Atletico Madrid v Liverpool 8:05 Inter-Railing around Europe Match Thread

Spiritoftheseventies

Mr Alan wrote: »

how the **** is that sub 'stunning' to anyone? A wide player for a wide player? Wats the issue?

Aqua to the power of infinity

NukaCola

So frustrating to watch...

LuckyLloyd

I just wouldn't give them the ball back there tbh. The guy is looking for any opportunity to roll around.

LuckyLloyd

Mr Alan wrote: »

how the **** is that sub 'stunning' to anyone? A wide player for a wide player? Wats the issue?

I'm really at the reaction by Evans and the lads on here

Spiritoftheseventies

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I'm really at the reaction by Evans and the lads on here

FFS. this is painful to watch. We need one man on but its clear Rafa doesnt want to use him.

Babel needs to change his boots! Pity, after good build up

ShamoBuc

Babel is so infuriating.... wants to ... and does....beat 4 players and then falls over

LuckyLloyd

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

FFS. this is painful to watch. We need one man on but its clear Rafa doesnt want to use him.

I fail to see how Aqua would be our saviour tbh. Yossi had been non existent the second half, and had to come off. As such, El Zahr was the obvious choice.

Chardee MacDennis

pepe was freaked there....

ShamoBuc

Given the performance.... happy with the result

romah

acceptable result...still a chance in the tie ...without playing at all

internelligent

Simply painful to watch.

LuckyLloyd

Not a good result, but looking at the flow of the game I'm satisfied that we can do it. There will be goals in it for us. Not ideal, and will be tough, but neither were the first legs against Lille and Benfica...

Kess73

Poor game to watch, but am quite confident of turning it around at Anfield.

We are good at home and Athletico are terrible away this season. Would not surprise me to see a similar scoreline to the Benfica game at Anfield.

Spiritoftheseventies

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I fail to see how Aqua would be our saviour tbh. Yossi had been non existent the second half, and had to come off. As such, El Zahr was the obvious choice.

Bringing Aqua on for Lucas would have been a good substitution. Rafa so negative. Two holding midfiielders = not much creativity.

redout

The chap on Channel five just said Liverpool will consider themselves firm favourites next week

NukaCola

That was hard to watch. Cant believe how flat that performance was...

Iang87

jesus that was ****e

Could and should have been worse.

Poor performance so happy with that result tbh.

They are no great shapes either which made it even more disappointing

Podge2k7

Pure shite tbh. Thats the only way i can describe that. Painful to watch.

Mr Alan

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Bringing Aqua on for Lucas would have been a good substitution. Rafa so negative. Two holding midfiielders = not much creativity.

LUCAS IS NOT A HOLDING MIDFIELDER.

pistolpetes11

Liverpool were a unbelievably ordinary side tonight .

You would have to fancy AM in the second leg if Liverpool play like that again ,

The travel issue this week has not left games on a level playing field which is a bit of disgrace , every game so far the traveling team has been lackluster even the best team in Europe .

Ah well once again a valuable lesson has been learned never put money on Liverpool or lay the team there playing

opr

If I thought it would help I would write a rather long reply on why I think we had better options on the bench. Thing is its only a personal opinion and it may be the wrong but sometimes lads its nice to actually have an opinion on things other than Rafa always right ipso facto questioning it or wishing it was different is retarded.

Opr

Spiritoftheseventies

Mr Alan wrote: »

LUCAS IS NOT A HOLDING MIDFIELDER.

Plaguerist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A65177616

mike65

Meh I think. I think Rafa got his starting 11 wrong to be honest and Babel should try to get some decent studs for his boots. Sh1te pitch as I mentioned earlier, maybe we get spoilt looking at the green beize of Anfield and Ashburton Grove.

kingshankly

Poor result no goal which could prove detremental . Have lost count of the terrible performances this season, we are a terrible team to watch lately, hopefully we can turn it round next week

NukaCola

Mr Alan wrote: »

LUCAS IS NOT A HOLDING MIDFIELDER.

Aquilani is more creative and attacking though.
FFS Ath Madrid have won 11 games in their league this season and are 44 points behind Barca, would it have hurted to play a more attacking side? We were ****e against a very poor Madrid team....

Spiritoftheseventies

Thank god for Kirsty

LuckyLloyd

opr wrote: »

If I thought it would help I would write a rather long reply on why I think we had better options on the bench. Thing is its only a personal opinion and it may be the wrong but sometimes lads its nice to actually have an opinion on things other than Rafa always right ipso facto questioning it or wishing it was different is retarded.

Opr

That works both ways and you know it.

pistolpetes11

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Thank god for Kirsty

She has just made the last 90 minutes of Sh1te worthwhile :pac:

murpho999

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

She has just made the last 90 minutes of Sh1te worthwhile :pac:

Does nothing for me....fake blonde and too skinny....seen more meat on an x-ray!

CSF

The TV3 pundits are hilarious, talking about Atletico like some obscure eastern European team that people wouldn't know much about.

monkey9

Really bad performance tonight, i thought! Nobody really stood out (maybe Reina, just for that stunning save). As SOTS said, it was really laboured.

The Five commentators have being wrecking my head in saying that one nil is a decent result. It's not.

The negatives going into the second leg:

Atletico have been going through on away goals in this competition

No Torres.

Positives: They have been sh!t in La Liga, worse than us!

Anfield crowd behind us.

Play Dirk up alongside Ngog!

Spiritoftheseventies

Okay who texted in about Gerrard. Hands up

Liverpools midfield was poor tonight.

There was **** all support for Ngog.

Lucas isnt a holding midfielder but his instuctions didnt include getting into the box much tonight.

He wasnt alone though, all our mids had a shocker attacking wise.

murpho999

Lucas must have an iPhone in the dressing room. 'His' twitter is updated

LucasLeiva21

That was the last straw. Dirk pointing and repeating 'hes a fairy, hes a fairy without the wings'. I lunged for him. Sammy Lee held me back.

Dirks in the changing rooms blaming me for the loss. I 'shouldve been back marking Forlan'. Im a pacifist but this is a real test for me.

Really disappointed. We wanted that away goal. Looking forward and seeing Ngog, Nabil, Babel and Dirk makes Lucas want to return to Gremio

Boggles

Wow that was a tough watch.

Worst Liverpool side I have seen in some time.

Saying that the Spaniards were awful aswell.

Couldn't give too hoots about the 2nd leg. Load o' Shíté!!!

I fcuking hate Twitter

Nalz

Mr Alan wrote: »

LUCAS IS NOT A HOLDING MIDFIELDER.

LUCAS IS NOT A GOOD FOOTBALLER

Boggles

Boggles wrote: »

Couldn't give too hoots about the 2nd leg. Load o' Shíté!!!

I bet you're here next Thursday though

Boggles

rarnes1 wrote: »

I bet you're here next Thursday though

No chance, not after that. They should be made walk back to Liverpool.

LuckyLloyd

Trilla wrote: »

LUCAS IS NOT A GOOD FOOTBALLER

Spiritoftheseventies

Mr Alan and LL. Do you really think this team is going in right direction. Its plain to see their is no fluidity in team. We were a mess tonight. Are we missing something?

Boggles

Boggles wrote: »

No chance, not after that. They should be made walk back to Liverpool.

Bet you are !

I agree with your 2nd point. Barefoot.

Boggles

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Mr Alan and LL. Do you really think this team is going in right direction. Its plain to see their is no fluidity in team. We were a mess team. Are we missing something?

About 8 players and a manager.

K-9

Boggles wrote: »

Wow that was a tough watch.

Worst Liverpool side I have seen in some time.

Saying that the Spaniards were awful aswell.

Couldn't give too hoots about the 2nd leg. Load o' Shíté!!!

At least some good came out of tonight.

mike65

Trilla wrote: »

LUCAS IS NOT A GOOD FOOTBALLER

Usual uniformed BS, Lucas is being asked to sacrifice his natural game which is much closer to this

http://www.soccerclips.net/videos/liverpool-2-0-benfica-lucas

Jazzy

Boggles wrote: »

About 8 players and a manager.

with ntlbell to thank the post

boom!

Boggles

mike65 wrote: »

Lucas is being asked to sacrifice his natural game which is much closer to this

They should get Lucas to sacrifice Babel. How the fúck is he getting paid to play football?

LuckyLloyd

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Mr Alan and LL. Do you really think this team is going in right direction. Its plain to see their is no fluidity in team. We were a mess tonight. Are we missing something?

We were great against West Ham, Benfica, Portsmouth, Lille...

It was a tough away fixture after preparations that were less than ideal (to say the least), and the team still had chances to get an away goal.