JOHNY JOHNY!!!!! Use your right foot, outside of the left, put it into THE KOP, anything…..just don’t do that…..
Never mind, what is done is done. Although seriously deflated at the present time I have complete faith in our lads to produce another memorable European away fixture and get us to the final where we belong.
Stamford Bridge has never been regarded as a fortress and although they have a good record there with Rafa in charge, we will rise again, just as we have done in other crucial away fixtures in Turin, Barcelona, Marseille etc.
Speaking straight after the disappointing 1-1 semi final first leg draw at Anfield, a shell shocked but still confident Stevie G said: “We haven’t played there (Stamford Bridge) with Fernando Torres, have we?”
He added: “Obviously we’re disappointed with the late goal but it’s done. We’ve got to pick ourselves up. We’ve got to get a result at the weekend then give it everything we can at Stamford Bridge. We know this tie is not over.
“It’s my job as captain to pick the boys up and make sure we’re ready for next week.
“Let people say Chelsea are favourites, let them. We’ve got to block that out and do what we’ve got to do. We are confident we can beat Chelsea on their patch.
“We’ve created the better chances against them here. I don’t think Pepe had anything to do besides pick the ball out late doors. Petr Cech has had to pull off two or three great saves. To be honest, we’d have been disappointed if this game had ended 1-0 when it could have been 2-0.”
CMON LADS DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully now the players will have got over the shock. As Stevie G said in his interview we would have been disappointed at 1-0, but as Greavsie used to say “it’s a funny old game”. And it sure was on Tuesday. I remember looking over to the clock in the corner of the Kop and it had ticked over to 21.36 (the ref signalled 4 minutes at 21.32) and remember screaming at Javier Mascharano “row z, row z” as he chased to keep the ball in by the touchline. The subsequent error and the failure to close down the cross only made JAR’s amamzing cock-up more unbelieveable.
Still, we can console ourselves in the fact that we were by far the better team and created the better worthwhile chances. A repeat of this on Wednesday and we can confine JAR’s mistake to the memory banks. At least we know what we have to do. Maybe at times too many options can be confusing so the fact we have to go out and win the game will maybe help the players focus better.
Anyway, best of luck boys on Wednesday and no matter what “You’ll Never Walk Alone”