Group E: LIVERPOOL, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debrecen

I'm happy with that.

Nice to have a whipping boy this year and Lyon and Fiorentina are both beatable.

Fiorentina should top the group. Lyon and Liverpool battle it out for 2nd place. Lyon will probably take it.

fiorentina is not really a quality side

when i look at last year, and they lost melo

Yeh they had a pretty mediocre mercato. Still didn't buy a CB to partner Gamberini.

Lyon and Fiorentina wont be easy games

Liverpool will be first then Lyon or Fiorentina.
I think Lyon is much stronger than last year,, although we sold Benzema and no longer have Juninho, but the new players we bought for 74m euros have adapted well, especially Lisandro. It is going be interesting games.

Alive and Kicking wrote:Liverpool will be first then Lyon or Fiorentina.
I think Lyon is much stronger than last year,, although we sold Benzema and no longer have Juninho, but the new players we bought for 74m euros have adapted well, especially Lisandro. It is going be interesting games.

Glad Liverpool wont have to face Juninho's free Kicks....

Realitively happy with the draw.

Only real worry is both Lyon and Fiorentina's attack which correct me if I'm wrong, look to be their main asset.. even still we should be be looking to top group. Lyon will no doubt finish 2nd in my mind with Lisandro and Gomis leading their line.

Alberto and Monti fighting it out for a starting spot in South Africa!

Oooh another French team. At least it isn't Marseille again.

Liverpool's group fixtures:

September
16 Debreceni VSC (H)
29 Fiorentina (a)

October
20 Lyon (H)

November
4 Lyon (a)
24 Debreceni VSC (a)

December
9 Fiorentina (H)

I'd say it won't be easy for Liverpool.

Lyon look very good this year

HUNGARY! HUNGARY! HUNGARY!

Are you sure those girls are Hungarian?

Yes. Hungarian beauties from the Hungarian Formula One innit

I forgot you were Hungarian TWERP.

I was Hungarian this afternoon, so I had a sandwich.

Very good Glenn. Sharp

I've already spoken to my Hungarian relatives to lock their doors and bolt down all moveable objects when the thieving scousers arrive.

Why is Liverpool written in capital letters? This is a discrimination of the other teams!

Should be an easy start to the campaign on Wednesday, I'll be happy with anything over 3-0 to us, I think we'll go with this team:

------------------------Reina--------------------------------------

---Glenn----------Carra-----------Greek fella-----------Insua---------

----------------Masch-----------------Lucas------------------------------

-------Kuyt----------------Stevie---------------------Benayoun-------

-------------------------------Torres------------------------------------

Subs: Cavlieri, Skrtel, Aurellio, Riera, Babel, Voronin, Ngog

Luis wrote:Should be an easy start to the campaign on Wednesday, I'll be happy with anything over 3-0 to us, I think we'll go with this team:

------------------------Reina--------------------------------------

---Glenn----------Carra-----------Greek fella-----------Insua---------

----------------Masch-----------------Lucas------------------------------

-------Kuyt----------------Stevie---------------------Benayoun-------

-------------------------------Torres------------------------------------

Subs: Cavlieri, Skrtel, Aurellio, Riera, Babel, Voronin, Ngog

Spot the real fan

I'm going for a shock 1-1 draw for the galloping magyars. Woop Woop

That was bloody awful.

I hate the arrogance we showed tonight, players thinking it`s enough just turning up.

Torres is starting to worry me and has been for a few games now. He has been well below par. What`s bugging me is not just that he isn't performing, Too bad we dont have any option, as he could use a match or 2 starting on the bench to get a kick up the backside.

Gerrard's finishing was well below par and he had alot of a sloppy passes also. Looking forward to Aquilani coming back so Gerrard can move forward again and we still have someone in the centre of midfield is very capable of hurting the opponent while on the ball.

The rest of the attacking force such as Riera, Johnson, Yossi and Kuyt only ever looked convincing once or twice each in the game.

Lucas played very well, my Motm.

All in all, it's still three points and a clean sheet. But. Very much glad the match is over

Oh and Ray Houghton, Dunphy, Macca and Townsend...


calling out for Gerrard to play up front after spending years banging the drum about him playing in midfield..

I'm worried about the pressure on Aquilani's shoulders. Everyone thinks he's going to come in, be amazing and we'll all forget about Alonso. Might not be the case, he might need time to adapt to the English game. Don't even know who Rafa's going to drop for him, he clearly is a big fan of Lucas so it might not be the straight swap that everyone seems to think will happen.

Agree on Torres, against Burnley and tonight he was shocking. Maybe he misses Gerrard linking up with him in a 4-5-1 but he didn't look happy or assed tonight.

If we turn up to West Ham and play like that on Saturday evening we'll get beat for sure.

we played just as poorly at times when Alonso was in the team. We got the 3 points and hopefully tonight will be a kick up the backside for some.

No one has mentioned Babel as far as I can see, I thought he did well. Lucas too, perhaps we slipped into some weird alternative universe.

sad that Gila got sent off.... Lyon-Viola could ve been an interesting contest.... now it looks like Fiorentina are going to go out...

bluenine wrote:sad that Gila got sent off.... Lyon-Viola could ve been an interesting contest.... now it looks like Fiorentina are going to go out...

It *always* looked like Fiorentina were going out

Most overrated club by a country mile on these boards.

Axeslammer wrote:

bluenine wrote:sad that Gila got sent off.... Lyon-Viola could ve been an interesting contest.... now it looks like Fiorentina are going to go out...

It *always* looked like Fiorentina were going out

Most overrated club by a country mile on these boards.

Did ya watch the game Axe? I saw the highlights, and it looked like Fiorentina were doing fine till the harsh red card...

bluenine wrote:
Did ya watch the game Axe?

Nope, haven't seen anything.

It's just because I predicted Fiorentina wouldn't go through, that I couldn't resist posting