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Predictions for tonights game ??


I am going for a nerve racking 2-1 to scousers :)

Liverpool only have 2 decent players in torres and Gerrard (when he's on form) and the rest are all average players (but hard working)..Arsenal are filled with talent that play the beautiful game but they are all 12 and tired...a shame but I reckon 0-0 and Liverpool go through.

bang out of order thread, ban him.

Arsenal always score, 2-0 to the Gunners.   Liverpool leaving Anfield under a cloud of shame having had 2 men sent off.

Id go for a 1-0 liverpool win.Early torres goal.

Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal,

Arsenal!

Only coz im getting on them to Qualify at 13/10. I fancy them.

Ive not picked up a paper today, my arse is twitching so much its crazy, and i'm off to the ground in an hour.. Silo, come on man, 2 sent off... Arsenal will have gallas sent off for sure, with Risse going for Liverpool in a thilling 0-0 draw...

I'm not over confident, and I do think Arsenal can score, so predictions for you gamblers  1-1, 2-1 arse after extra time... so im lumping a £20 bet on Arse to qualify, and off to shout and bite my nails off and sing because im as good as bandit when it comes to a tip..

Lets hope its a good game like the previous 2, and  ;pokergods; ;pokergods; let it be a Liverpool / Chelsea next round.. Enjoy Silo

I'm looking forward to it very much, Liverpool v Arsenal is usually a good affair.    If we don't make it through, I'll be cheering on the Pool for the rest of the comp.

Did I read somewhere you're going tonight Jizz?  Have a great time, going to be a great atmosphere there.

LOL @ the dwarf!

(also irrelevant, but interesting nevertheless, did you know that if Arbeloa had been playing instead of Finnan in the last game, that Liverpool would have had a younger average age?)

Tx Silo

Im fortunate to work there, so will be off soon, nights like this are special and its true about the atmosphere in anfield on a european night, nothing quite like it anywhere else..

Enjoy the game Silo, lets hoping were talking about a good game tommorrow.

FYP

24crt boldie!

You da man :)up

Apologies. Stevie G is obviously over the hill :)

Seriously, should be a great game tonight though...jealous of all the lucky b******s who will be going..i personally hope Arsenal get a result and that Arsenal - Barca will be the final again..but that's because I'm neutral and want to see free flowing footie.

5-0 to the arse

2 decent players.  So Gerrard and who else Nem?

:dontask:

Stop biting Dan... Sit down, get a beer and wait for the game.. Its hopefully going to be a good night, enjoy it, dont get wound up by wannabies..  ;)

Just wanted Nem to state the other decent player as well as Gerrard.

Surely, not the Spanish Andy Johnson?

As for predictions.  I can't see Liverpool keeping Arsenal out for the whole 90 minutes.  I can see Liverpool scoring though - so 1-1 looks about right.

To quote "decent" I would say that most of the Liverpool squad is decent.

I would have Reina, Carragher, Mascherano, Alonso, Gerrard and Torres at Spurs. These players would walk into the Spurs team (apart from Carragher but King is always injured!)

Finnan is decent, so is Hyppia, Benyanoun, Pennant, Riise, Arebeloa...

 :o ::)

Lol..Spanish Andy Johnson?..As in.."He can't do it at a proper top-club"?..lmao..finally admitting it, Kin?

 :-*

lets just hope its a cracking game and that noone picks up a silly yellow card ruling them out of next round game.

Riise overdue a goal IMO

If he plays. 

I think he's definitely lost his shooting boots though. 

It would also be nice to see Stevie G have one of his great games again..it's been a while.

i think Bellamy nicked them

if i was neutral i would be having a bet on the score of the last 3 games we have played arsenal 1-1,
its going to be tight, with liverpool not needing to score a lot expect liverpool to sit back and soak up the pressure, no predications but benitez sometimes surprises in these sort of situations and goes on the attack, theres talk of crouch playing tonight i hope that doesn't mean kuyt is not playing,kuyt has turned into a fantastic player this season and along with a few other players is an automatic choice for the big games, i hope to see gallas sat on the pitch on his own for 5 min at the end of the match
 are you a steward jizzem ,my lad was a steward for a few years ,left 2 years ago.

I'm not sure that Rafa will set up the team to defend.  He tends to play the percentage game, and sitting back and trying to keep Arsenal's attacking force out for 90 minutes isn't a good percentage play. 

I think he'll get the team to go out on the offensive from the off and try and get a goal.  If Liverpool do score first, then Rafa might decide that the percentage play is to defend.

I can't see Crouch starting tonight - as Rafa seems to have his preferred formation now.  What about the Arsenal fans?  Would you rather Crouch did or didn't start?

1-0 Arsenal for me. Walcott with the goal about 10 mins from the end.

Didn't

Crouch owns Arse so hard.

Fucking hilarious that he's an ex yid!

Really suprised at reading this haven't seen many liverpool games but i don't think kuyt is good enough to play for a top 4 side. Is this view shared by most liverpool supporters(that he's fantastic).As for liverpool only having 2 good players i cant understand how anyone doesn't rate carragher (not that debate again  :-X)Alonso is also a quality player imo and although he seems out of form at the moment reina is a very good keeper the core of liverpools team i.e Reina Carra Gerrard Torres is good enough to compete for the league title they just need to improve the rest of the team as they have too many players who get a start at liverpool that wouldn't get in the 16 at man utd.

no question that Kuyt is the hardest worker in the team but he is never gonna be a 20 goal a season player.Personally i would prefer to see Benayoun in the team as his link up play and finishing are superior.And as for Babel............... :redcard:

 i like crouch, a lot of friends ive spoken to feel sorry for him , hes done no thing wrong and has scored some vital goals, but i like a player who is skilful, runs his heart out up and down the field for 90 min and is a team player, kuyt does all this, gerrard takes some beating in covering the pitch but kuyt runs more than any other liverpool player i think,he can score goals and lay them on as well,always running back to help the defence and sprinting up the field on the break, i would have him in any team, reanna is a great goalkeeper he does have a weakness in the air though and this has been costing us a lot lalely.he has to take control and come for more crosses far better than he has,rissa and alonso have played better in the past i think, i loved both players and know they can play brilliant so they will get better i think
my daughter went for a meal a few months back , peter crouch was in the restaurant , i was telling a friend, my daughter bumped into peter crouch on saturday night, he said, its a wonder he didnt go down a try and get a pen ,lol

Crouch starts with Torres, no Babel.

 ;applause;

I called the first game right with a 1 - 1 draw.  I reckon CL football is made for liverpool they are so consistent in this competition.  I am going scoucers to win by 2 clear goals.

2 - 0

or

3 - 1

Liverpool team: Reina, Carragher, Aurelio, Skrtel, Hyypia, Mascherano, Alonso, Kuyt, Gerrard, Torres, Crouch.

More than King Gerrard


Always hate it when he puts gerrard on the wing just seems such a waste he's good enough to play there but he's world class in the middle.

What?? No Voronin? Tonights game is tailor made for him imo.



































The Morcambe v Shrewsbury game that is.

I think Wenger has got it wrong playing Toure at RB and Senderos in the middle. should play Eboue at RB and start with Theo

If senderos is marking torres then liverpool have won it already.

Maybe that's why you're surprised?  Kuyt has been one of the most consistent players for Liverpool over the past month or so.  He's not going to score many, but Rafa's got him playing wide right - and he adds a lot to the side.  Saying that, he's got a few important goals recently.

After the worst day for ages, spending 5 hours in A&E and being told I have torn the tendons and got some ligament damage in my left wrist (thinly vieled sympathy wanting post) the only thing that will take the pain away is the crate of export, some good smoke and a Gunners win.

"Its up for grabs now"

One time.

Why??
What an idiot statement. Dont bother watching it then if you already know the result. You must have your house on Liverpool if you are that confident.

They both played in the 1st leg and Torres hardly had a kick

Very happy, and very surprised to see Crouch start.

what was the 12 second silence for?

@rsenals season.

Some uefa bloke who died. 1 - 0 Chelsea Ballack

I have backed a 1-1 draw.  :D

Just pissed myself at this:

Brent says:
JUS HAD A BET ON LIVERPOOL NXT CORNER

gl horneris imo

So sick, he runs bad.

fk u, jus lost then tilt shoved with  Kd 4s on Party.

Needless to say, i got it in good.

 rotflmfao lol party.

Get in.
 ;yippee;

ship

Good goal arse now we have a game on bad by the keeper (again!!!!)

 :hello:

Seems arsenal were bit lucky seemed like it hit flamini's arm

Awesome football from Arsenal.

Benitez has his tactics wrong so far

3 against 2 in midfield  flam/fab and hleb running rings round gerrard and mascherano. decision to play Crouch is wrong. so far

This could be a thumping now. We have to come out and we're not used to that and we dont have a pacey back 4.

I honestly think either Babel or Pennant should have started to keep their full backs in their own half.

The starting XI is all wrong.

Arsenal ripping Liverpool to shreds...they are looking wayyyyyyyyyyy too good at the moment. Rafa sitting there taking notes any moment now I expect Arsene to bring out a black board and tell him "welcome to football 101"

1-1, right lets keep it there please.  ;)

Told you, all wrong


lol 1-1

fk me Senderos, poor marking

wow...amazingly poor by Senderos..but game on!

Gr8 header. Stay at 1-1s good for me. Although rather see a load more goals than win my bets tbh. lol.

Although 1-1 were 'losing' this game in midfield so far, Mascherano is half asleep, and Alonso is too slow over the first few yards, Gerrad hasnt clicked, get amongst them, unsettle them,  as its unlikely were going to out-football them...

Believe

One of the best halves of football ive seen in a long time with a game involving 2 of the big 4. Hope the 2nds just as good.

It's that man-marking system.  Always at fault.

Swiss Toni my left testicle!!!

Makes Dawson look like Baresi!

Swiss cheese more like! ;)

It's such a shame that we can't defend...... ;reallyamsorry;

Kuyt has to go and get Babbel on

I believe that was a very entertaining half for the neutral!

Arsenal were giving us a battering early on.  In fact it reminded me of Istanbul.  Mascherano is particular was completely off the pace.

Sami Hyypia is a legend.  A fantastic header from the big man who tends to come good in the big games.

I just hope we can be more solid (and Arsenal can look as loose with the ball as they were towards the end of the half), otherwise there'll be another away goal and that'd probably be game over.

Disagree.  Babel has flattered to deceive for me all season.  He's very frustrating as he has the talent and undoubted speed - but seems to be unaware that he's actually a gifted player.  He seems scared to take players on.  Kuyt's a very important player for Liverpool.

calm down, calm down ... go to the OP and see the correct prediction.

That's all well and good...


























...but what did Bandit predict?

Just keep the ball, 1-1 please.  8)

Well on the minus side we lost our young French midfield dynamo.

But on the plus side  we brought on the current captain of Brazil who was our penalty taker last season.

Game on.

you mean the one that cant normally get a game ??

Yes, but he's rubbish!

How on earth does senderos get in the arsenal team he consistently makes school boy errors can't understand why wenger keeps playing him.

Regardless of what happens in the rest of the game, two decisions from these master tacticians really bugs me.

1) Wenger weakening his defence by putting Toure at right back, bringing in Senderos and playing Eboue on the right wing. He could play the right back at right back, the centre back at centre back and bring a right winger, who could also be English (who would have thought!), on the right wing.

2) Benetez playing a 4-4-2 with two holding midfielders in the middle and the wide people who aren't proper wide people. Only Gerrard's unwillingness to stay out wide can possibly link any play up. Or Jamie Carrager beating people down the wing. Crazy.

Senderos had ten or twelve excellent games in a row before Toure came back into the team.

When Sagna got injured it was easily the best option to switch Toure to RB and bring Senderos back.

Toure IMO is a far better right back than Hoyte, in fact some would argue that it's his best position.

Sigh, I am having a bad night, where is the winge thread?

Torres was an awful signing

where is that thread again?

Blow the final whistle ref!

HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD

what a miss from Adebayor!!

What a goal the lad is a genius. Best signing by miles by rafa he was worth every penny for liverpool.Wahat a sitter by adebayor nightmare for arsenal

I fancy another 89th minute job...

 ;tightend;

EDIT: FK my ;ife

wow, what a run that was

what Pace!!!

superb

Just remembered my bet on the draw, get in.
 ;yippee;

oh no penalty

penalty!!!

1 time!!!!!

oh bugger

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Crikey was gunna predict 3-2 liverpool what a game. Stevie g what a penalty that was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a game this is all time classic

initial foul outside the area no?

Blow the bloody whistle ref!!

Who cares.

Definitly, been a great game i can see 1 more thing happening

Come on gooners

Game over.

4-2

game over

Liverpool v Chelsea semi

Great game

ok admit it who had Arsenal to score first and Liverpool to win 4-2

Never in doubt

Congrats all you liverpool fans surely you are the luckiest fans in the world every big night you seem to come out on top well done great game.Hope its liverpool man uts in moscow

Good game, well played - hope you win it.

another boring all English tie in Europe.

bloody superb game, glad I was watching as a neutral though

Wiiiiiiiiiii, now to beat chelsea and ship it to moscow

NEXT

Man Yoo vs Liverpool would be great.

Can see a Barca Chelsea final though...

WOW ... what a game.... that is all.

anyone fancy a friendly wager o the semi ill take chelsea 2 go through

Scouse Bastard.

Never give up. 

im not a man utd fan but would love to see them hammer liverpool in the final

Other way round for me would love to see that final for the rivalry but would want liverpool to win it.Chelsea will fancy there chances with 2nd leg at the bridge could make all the diff i think man u will av to much for barca as man u av better defence.Fingers crossed 4 that final.

LOL


DOCTOR!!!!  Bring the defibrillator!!!

Seriously though, I feel sorry for my mates who are Arsenal fans. Being up in a massive game and then getting it taken away from you like that is so sick.

Half right.  Babel decided that he would run at defenders for once, and made a difference.

Don't know if it was just me, but I thought Kuyt was our MOTM tonight.  Terrific performance.

Anyway, gr8 fkin game as a neutral.

Hopefully Pool/Chelski can match it.

Not likely if past games are anything to go by.

Great game, hats off to Arsenal.

Rotation seemed to pay off tonight. The difference for me was fitness in the second half. (Other than Theo Walcott)

I'm exhausted.

Boo - you fkn know!!!!!!

YNWA

Liverpool to win by 2 clear goals :)

I think that Kuyt shaded it. The LB for Pool was awesome. Alonso was absolute Zokoradire.

AAAAAAAAYYYYYYYAAAAAAARRRRR

SHIP

I agree - Aurelio had a very good game (for once). Alonso and Gerrard played poorly by their standards.

Gerrard even said it was 1 of worst games he's ever played for liverpool. Still an excellent penalty and done it 4 them when he was needed

Yes, both Gerrard and Alonso were sub-standard.  Mascherano was poor first half, but improved in the second.  Thought Reina was dodgy as well, but the back four in front of him had good games. 

Dirk Kuyt though.  From a complete waste of space to a very important player for us.  Crouch had  a great game too, and showed why he should start more games.  I thought that Torres had a few periods of the game where he looked threatening (and obviously scored) and he worked very hard.

If Arsenal had been able to sustain their game that they were playing in the first half, that would have been game over.  Sami's goal seemed to knock them off their rhythm and allowed Liverpool to get back into it.

Of course there's the penalty decision too.  I thought it was a penalty, but it was one of those that is given sometimes and others not.  Same for Hleb's in the first leg.  Looks like we got a big slice of luck with those decisions.

arsenal were robbed over two legs imo

C'MON!

...and huge respect to Arsenal who are going to be the outstanding team in English football over the next three or four seasons.

Yep 3 good games on trot, below avergae and fit for spurs the previous 20, from gash to class...    ::)

I personally do not think Kuyt would make the bench at Spurs...

He would start for Citeh though :)up

They may turn to him when Ronaldinho stops laughing

Just got in from what was the most perfect night of football, and a fcking big well done and UL to the arse who made that one of the best games of football I have seen and had the pleasure to be at.

Football, gives everybody something to talk about, you only need to look back at this thread and see how people have changed their minds, one team out then the other was gone..., the great thing about our beautiful game is, it gives you nights like that..

I wish I could have had you all there to see and feel it for yourself..

Liverpool & Arsenal  ;hattip; to giving us a brilliant game...

What he said...Leaving the penalty issue aside this was a great game of footie.

Thought it was a well-taken penalty.  In fact it was about the only thing of note Gerrard did in the game. 

So thats one FA Cup Final and one Champions League Semi Final that probably wont have a single goal in them in about 500 minutes of football.

Crazy game though, solid penalty from Gerrard.

Gerrard doesnt give me confidence taking penalties, he must have missed at least 5, if not 6 or 7...

Yes, I was packing it.  then again, he hasn't missed one for quite a while.  He must have balls the size of Uranus though, as he said himself he played very poorly for him, and yet he was confident enough to step up and take a very solid penalty.

yeah cant fault him for that...

geat game, i can understand how arsenal feel over the pens, should of deffo beem a pen first leg, i would of been just as angry if the ref had not given a pen last night, i dont think babel dived, it looked to me as if he did try to stay on his feet, so if the defender makes contact bumping him hard in the back and he goes down, refs got no choice but to give a pen, benitez has took a lot of stick this season over resting players, it seemed to pay off last night, they finished very strong, i cant say ive been that impressed with babel this season but he changed everything when he came on, just hope he can play the way he has promised from now on.
benitez was asked what was the difference between the 2 sides tonight, he said, belief,

Just in case anybody missed this first time around!!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Nearly right, and closer than most!

 :)up

In 4 cups mid January

6 points clear in the league Mid Febuary

Please place this at the gates of the library in memory of @rsenals season

@rsenals season

i have a feeling your happy Kev  ;carlocitrone;

Well played scoucers and good luck in the next round.

Maybe I'm bias but I thought we were better than Liverpool over the 2 games, possibly all 4 games this season but never won one. I thought Liverpool got the 2 big decisions from ref over the tie and maybe if we had got one of them it may have been us go through. Saying that we also had enough decent chances over the 2 games and didn't finish.

I said at the start of the thread I think Wenger got it wrong playing Kolo at RB, not that he is a bad RB but Senderos doesn't cut against the other teams in the top 4. Actually he doesn't cut it against teams in the top half. He gave Hyypia and Torres too much room for their goals.

I really hope that Liverpool can beat Chelsea although I have a sick feeling that Chelsea might win the CL this year, even with Grant in charge. I know that Liverpool have done them in a couple of semis but I think it will be different this time around.

Oh and Kev.........FO

What makes you think the final will be goaless i'm expecting they opposite; no matter what happens it can't be as bad as last years worst game i ever seen.

You played us off the park until Hyypia scored.  Then I thought we were playing the better football.  We had the rub of the green with the penalty decisions, but surely Wenger can't be right that Hleb's was a definite penalty and yet Babel's was definitely not a penalty?  Both could have been given, and both could have been waved away.  Maybe the ref last night would have given both, and the ref in the first leg would have given neither? 


He was the weak link in your defence.  Although I don't think Hyypia has been given enough credit for his goal in the media at all.  He worked hard to lose his marker, and then had to direct the header from a good distance out.  Dare I say that the ability for an attacker to lose their marker at set pieces is a weakness of man-to-man marking systems?


I think the two games will be better than the previous efforts.  I hope we can win, but I reckon it's 50/50 (even if the bookies have them as slight favourites).


Can never argue with that.

I think Liverpool's penalties are all decided pre game by Rafa.

He rotates his panalty takers too I believe.

Gerrard has taken all the penalties this season, when he's been on the pitch.

He got subbed in the derby when Kuyt scored one, forgot that...