ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[Saint Domingo]

Remember when they all complained about Mourinho coming to Anfield with his B team and parking the bus to nick a win. They'd never do that, not the Liverpool way etc. Last night they tried to do exactly that at the bernabeu after 5 years away from the competition. Shame they missed the key component of that tactic - a half decent defence.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

 

[AndyC]

So.....if they lose by two goals at Ludo and Basle take a point at home to Real then rage RS finish bottom of the group....

We can but hope for this !!

 

[Jacob]

That is classic doublethink.....even by RAWK standards.

Following on from a 0-3 home reverse, that "fantastic result" would have meant a four goal defeat in a "two legged tie"

They really should get a Queen's New Years Honour collectively for services to "Perfecting Self Delusion To An Art Form". Or better still a calculator for their simple arithmetic

 

[Guest89]

Suarez spent three seasons at Liverpool without playing in the Champions League and claims that ‘it is beautiful’ to be a part of a team that is actually capable of winning the prized trophy.

“It’s incredible, after many years at Liverpool without playing in the Champions League now it’s great to be part of a team that has a good chance of winning. It’s beautiful.”

Loves sticking the boot in does Luis

Think you'll find when that interview as given in Spanish, he actually meant he loves Liverpool and they're the biggest club in the world.

Anyone who actually reads that as Suarez meaning the words he said do not understand the context they were said, the difference in language and are just puppets/cronies of Alex Ferguson and his conspiracy to bring down the Dalglish Rodgers title challenge.

I'm waiting for the statement on the website and the t-shirts against Chelsea defending the mis-translation and ho Suarez still loved the club at heart and really wanted to stay, he was just forced out by the media.

 

[Lacina]

Kopites 9 Games in 25 days schedule which includes both must win Champions League games a Capital One Cup trip down to Bournemouth and a few other nice easy games. Expect a lot of moaning from Rodgers in the coming week or 2.

 

[orly]

So the possibility of exacting revenge on Chelsea is more important than the last 16 of the champions league?

Dear me

 

[peteblue]

IT WASNT A TWO LEGGED TIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT, if it had been, and it was the first leg, then it was a brilliant result................

 

[Lacina]

Starting with Palace on 23rd November until the visit of Arsenal on 21 December. They have 9 games in 25 days, Poor Raheem wont know what's hit him. He'll be shattered!

 

[Dithering Dougie]

BUT, if it had been, and it was the first leg, then it was a brilliant result................

All apart from getting beat and not getting an away goal and being totally outclassed, yeah it was a brilliant european away performance, textbook actually.

 

[caught]

An astonishing lack of faith from Rodgers that he considered his strongest possible team to have no chance of getting a result in Madrid. It's almost like he doesn't think they're the world class side they obviously are...

 

[Jxg]

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Kopites 9 Games in 25 days schedule which includes both must win Champions League games a Capital One Cup trip down to Bournemouth and a few other nice easy games. Expect a lot of moaning from Rodgers in the coming week or 2.

Four non-televised games in three months.

FOUR.

Yet they still think the media hates them

 

[Kurt.]

Shocking..... A team that almost won the prem last season, and having spent over 100 million pound since on alleged strengthening of the team, go to Real and basically accept defeat before they've even kicked a all..... If I was a fan/player/coach/Kitman or had any other role in that club .. I would be totally embarrassed.

 

[orly]

they'll play a stronger team at Bournemouth than the Bernabeu

 

[Jacob]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/europe/article4257937.ece

Edited piece from the article link above.....

Back in August, Brendan Rodgers was confident enough in the transfer business that Liverpool had conducted to claim that “a lot of great work has gone on”.......................
Rodgers had made the unusual move of taking his entire first-team squad to Madrid, and he made another departure from his normal procedures for European trips by cancelling plans to return to Merseyside straight after the game. Instead, Liverpool remained in the Spanish capital for an extra night, their team jet flying back to John Lennon Airport without them as a result of Rodgers’s belief that a positive result against Chelsea would be more achievable if a flight home in the small hours was avoided.
That Rodgers is having to go to such extraordinary lengths speaks volumes. These are not the actions of a manager who has complete faith in his squad or one who continues to believe that “a lot of great work has gone on”.They are the actions of a manager who lacked belief in a sufficient number of players that he felt it necessary to treat a Champions League fixture against Real Madrid as a warm-up to the main event.

Bizarre that Rodgers loses a day by keeping them over in Spain when they already have the advantage in that Chelsea have to play tonight ahead of them playing each other on Saturday. Especially when moreso, on the back page of The Times in answering criticism from Gary Lineker, hes complaining that they cant train so much as they have 7 games in 21 days and then they have to develop in the games (??). The way hes built this Chelsea game up into the priority, almost like a 6 point title decider, I can only surmise that his wayward psychology thinks that in beating them, it makes right last season's fiasco versus them. The reality is however, that it is more than likely to happen again.