How these chancers beat Messi in the previous round I don't know
That was onside. Should have been a pen and red for keeper. Scouse cunts.
'Outloaded'.
Cheers, Glen.
Real are going to batter us. Ronaldo will hang out of Lovren’s backside all night and get a hat trick.
Meanwhile Salah will be busy shooting on sight in order to beat some stupid record.
Lol and another penalty and red. Fucking awful officiating.
If they win, it'll be bigger than Istanbul.
He saved it with his hand stopping an open goal.
Scum v scum in the final, ugh.
Well we tried our best to let them have it. Lol at that pen decision though.
That was so bad.
Oh well - time to concentrate on putting a sackful past Real, which we will definitely need to do. Getting Ramos sent off is probably our best bet.
Save the date lads. May 26th.
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I might have to go and shoot a few Basques to properly get into the sort of Real Madrid supporting mood I'll need to have on that day.
I didn't know that was the final, I'll be at my mate's wedding in Spain and have no idea if I'll see it or not. Possibly a blessing in disguise if the alternative is me sitting trying to decide who I least want to root for.
Yeah tough decision that.
Fuck me they've got a Sean Cox flag.
Nice touch by Hendo, asking that bloke to go and get the Sean Cox banner.
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It won't touch Istanbul but there has probably never been a better time to face Madrid.
Hopefully the Italians who bashed that bloke get away with it like Michael Shields did.
Very few teams in Europe can defend this year. Burnley are probably top 20 at it.
God bless Nick Pope.
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God bless Andrew Robertson.
Some people on here probably need to start coming to terms with things, you know, in a worst case scenario.
Comedy scoreline but Roma were only really in that tie for 20 minutes at the start of the first leg.
The Liverpool 'keeper not appearing to know where his posts were for their third goal seems to have been lost amongst it all.
I thought that, but he was never saving that, nor would any other 'keeper in the world. He's still a disaster waiting to happen, obviously.
Nick Pope would have done.
The final should be fun. Arnold looked shambolic tonight. If Liverpool can hold it together at the back they'll win it.
Andy Robertson was shades of Bale vs Maicon tonight. Him vs Lucas Vazquez RB should be a laugh.
Cool. Marcelo's going to have fun.
I kinda feel like (aside from Ronaldo turning up and destroying everyone) the fullbacks are gonna be the most interesting part. Something like:
Marcelo vs. Salah
Mane vs. whatever random Real find down the back of the sofa to play there
and
Bale vs. Robertson
Ronaldo vs. T A-A
Yet he was excellent against City. He seems very up and down, but I think that is not helped by having Lovren there as well. Positioning comes with age and experience and Lovren needs to speak to him more to get him into the right positions. The centre-halves can see the whole picture and they should dictate what the full-backs do. Plus from what I know he played as a central midfielder for quite a while when he was younger(hence the excellent technique).
Lovren seemed to get off quite lightly for the second goal as well as the commentators rounded on Karius but what on earth he was doing just backing off literally to the penalty spot I have no idea.
Clyne should 100% start the final. Could you imagine Trent trying to muscle Ronaldo off the ball?
I can't imagine Clyne doing that either, to be fair.
Clyne has the opposite problem of being totally useless going forward.
From the depths of Roy Hodgson saying we weren’t too big for a relegation battle to the biggest game in football, the reds are B A C K back.
I've never heard of Graham Roberts before, but he seems to be doing a sterling job of seething himself to death over all things Liverpool at the moment (this maybe should have gone in the Harry Kane thread).
Liverpool aren't going to beat Real Madrid by being defensively solid, they might as well double down and try to score nine.
There's no way on earth Alexander-Arnold does't start the final unless he is injured. I'd be amazed if there are any changes. Midfield is the problem if they let the game get stretched like it was yesterday, but that was probably more situational, with Roma committing a lot of men forward and Liverpool basically leaving three up and not asking them to track back at all to try and get what would have been the absolutely decisive third goal. That sort of way of playing is a bit of an achilles heel for Liverpool as they are unable to not just attack and get embroiled in an end-t-end slugfest, but I don't know if you can really play like that in a game when you aren't heavily behind.
The question isn't whether Liverpool can be solid defensively, more can Real shit one out that way as it's a good way to go against Liverpool? I have my doubts that they can or will set up like that.