Inter vs Liverpool discussion thread!!

COTR wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

A Tribe Called TS wrote:No Figo, Jiminez or Suazo

Didn't Mancini learn from the 1st leg ?

Even if Liverpool aren't particularly adventurous, they love to squeeze things hight up the pitch. Which Inter players has the technique and dribbling ability to withstand such pressure ? Figo & Jiminez

Which Inter forward has the pace can get that Slow defence to turn around ? Suazo.

Babel and Torres

They will rape Inter's reserve defence on the counter, leaving COTR with about 5 years worth of "Torres can score in big games" amunition

Inter, Marseille, chelsea, porto

And you have an excuse for every one pierre

Luis wrote: welcome back CT!

Puro wrote:

COTR wrote:
Puro i'm not expecting you to understand but I'll give it a quick go anyway.

We have two world class players in the team. One is gerrard and the other is torres. Now rafa has found a formation to allow gerrard and torres to link together brilliantly. With gerrard in the middle you are restricting one of your world class players to defensive duties and losing out because of this. This is the reason we were not doing as well. It was not a direct result of gerrard being in the middle but it was a direct result of losing gerrard's skills higher up the pitch

See if you can get your head around that mate before getting back to me

Tell me something I don't know COTR! I have said for three years plus (Pierre can vouch for me on this, probably LRD too) that Gerrard's best position was floating behind the forward AWAY from central midfield BECAUSE he doesn't have the BRAINS to dictate midfield play. Gerrard's better reacting to the play rather than THINK about what to do. It's got nothing to do with Torres. You can even put CROUCH up front AND Gerrard will do much better floating behind CROUCH than asking Mr inspirational captain to THINK in central midfield.

YOU used to say Gerrard is at his best playing in central midfield. Some of you don't know the game I'm telling you. You think you know it though.

COTR wrote:Let's just say rafa has realised that he can leave the grafting up to the less talented players and let gerrard get on with proving he is one of the very best players in the world

Batigol! wrote:

Ibra was $h!t, much worse than Cruz and I can't believe you guys let yourself get sucked into his few flicks. Once again the man fails to show up when most needed. I disagree with Swarpy judging him on his goal tally this season. Zlatan provides much more than that, his creativity is unmatched and his link up play is sublime. He has had a fantastic season.

COTR wrote:
you didn't get it mate so I was telling you something you don't know

Let's just say rafa has realised that he can leave the grafting up to the less talented players and let gerrard get on with proving he is one of the very best players in the world

Gerrard could perform the role lucas did today incredibly comfortably. The problem is we would then have no one as good as gerrard to play further up the pitch. I hope this is now simple enough for you to understand

Puro wrote:

COTR wrote:
you didn't get it mate so I was telling you something you don't know

Let's just say rafa has realised that he can leave the grafting up to the less talented players and let gerrard get on with proving he is one of the very best players in the world

Gerrard could perform the role lucas did today incredibly comfortably. The problem is we would then have no one as good as gerrard to play further up the pitch. I hope this is now simple enough for you to understand

Everton game early in the season. Rafa removes the garbage from central midfield and puts in there a young player a foreigner by the name of Lucas making his debut in the league. The young Brazilian goes on to inspire Liverpool for the win. Do you not remember that match COTR! You must've forgotten what Rafa said in the post match interview regarding your hero Gerrard.

COTR wrote:

Puro wrote:

COTR wrote:
you didn't get it mate so I was telling you something you don't know

Let's just say rafa has realised that he can leave the grafting up to the less talented players and let gerrard get on with proving he is one of the very best players in the world

Gerrard could perform the role lucas did today incredibly comfortably. The problem is we would then have no one as good as gerrard to play further up the pitch. I hope this is now simple enough for you to understand

Everton game early in the season. Rafa removes the garbage from central midfield and puts in there a young player a foreigner by the name of Lucas making his debut in the league. The young Brazilian goes on to inspire Liverpool for the win. Do you not remember that match COTR! You must've forgotten what Rafa said in the post match interview regarding your hero Gerrard.

You haven't even discussed my points so I can assume you have nothing to combat them with
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Raiphael wrote:

Mancini now wants to leave the Club at the end of the season, do you blame him after today’s scandalous finishing. Thought Zanetti (legend) and Cambiasso had good games same for Gerrard & Lucas.

COTR wrote:Apparantly Stank = Footballer

shazlx wrote:

Raiphael wrote:

Mancini now wants to leave the Club at the end of the season, do you blame him after today’s scandalous finishing. Thought Zanetti (legend) and Cambiasso had good games same for Gerrard & Lucas.

He was either giving the ball away or passing it backwards. Made a couple of defensive mistakes that nearly lead to a Pool goal. He would also make Lampard-esque runs into the box that lead to nowhere and tried to track back usually failing and was generally Cr@p. The worse CM in the game by quite some distance and one of the worse players on the pitch.

De Guzman wrote:Cambiasso, Stankovic & Cruz are all good enough to play in a CL winning team. Pity Dejan isn't 100% matchfit.

S4P wrote: Stank-of-fish was awful (again).

Glenn Hysén wrote:

COTR wrote:

Glenn Hysén wrote:

you are a flat track bully glenda

stop picking on these $h!t teams at home


our love for torres grows ever deeper

shazlx wrote:

S4P wrote: Stank-of-fish was awful (again).

I don't know why Blue9 bothers to hype him. He has never been anything special and he keeps flopping.

TheCrazy58 wrote:BTW, that was Cassano watching in the stands wasn't it?

L r d wrote:

Luis wrote:I'm really confident about tuesday with the way we're playing at the moment, I just think Torres can score any time any place right now and if he gets a chance on tuesday that ball is hitting the back of Inter's net.

He isnt playing against a mid table/relegation epl team at home this time luis. He wont get a kick at the san siro.

bluenine wrote:Congrats to Liverpool, you guys deserve to go through. Whatever some people say here, Liverpool did play 2 good solid games, and are in good form at the right time. Thats what you need to succeed in games like this, I cannot understand why anyone should doubt that Liverpool deserve their win.

I am totally gutted. I knew that the game was lost in the first leg, but its still hurts as much now.

Unlike some people here, I don't think we can blame the refrees... like Cambiasso said after the game, it is pointless. If we can blame anyone, its Materazzi and Burdisso who IMO are the main reason why we lost. Players like these need to be disciplined, and need to be more cautious coz of their reputations. The lack of maturity of some of our players is sickening (and now I include Vieira and Ibra), the amount of times we have played with 10 men this season is not funny.... as if the number of injuries this season was not enough!!! This has to stop!

Apart from that, I can't really blame the players or the coach. There were many players coming out of injuries (chivu, stankovic, vieira, Ibra, cruz, etc), and most of them worked hard over the 2 games... this is not like Villareal or Valencia, this is different. The team tried hard, we just had 2 idiots too many!

Tweedle wrote:Great result for Liverpool.

Didn't get to see the game unfortunately but I heard the Torres goal was class, so congrats to him. He's almost better than Bent