Comments on: Chelsea’s Biggest Enemy Tonight Is Complacency http://www.epltalk.com/chelseas-biggest-enemy-tonight-is-complacency/5875 Daily News & Analysis of the English Premier League Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:09:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Bestall http://www.epltalk.com/chelseas-biggest-enemy-tonight-is-complacency/5875#comment-41138 Paul Bestall Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:11:47 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/?p=5875#comment-41138 Liverpool fans can be very proud of their teams performance tonight, they gave it everything and almost snatched a crazy win from nothing. They gave everything without Gerrard which makes tonights result even more impressive. I agree, Barca are for me, the best side in Europe by a country mile, on paper, they should walk the Champions League, but we all know that football doesn't work like that. Yet, Liverpool would have probably given Barca more of a game, in Catalonia, Chelsea are the only team that come close to matching Madrid as the most hated opponents. My thoughts are with you guys tomorrow, or today as it is here, I'll be laying my flowers at Hillsborough in memory of the loss. Liverpool fans can be very proud of their teams performance tonight, they gave it everything and almost snatched a crazy win from nothing. They gave everything without Gerrard which makes tonights result even more impressive.
I agree, Barca are for me, the best side in Europe by a country mile, on paper, they should walk the Champions League, but we all know that football doesn’t work like that. Yet, Liverpool would have probably given Barca more of a game, in Catalonia, Chelsea are the only team that come close to matching Madrid as the most hated opponents.
My thoughts are with you guys tomorrow, or today as it is here, I’ll be laying my flowers at Hillsborough in memory of the loss.

]]> By: Dano http://www.epltalk.com/chelseas-biggest-enemy-tonight-is-complacency/5875#comment-41121 Dano Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:59:19 +0000 http://www.epltalk.com/?p=5875#comment-41121 What an amazingly ridiculous game. Who would have predicted a 7-5 agg. scoreline two weeks ago? Not even the best experts could have picked that one. Tonight we saw Liverpool soar and then falter. Dodgy keeping by Cech left the door open for Liverpool to put in a third and then hold on... instead Reina matched the efforts of the Chelsea keeper by letting in the softest goal of the season by Drogba. That was followed by poor positioning on Alex's free kick. Not to take away from the brilliance of the goal - no one expected an outright cannon to the centre of the net. After Liverpool stormed back to a 4-3 lead I really thought they could pull it out and just put another goal in. It was wishful thinking as another poor defensive lapse allowed Lampard to bury the Reds once and for all. As a Liverpool supporter I'm let down that we didn't make it through, but as a fan of football that was one hell of a game. Good luck in the next round, Chelsea - you'll be facing Barca and on current form, I'm not sure any team can beat them. What an amazingly ridiculous game. Who would have predicted a 7-5 agg. scoreline two weeks ago? Not even the best experts could have picked that one.

Tonight we saw Liverpool soar and then falter. Dodgy keeping by Cech left the door open for Liverpool to put in a third and then hold on… instead Reina matched the efforts of the Chelsea keeper by letting in the softest goal of the season by Drogba. That was followed by poor positioning on Alex’s free kick. Not to take away from the brilliance of the goal – no one expected an outright cannon to the centre of the net.

After Liverpool stormed back to a 4-3 lead I really thought they could pull it out and just put another goal in. It was wishful thinking as another poor defensive lapse allowed Lampard to bury the Reds once and for all.

As a Liverpool supporter I’m let down that we didn’t make it through, but as a fan of football that was one hell of a game. Good luck in the next round, Chelsea – you’ll be facing Barca and on current form, I’m not sure any team can beat them.

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