Barcelona.......

[Tinkerbitch]

If we score an away goal we will go through.

[The Glove]

If we score an away goal we will go through.

Unless we lose 18-1


We'll lose 2-1 over there. Then its **** or bust at Anfield and us winning 3-1.

[REDSCOUSER]

I think we will lose the first game by the odd goal then it will be another BIG European night at Anfield where the REDS are gonna win the tie and qualify to the QF on the away goals rule.

Scores : barca 2 Liverpool 1 & Liverpool 1 barca 0

[Tinkerbitch]

Unless we lose 18-1


We'll lose 2-1 over there. Then its **** or bust at Anfield and us winning 3-1.

You might have a point there

[AFII]

We will go through because we have a more complete team than Barca. They have a big weakness in the air and we don't have any big weakness.

[lfcruleus]

I see a lot of hearts ruling heads Im afraid. Only one person has said we will lose. I have a bad feeling about this.....
I think we will struggle to contain them down the right, whether Messi or Guily play there. We have no left back capable of containing either of them. Finnan will need help with the buck toothed one too. If Eto'o doesnt make it then maye we have more of a chance away as we can cope with Gudjohnson.
Centrally we can match them but if they stretch us wide on a big pitch it could be all over after wednesday.
If we are in it when we play the second leg though who knows, I think we can score in both games but i also think we will concede in both.
I think we will go out on away goals in the end

[lfcruleus]

We will go through because we have a more complete team than Barca. They have a big weakness in the air and we don't have any big weakness.

Our big weakness is our left side of defense, every team knows it and they have 2 of the best right sided players in the world (messi and Guily)

[AFII]

Our big weakness is our left side of defense, every team knows it and they have 2 of the best right sided players in the world (messi and Guily)

Our left side is a weakness with Kewell out but not a big weakness IMO. We can cope with Messi and Guily better than Barca can cope with Crouch and Kuyt IMO.

[lfcruleus]

Our left side is a weakness with Kewell out but not a big weakness IMO. We can cope with Messi and Guily better than Barca can cope with Crouch and Kuyt IMO.

So do you think JAR or Aurelio will cope with the pace and movement of Guily, or the pace and trickery of Messi, I hope you are right because if he does his usual trick of being drawn inside to the ball we will pay (Riise I mean).

[einar]

I think Rafa will solve the left side for us. Maybe 3-5-2 of some sort.

I think we could see a 1-1 or 2-1 at Nou Camp and we will beat them 1-0 at home.

[Johnny]

Our left side is a weakness with Kewell out but not a big weakness IMO. We can cope with Messi and Guily better than Barca can cope with Crouch and Kuyt IMO.

We`ve missed him so much!!!

[Doc_Piptorious]

So do you think JAR or Aurelio will cope with the pace and movement of Guily, or the pace and trickery of Messi, I hope you are right because if he does his usual trick of being drawn inside to the ball we will pay (Riise I mean).

I would fancy him to play well against Barca if fit and picked. His La Liga experience would come into play.

[AFII]

Benitez needs to ignore feuds

By Alan Hansen
Last Updated: 11:41pm GMT 18/02/2007

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Liverpool are different from any of the other English clubs in the Champions League. Chelsea are competing for four trophies, Manchester United for three, Arsenal are still in the Carling Cup and the FA Cup but for Liverpool what happens against Barcelona will define their season. They have nothing else to play for.

Rafa Benitez will know what awaits him in the Nou Camp on Wednesday. Barcelona play fast, flowing attacking football and yet when they faced Chelsea in the group stages, they appeared very vulnerable to the counter attack. They are formidable but what they are definitely not is unbeatable.

Liverpool have cause for optimism. They can look back two years at the incredible atmosphere Anfield generated in European nights against Juventus and Chelsea and imagine they can repeat them.

If they have to go to the Nou Camp, shut the game out and return home with a goalless draw, then so be it. Benitez would take it now. In between, they have Manchester United coming to Anfield; this is two weeks that will shape Liverpool's season and Benitez knows it cannot be allowed to end on March 6.

It is a time for strong minds and what has happened at Liverpool's training camp in Portugal can hardly have helped. Whatever the truth behind the fracas involving Craig Bellamy and John Arne Riise, it will count for nothing once the players cross the white line to play but it will affect the build-up. Barcelona may have their own problems between Samuel Eto'o, Ronaldinho and the manager, Frank Rijkaard, but that is even more reason why Liverpool should have gone to Spain 100 per cent together.

A strong manager would ignore the personal animosities and play his best team. Bob Paisley would certainly have done so, whatever happened before the game. It is a big decision for Benitez, but Wednesday's match is full of massive decisions.

Who does he play at centre-back alongside Jamie Carragher? Does he go for the understanding Sami Hyypia has built up with Carragher over the years and his experience of the big occasion or look at Sami's lack of pace and wonder if his back line will be ripped apart by Barcelona's quick feet.

Chelsea and Manchester United have the opposite problem to Liverpool. They also need strong minds not because the Champions League is the only thing left to play for but because the big games are coming thick and fast. Their matches against Porto and Lille may be straightforward but they have to look to what lies beyond.

Both Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho have won the Premiership and the Champions League before and they know the requirements of course and distance. If you study Cristiano Ronaldo; he is the best player in the country but he has never won the Premiership or the European Cup. There is a danger he might be led by events or miss the vital signs but in Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes he is surrounded by people who have been there.

They know that however tough the season appears in September and October, the real pressure comes in February, March and April, when a game against Watford can suddenly appear the most important of your life. They know that a dressing room can be the centre for the kind of euphoria that will take you on to the next game or a chasm where your hopes will be buried.

I have been in dressing rooms chasing three or four trophies in seasons where there were no cameras and you were only on the back or inside-back page of a newspaper rather than the front. You take the pressure with you on to the training ground and it is still there when you get home and it only ends when your season ends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...9/sfnhan19.xml

[Eth]

We need to score in spain to go through in this tie - They will score at Anfield - I'm convinced of that.

[bazza76]

We need to score in spain to go through in this tie - They will score at Anfield - I'm convinced of that.

Yeah I tend to agree.
Was at the last game at Anfield when we got kicked 3-1