Let me see, I am a football fan for over 20 years when I was in primary school and support Liverpool Football Club since then. Watch the games from free-to-air Channel 5 and 12 (If you don't know this channel, then you should be very young now
) ranging English Divsion 1, FA Cup, League (Coca Cola, Littlewoods, Worthington, Carling) Cup, Serie A, German League, European Cup, Cup Winners Cup, UEFA Cup, European Championship and World Cup then till now pay-to-watch English Premier League (EPL) to now Barclay Premier League (BPL), Champions League and Europa League.It has been great being able to watch so many football matches and superstars displaying their spectacular and amazing skill to score goals and win matches. My CO used to comment that it is so boring and waste-of-time to watch 22 able-bodied man chasing after a small football, but she got "poisoned and psycho" by me and watch the games and cheer and shout with me now.
9th April 2010
A good attacking display by Liverpool produced 4 goals to power past Benfica
into the Europa League semi-final. Finally a much better-than-expected performance from Lucas to show calm and composure in a one-to-one situation with the goalkeeper and ended up rounding the goalie and score the second goal. As usual, Torres show why he is one of the deadly striker in the world to score 2 well-placed goals. He really need to guide Ngog in dealing with such a situation as he could have score the match winner against Birmingham in injury time last weekend.
Liverpool will face Fulham at Anfield this Sunday whom is also in the Europa League semi-final after beating Wolfsburg home and away. Look like we will have a battle of the in-form strikers between Torres and Zamora!
23th April 2010
Another away defeat in the Europa League, this time at the hand of Atletico Madrid. Need a turn-around game at Anfield again to go into the Final. Did it against Lille and Benfica, but Torres was around in those 2 matches, and this time he won't be around for next week's match.
Actually, if you ask me before yesterday match whether I will take 1-0 away defeat, I will reluctantly take it. It is the the manner in which Liverpool lost the match that angered me. I watched the match this morning, and only 3 shots and ZERO shot-on-target for the whole 93 minutes. It is that terrible!
Seriously, I don't think Ngog is of the high-standard required in Liverpool squad. I know he is still at 21 years old but that is not an excuse. Maybe if Voronin was not sold in December, he will perform better than Ngog.
I hope that Rafa will recall Krisztian Nemeth back, and let him prove his worth. Or for goodness sake, buy another quality striker and not rely on Torres so much. Since the bad-boy Balotelli had officially hand-in a transfer request at Inter, Rafa, try bidding for him.
He is another young lad at 20, but from what I see, much better than Ngog.Next friday morning match will be different with Anfield's faithful being the 12th man behind the team. We can overturn the one-goal deficit and win the match to be in the final on 12th May at Hamburg
25th April 2010
Dilemma...Dilemma...Everywhere...
Seriously, if you ask any Liverpool fan whether they will rather lose the home game to Chelsea or to allow Man Utd to get the 19th League title because of a price-less victory over Chelsea, the answer is quite obvious. But I still believe Rafa will field the strongest squad against Chelsea despite having a tiring Europa match against A.Madrid 2 days ago. This result can very well determine the eventual title winner.
Call me bias, but I can't say the same for the Sunderland vs Man Utd game. Sunderland is managed by Steve Bruce, who was the title-cup-winning captain under Ferguson in the 90s. During the last October match at Old Trafford, Man Utd narrowly escaped a home defeat when Sunderland's Anton Ferdinard scored an own-goal in the 90th minutes, and the match ended in a 2-2 draw.
Sunderland got the required squad and ability to beat Man Utd on the 1th May home match, but I believe Steve Bruce will not field the strongest squad on that day. He definitely won't want to go into the history book as the person costing Man Utd the 19th title. Sunderland is quite comfortable in the 10-13th placing, and Bruce don't even need to psyche the team up. He just need to say," Lads, just go out there and enjoy the game."
I hope that Kenwyne Jones (if he is on the field) will shine at the Stadium of Light, and score another goal or two against Man Utd, and I just got a sixth-sense feeling that Rafa will bid for him again this summer. He is much better than Ngog in my view, and will be a good addition to the Reds squad.
All the above view will be nothing if Chelsea can't even beat Stoke later at 10pm local time. Given that Singapore Pools is so confident that Chelsea will win in giving Chelsea -2.5 balls, they should and will win tonight.
Man Utd's last match is at home vs Stoke too which should once again warrant a -2.5 balls from S. Pools, while Chelsea will take on Wigan at home in their last match.
If you are a neutral, you may hope that the title is decided on the last day and match of the season, but if any foreseeable scenarios were to realise
then the last game of the season maybe just a formality.
Although, I am a long-term die-hard Liverpool fan, but I will cheer for Chelsea to take the title this year, rather than Others.
30th April 2010
What else can I say?!
Once again, Liverpool ended the season trophy-less and to say the truth, the chances of getting the fourth place in the premier league may be over this weekend.
A tiger-head-snake-tail performance from the Reds, and we should have seal-up the match in the first half. A wonderful goal by Aquilani and it should have been many more. Somehow, the players were like flatten ballons in the 2nd half, and nearly paid the price as A.Madrid threaten to score on a few occasions.
I thought we are going to have a All-England final when Benayoun scored with a tight-angle goal until the dreaded goal once again by former Man Utd Forlan nine minutes later. There is an interesting statistic given by the commentator as he mentioned that Forlan only scored 17 goals in about 100 matches he played for Man Utd, and out of those 17, I think I heard that 4 was against Liverpool. He had scored 17 goals in this season alone, and he got his 18th against Liverpool again. He is the nemesis to Liverpool.
Most of the players played well, but Gerrard is again not at his best when the team need him most. Aquilani, Kuyt, Mascherano, Carragher, Agger, Benayoun, Babel, Johnson played their heart out, but Gerrard disappoints the fans with a sub-standard performance.
Fatigue will be all-around when Liverpool host Chelsea this sunday, and it will be a tall order to expect the payers to perform at their peak to beat Chelsea. Rafa will put out the strongest squad, but the morale-draining defeat will be hard to overcome in just 2 days of rest.
Liverpool need to look back and reflect upon this season's failure to win something next season, and to seriously launch an premier league title assault against Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and now even Man City.
It is as morale-draining to me as well having watched the 120 minutes match, and following the roller-coaster ride to the abyss of defeat.
Even the sky look especially gloomy today.
10th May 2010
The Fat Lady has sung and the dust have settled.
As expected, Chelsea was deservedly crowned the Premier League title with a thrashing 8-0 win against Wigan, and Drogba scored a hat-trick to pip Man Utd's Rooney to win the Golden Boot award. Chelsea is now en route to a League and Cup double in this Saturday FA Cup final against league-relegated Portsmouth.
Well done Chelsea, with so many press reports highlighting how Wigan can beat Chelsea, and one has to ponder why Stoke can't beat Man Utd.
Liverpool once again preformed terribly in away game with Hull, and can managed to secure a lousy draw, with Gerrald hitting the pole in the dying minutes in the game. A win will move them up to sixth place as Villa lost to Blackburn with an own-goal in the 84th minutes. Sadly, for Liverpool now, the season will start in July with the Europa League qualifying games.
It has been a very exciting final weekend in the Premier League as 32 goals were scored in 10 matches, that is about 3.2 goals per match which is an incredible record. For the soccer fans, there are still the equally-exciting Barcelona-Madrid and Inter Milan-Roma final game deciders to look for this weekend. We still have the FA Cup, Europa League and Champions League final before the World Cup starts in June.
To be continued.....
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