Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last 16.......2nd leg at Anfield. Not the easiest draw.

1 hour ago, wilai said:

Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last 16.......2nd leg at Anfield. Not the easiest draw.

W7D8L2. Nah should be a doddle with the form you lot are in.

4 hours ago, wilai said:

Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last 16.......2nd leg at Anfield. Not the easiest draw.

1st leg is 18th Feb. This coincides with the 'Winter Break' for the Premier League when we are due to play Norwich away.. If it pans out in our favour, the Norwich game will be 8/9 Feb giving us a full week+ to prepare. Will the Premier League and TV companies do the right thing....for once?

16 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

W7D8L2. Nah should be a doddle with the form you lot are in.

La Liga form doesn't exactly count in a CL play-off match. Simeone is a master at beating perceived superior opposition. Happy there second leg is at home. 

Real don't appear too much better, you should beat them. 

25 minutes ago, BangrakBob said:

La Liga form doesn't exactly count in a CL play-off match. Simeone is a master at beating perceived superior opposition. Happy there second leg is at home. 

Real don't appear too much better, you should beat them. 

I hope you are right, and we draw liverpool or spurs in the next round.

Has your postponed WHU game got a rescheduled date yet?

4 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Has your postponed WHU game got a rescheduled date yet?

TBC

Villa 5-0 LFC. Not an unsurprising result but the kids (9 teens playing against 8 full internationals) started well, were the better team for the first 15 mins and didn't let their heads drop in the 2nd half, despite being 0-4 down at half time.

 

As expected Elliott (16 yrs old) was probably the pick but a lack of a cutting edge (Glatzel and Brewster both inj and Curtis Jones with the 1st XI didn't help) cost us although we still had 8 shots on target and Villa's keeper needed to make a number of good saves.

 

Great experience for the kids despite the scoreline and hopefully they will learn a lot from it. 

 

For the stats buffs/quiz masters amongst you, the average age was 19 years 182 days according to Sky.

1 hour ago, wilai said:

Villa 5-0 LFC. Not an unsurprising result but the kids (9 teens playing against 8 full internationals) started well, were the better team for the first 15 mins and didn't let their heads drop in the 2nd half, despite being 0-4 down at half time.

 

As expected Elliott (16 yrs old) was probably the pick but a lack of a cutting edge (Glatzel and Brewster both inj and Curtis Jones with the 1st XI didn't help) cost us although we still had 8 shots on target and Villa's keeper needed to make a number of good saves.

 

Great experience for the kids despite the scoreline and hopefully they will learn a lot from it. 

 

For the stats buffs/quiz masters amongst you, the average age was 19 years 182 days according to Sky.

The seniors will avenge this loss for the kids at Anfield. Still farcical we had to play this match today

2 hours ago, BangrakBob said:

Still farcical we had to play this match today

Totally agree with you, though it used to be quite common practice back in the day and even not so long ago:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2019/dec/17/mark-hughes-two-games-day-wales-bayern-munich-liverpool

 

3 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Totally agree with you, though it used to be quite common practice back in the day and even not so long ago:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/that-1980s-sports-blog/2019/dec/17/mark-hughes-two-games-day-wales-bayern-munich-liverpool

 

And I already responded to this the first time you posted it. 

On 12/11/2019 at 2:49 PM, wilai said:

Think I mentioned it after the first RB Salzburg game, but I hope we go for Minamino......Perfect heir to Firmino.????

Medical due today. Fingers crossed he passes it. If things go as planned he can play his first game against the trickies in the FA Cup.

3 hours ago, BangrakBob said:

And I already responded to this the first time you posted it. 

Thought the article i posted, which you reckon you previously responded to, was from yesterday. Been in the Tardis again?

 

 

Van Dijk out with an illness, Mane, Firmino on the bench. Hendo and Milner in the back four!

Another 2-1 win. Firmino with the last minute winner just five minutes after coming on. Keita with another goal set up well by Salah. Those two were probably the pick, combining well on a number of occasions. Alisson was his usual calm and efficient self, making a couple of decent saves when required. Hendo did pretty well at centre back (his first time in that position) but we did miss VVD's organisation at the back.

 

A few hefty challenges on Salah and Milner in particular but hopefully no further injuries/illness for the final.

14 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Thought the article i posted, which you reckon you previously responded to, was from yesterday. Been in the Tardis again?

 

 

For god sake man you made the exact same point 3-4 weeks ago, I responded, you know this. Is there any <deleted> point having same conversation again...

2 minutes ago, BangrakBob said:

For god sake man you made the exact same point 3-4 weeks ago, I responded, you know this. Is there any <deleted> point having same conversation again...

Think you maybe suffering  an extreme case of Déjà vu.

Liverpool Takumi San e Youkoso????

 

9 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Think you maybe suffering  an extreme case of Déjà vu.

See post 909 and post 910. 

 

Your point about other teams playing consecutive league football matches, or 1 player playing more than one match in 2 countries bares absolutely no semblance to what Liverpool had to do, there is literally no similarity whatsoever and your efforts to lessen the feat for a second time are boring...

2 hours ago, BangrakBob said:

See post 909 and post 910. 

 

Your point about other teams playing consecutive league football matches, or 1 player playing more than one match in 2 countries bares absolutely no semblance to what Liverpool had to do, there is literally no similarity whatsoever and your efforts to lessen the feat for a second time are boring...

Wow! I wasn't expecting you to be so serious. Panic setting in after the defeat?

11 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Wow! I wasn't expecting you to be so serious. Panic setting in after the defeat?

If you are referring to league cup, I couldn't care less. Maintained that on here since day dot.  

On 12/16/2019 at 10:28 PM, wilai said:

1st leg is 18th Feb. This coincides with the 'Winter Break' for the Premier League when we are due to play Norwich away.. If it pans out in our favour, the Norwich game will be 8/9 Feb giving us a full week+ to prepare. Will the Premier League and TV companies do the right thing....for once?

Nope!!! Thought as much. Norwich game on Sky on Sat evening 15th. Bunch of arseoles!

????

Where we can watch the club World Cup final in Thai TV.

10 hours ago, MrJ said:

Where we can watch the club World Cup final in Thai TV.

Wasn't on Thai afaik. Astro SS2 was the nearest provider. 

 

WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONS

 

LFC 1-0 Flamengo (aet). Decent game despite the lack of goals. Could have put the game to bed in the first ten minutes but we were a little wasteful at times. Gomez very assured at the back (looked like we had two VVD's playing)???? Hendo was superb and was MoM for me (Bobby got the official recognition). Only downers were an ankle injury to AOC and that extra time was required....oh and the ref of course! Club World Cup and they let a couple of locals officiate....ridiculous!

 

Despite Bobby scoring the winners in both games, Mo won the Golden Ball and Player of the tournament, despite not actually scoring himself!???? No local bias there surely!

 

Not a bad year so far...

 

 

New addition......Looks good!

 

any news on OC?