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Genuinely pleased for our Liverpool supporting mates.
I see how it is Jeterpool. Favoritism at its finest... (See my earlier comment regarding the win)
Also, with all this Arsenal fans love on your great day, I am expecting some reciprocating love on Friday morning when we try to do the impossible and.... Play well on the road!!
I enjoyed that game very much, loved the 4th. Also loved the 2nd when Alba just gave up. Great game.
I had to watch 2nd 1/2 with Footylight ticker at work.
Goose bumps...all over.
Granted the 1st leg scoreline and opposition, is this the biggest comeback in European football history?
It's being discussed but is debatable.
I still think the PSG v Barca game was a bigger comeback. I remember watching that game and laughing at how unbelievable it was. It gets my vote.
Biggest for Liverpool - possibly. Throw Dortmund in there, the drama around Olympiacos, Istanbul (of course) to name but a few.
Don't get me wrong it was absolutely amazing, however.
Biggest comeback is a huge call.
I would say Istanbul was a bigger comeback than this game, 3-0 down at halftime in a CL final to a brilliant AC Milan side. This Barcelona result doesn't even compare to that.
I want to enjoy this moment but we still haven't won anything yet. We need to do the job on a decent Wolverhampton and hope Gypo Ryan gets a clean sheet. If we can somehow we the league and come home from Madrid as Champions, all these years of torture would have been worth it.
Surely Hawk had wifi on his yacht to watch the game yeah?
Fair play Liverpool
not sure if anyone else pays attention to Martin Tyler the way I do, but there was such a level of inevitability in his voice today. He 'knew' it was happening, because hed seen it so many times.
If you go back and isolate the commentary on the goals he doesnt even get 'that' excited. not that hes one of these american style lunatics, but he was all like, "yep here we go again, sit back and enjoy folks, but this aint my first rodeo".
so who are Liverpool gonna buy with the $150m they get for Origi?
gotta admit, the "**** off Suarez" chant was pretty funny.
Live in a Liverpool household but I don't support them - I now have to wear a Scouse shirt for a photo after losing a bet ffs..
Well done to them for that though.
Roma did almost identical to this comeback last year against Barca, 4-1 loss away into 3-0 win at home. If anything, that was bigger because it was first - now it's just seemingly a Barca trend :oops:
Agreed with others, it isn't even Liverpool's biggest CL comeback.
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I guess with the comeback I had in my mind the fact that Mo and Bobby weren't in the team either.
The write off factor after the away leg was a huge mountain to climb. Nobody gave them a chance.
Istanbul:- we effectively did that without Harry :blush::blink:
I wouldn't want to be Jurgen Klopp come team selection time in June.
Does he go wiith Shaqiri and Origi now of if fit, do Firmino and Salah slot straight back in?
That last goal
Can anyone explain how 11 elite players switched off like that??
You see 1 or 2 guys in a team turn off and make a glaring mistake but to see 11 guys do it is surreal
To do it at 3-3 on agg in a UCL semi with 15 to go is scandalous
That goal was that bad that I don't think I could even live long enough to see the Jets do it
Win unbelievable game, check. slip up on the final game, check check. You have been warned.
I was showing my kids the highlights today and that goal in particular. One of the replays from behind shows ter Stegen 'clapping encouragement'
looking out at his players whilst TAA is knocking in the quick corner to Origi. :rof:
If you watch it again, they can't cry foul on the ball incident either. TAA wins the corner, the ball bounces back of the advertising ball
back out (or in?) to Origi. TAA gets another ball, puts in the corner arc and THAT's the ball that's next multi ball in play. Don't see that? GTFO.
Origi kicks said 'dead ball' to a ball boy who picks it up. Don't see that? GTFO.
They're all standing around like stale bottles of p!ss when TAA doubles back and hits it in.
As Agent Smith says when Neo bleeds in Reloaded: Only human...
This Ajax team don’t fear anybody. And are playing out of their skins. If we sorry for them, they are going to get raided over the summer.
Hopefully, we can assume the role of the “superior” team. I feel like we have been that “have a crack at anybody” type of team over the last few years, but when like the final last year, when up against teams that know how to win like Madrid who have world class experiences player who can shut games down.
I’m nervous.
It makes me chuckle.
It’s the same as getting a free kick. Placing it down and banging it in before there’s a chance to mark out the wall. (Provided nobody asks for the 10yds). It’s against convention but totally legal. They completely assumed it would be a big ceremonial corner where we wait for our big men to come forward etc.
I’m actually interested to hear truthfully if this was planned. When I played state league 19s we devised a similar plan for free kicks that weren’t ceremonial where one person placed the ball and pretended to start pacing out their run up, while another ran and kicked it.
I feel like you’d never expect Barcelona to not pay attention though.
I know TAA and Wijnaldum devised a plan a few weeks ago when they noticed something in the first half.
TAA has so much potential. Can see him being next Captain if he is the leadership type.
I need to step away from the football for a bit.
It's all a bit much at the moment.
I have a severe hatred of teams not putting men on the posts for corners. And I don't give a shit what your Ron Smith's say about the stats etc relating to the topic, I doubt I'll ever be convinced otherwise. I find it genuinely criminal that coaches would allow blokes like Ben Kennedy & Vedran Janjetovic the freedom to have their posts empty, and I froth every time a simple goal could have been stopped by having guys there goes in. Which brings me to Liverpool's 4th from yesterday, if Barca had men on posts by default then the space the corner found wouldn't have been free as there would have been more foot traffic in that area - the post man probably would have been running in that exact spot heading for his post at that time. That goal was music to my ears solely from a post man perspective, and it got even better thinking about the instinct & vision relating to it in general.
Post game Klopp said that he emphasised to the players that they had to be unpredictable. He said Barca were structured and great knowing where they needed to be, that if Liverpool went a bit wacky then they might not be ready for it.
He freely admitted that telling the players was easy, and that 'doing it' was difficult. He said the TAA corner was a perfect example, but that even Klopp had no idea he was gonna do it.
Again, the coach had every chance there to tell the world how clever he is, but he deferred to the players. As soon as I heard that comment for some reason I thought of Scott Miller and chuckled.
So if City fail to beat Brighton, and they win, Liverpool fans will be forever indebted to a Gypo.
Ethical dilemma.
Well...it was looking good there...for about 55 seconds. :blink::facepalm:
Yehhh. Despite knowing City are better than losing to Brighton, and there was a stack of time left, it was hard not to feel a glimmer of hope.
In the end, I’m not disappointed. We have had a great season. One loss. 3rd biggest points total. Bar two amazing city seasons. It’s sucks a season this good doesn’t win. 25 points clear of 3rd. If you told me we’d be playing on the last day with a Chance to win I’d have taken that.
Unless City, lose a few players, it’s hard to see them not being favourites for next season too.
Well done to them.
Now you can focus on the UCL and smash Spurs
If you have to lose a title. Lose it to one of the greatest EPL sides of all time.* Sorry boys, please listen to Stanny on this one and beats spuds in the UCL. A UCL title is better than a league title anyway.
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