a fooking goal!!!

Jimi-Spandex

How about that for a slice of fried gold?

galwaydude

that was some goal by crouchinho, great skill by the bigman.

Mossin

Goal back for Galatasary, 3-1 to the Pool now, poor defending though.

mike65

Yikes we've let one in! :eek:

Mike.

Xavi6

A fully deserved goal. The crosses from Galatasary have been excellent all game. 3-0 was a little flattering for Liverpool.

evad_lhorg

yous shoulda had a 4th.


werder bremen are 1 up against Barca. Puyol og.

Mossin

3-2 Pool...

Getting interesting now..
Another great cross and good finish

Xavi6

get in! defensive frailties shown again. garcia and aurelio are such liabilities defensively.

evad_lhorg

3-2 now. same guy scores for galatasaray. good cross again

wheres me jumpa

Entertaining game.

evad_lhorg

Ibrahimovic off for Inter Milan . Psv now 1-0 up

evad_lhorg

Drogba hatrick for chelsea

evad_lhorg

Pizarro for Bayern.

evad_lhorg

Messi for Barca. everything is turning out good for my fantasy team!

Mossin

The Pool just hang on in the end 3-2.

Xavi6

evad_lhorg wrote:

Messi for Bayern:D

You mean Barca....

wheres me jumpa

Pool game was good game to watch, clearly the better team but just nearly let them back into it.

Big Nelly

wheres me jumpa wrote:

Pool game was good game to watch, clearly the better team but just nearly let them back into it.

Only came in half way thru the first half, Galastsary looked very good and a couple of great crosses which should have been scored. Liverpool where over run in the second half after a great goal by Crouch!!!

Xavi6

Yes podolski the hero!! On as a sub in the 89th and bags one in the 91st. Does wonders for my Fantasy League points total this week.

Mossin

Not much luck predicting correct results tonight, only 2/8 correct as opposed to 7/8 last night, some interesting results though.

Werder 1-1 with Barca is a great result for the Germans.
Inter 0-2 Bayern is another good win for the Deutsche.

mike65

Hakan Sas, did'nt he play for Basel once?

Liverpool nearly paid for not having Sissoko on the field. Not Carras best night either.

Bring back Dudek.

Mike.

Xavi6

mike65 wrote:

Hakan Sas, did'nt he play for Basel once?

Nope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Sas

Maybe you're thinking of Hakan Yakin?

mike65

Hasan/Haken yep my mistake!

Mike.

evad_lhorg

just saw levski sofias goal against chelsea. what a great goal!!!

gandalf

All I can say is Crouch's goal was a peach, how can someone so arkward looking score such a beautiful goal. Liverpool were lucky against Galatasaray in the end as they were the stronger team towards the end. Should be an interesting game for them in Turkey.

mike65

Goal!Did I just do that?:eek:

Mike.

DaBreno

Phew. Someone mentioned Istanbul so the Pool took it as an invitation to throw on another spectacle. thankfully they stopped short of a 3 nil down comeback. Excellent game tonight from Crouchy, he seems to have established himself as our most potent striker. Jermaine Pennant gave us his best performance so far tonight - creative, dangerous and hard working. Keep it up lad. Solid games too from Luis and Agger. We looked brilliant going forward tonight.

We got caught badly on our left however. Auerlio is not coping at all with the posistion he's been given and Garcia cant be counted on to support him, Gonzo seems more up to that task. We need Riise back in there Stat. And buy another left back in January.

does anyone think Reina needs a rest?

Nalz

i mentioned the whole reina thing before only to be shot down by the pool crew on this site...i needent mention any names!

he needs to be dropped... im not gonna have a haha session like every pool fan had at me when Taibi came to United, but Reina is way to inconsistant and dodgy between the sticks

herbieflowers

yeah, it seems to be transmitted to the four defenders in front of him too - the lack of confidence and inconsistency that is...

eirebhoy

You could see the nervousness in Reina's smile when Finnan shouted at him for not collecting. He's just lacking confidence.

Chardee MacDennis

anyone got a link to the pool goals?

swalsh

Liverpool were great tonight for the first 20 minutes then their weaknesses really started to show not just on the pitch but also in the team that rafa picked. The attack minded selection worked fantastically at the start but the lack of a stronghold in midfield with the ability to pass the ball around and kill of the game nearly caught Liverpool and other teams will see this weakness as inspiration against what I feel are a team that could contend for a lot of honours this season.
Luis Garcia showed again tonight how frustrating he can be to Liverpool supporters, and I know I am one. He produced some magical touches and scored a great goal but does he close his eyes for most of the game?? His passes were very wayward throughout the game.
Substitutions should have been made earlier by Rafa to kill off the game and the big one that should have been made is Sissoko. The difference that he brings to the team through his strength is essential especially in the European game.
Defensively liverpool were at 6's and 7's and it essential that agger and carragher learn each others games and communicate with each other better. Aurello did not impress me much tonight although I know that there is alot of potential there, but maybe not in such a defensive role. If the formation was a 5-3-2 playing 2 proper wing backs it would probably suit him far better as there would be sufficient cover for him.
The best moment of the night I feel was Crouch's goal for 2 reasons.
1. The workup to the goal and finish were Liverpool at their best even though it took a bit of luck for Finnan to get the ball and
2. Garcias and Crouchs reaction!! Class

revileandy

If anyone has a link to crouch's goal I'd really appreciate it! Can't find anything in youtube

Ronan|Raven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3y3ss_45E

redspider

I had thought before the game that Crouch would play and he did. It was a good display by Liverpool, but mainly going forward and in the first half. The defence was shaky. Agger and the combo of Aurelio and Garcia on the left hand side was exploited by Galatasaray. Both Aurelio and Garcia were very good going forward though. And Liverpool missed a Sissoko type of player in the centre.

To be fair to Galatasaray, they did something similar to what Liverpool did
in the CL final when 3-0 down, and just pushed for either making it 3-1 or 4-0. All their crosses had 3 or 4 men in the box. They took risks and were lucky as Kuyt hit the post (inside of it too) and that would have made it 4-0, or was that before Crouch's overhead goal. It was a good game, high tempo, and much better than premiership 'entertainment' and indeed many other Liverpool games. But from a football management point of view, games like this are risky and not stable. It could have been 3-3.

Redspider

ButcherOfNog

The game last nite shows just how big a player Sissoko is for pool now, really missed him. Aurelio put in some great crosses and passes, but at the back hes pretty hopeless esp with no cover in front of him like he had with Garcia last nite. Him and Riise could work as a pairing on that flank tho.