Liverpool: The New Valencia?

[wiw]

I found Aimars goal against us.

If Rafa can make us play like that, then I will be very happy.

CLICKY for one touch football

Nice one...wow

They sucked in about 5 players there...who was playing left back?

[disco]

I appear to have stumbled into the Valencia wankathon thread...

[disco]

I found Aimars goal against us.

If Rafa can make us play like that, then I will be very happy.

CLICKY for one touch football

**** defending

[AFII]

Nice one...wow

They sucked in about 5 players there...who was playing left back?

Looks like Heskey.

[Cormack74]

I appear to have stumbled into the Valencia wankathon thread...

It's true I personally could waste several happy hours here.

However, A new mattress was delivered today so I'm off to road test my missus on it.

[AFII]

CLICKY

[disco]

It's true I personally could waste several happy hours here.

However, A new mattress was delivered today so I'm off to road test my missus on it.

Enjoy your sleep

[Iceman]

I was at the friendly Tony Barratt speaks of, sadly it wasnt televised, but Valencia were truly awesome, we were literally outplayed, outpassed and outran.

As it was a friendly I think they took things a bit easy, but you always had the feeling that they could score at will if they really wanted to.

It was one of those games where you mumble about only pre season etc, but deep down you know you were toyed with and humiliated.

I look forward to watching the new "Crushing Machine" humiliating a good few teams this year...................... and the scum are top of my list!

[spider-neil]

For me, I was honoured to be present at such a masterclass. They had the ball for something like 30 passes, then we kicked out for a throw in, then they had it for something like 27 passes and then its in the net.

You dont see **** like that ever, no ****er could have competed with them that night. No shame in being on the end of that skill.

the barca game was different from the valencia games, in the barca owen and heskey contrived to miss sitter after sitter after sitter that game should have been buried before barca became interested in it once they scored they went from strength to strength, in the valancia game we didn't have a sniff, I've never seen liverpool humilated in such a one sided match.

[Cormack74]

Enjoy your sleep

[friedk]

As soon as the Benitez rumours began circulating there was no other manager I wanted at Liverpool, and that was based on the European Cup lesson Valencia taught us at Anfield.

If it had been a boxing match, they would have stopped the fight well before half-time, they made us look like a conference side.

And if there were any doubts about the influence of Rafa on that team, you only have to look at what they have done since he left.

And I don't think Rafa had Villa.

[RedWolverine]

One of the worst LFC moments ever was when I watched Barcelona at Anfield in CL ... We couldn't get near the ball for at least 5 minutes and they just passed it around like a hot potato.

It was very frustrating ... And I think they have scored right after totally humiliating us with their pass game

It was something like 30 plus passes and then the goal.

[rushscored4]

I remember being at that game in 2003 and thinking exactly the same. Just like being at the Mestalla the previous September in the Champions League when Rafa's Valencia gave us a footballing lesson like I've never seen before. Again the score was only 2-0 but it could have double or treble that amount.

Houllier's strike plan backfires

And again the following month when Los Che beat us 1-0 at home:

Valencia leave Liverpool on edge

I think that friendly at Anfield was what convinced Moores and Parry that Rafa was the man to succeed Houllier.

[Parm]

I know the article talks of a friendly, but are people in this thread not thinking of the CL game at Anfield? I wasn't at the friendly but I was at the CL game and they were frustratingly breathtaking. I remember being intensely frustrated throughout the match. Couldn't get near them.

might be, they tore us apart in the mestailla and even at Anfield we culdnt get the ball off them.

[Parm]

I remember being at that game in 2003 and thinking exactly the same. Just like being at the Mestalla the previous September in the Champions League when Rafa's Valencia gave us a footballing lesson like I've never seen before. Again the score was only 2-0 but it could have double or treble that amount.

Houllier's strike plan backfires

And again the following month when Los Che beat us 1-0 at home:

Valencia leave Liverpool on edge

I think that friendly at Anfield was what convinced Moores and Parry that Rafa was the man to succeed Houllier.

jeez, look at the teamsheets from the CL match

Liverpool (4-4-2): Dudek; Carragher (Cheyrou, 82), Traoré, Hyypia, Riise; Gerrard, Diao, Hamann, Murphy (Smicer, 61); Heskey (Baros, 61), Owen.

Valencia (4-4-1-1): Canizares; Curro Torres, Marchena, Pellegrino, Carboni; Rufete, Albelda, Baraja, Kily Gonzalez (Vicente, 88); Aimar (Angulo, 68); Carew (Mista, 79).

Referee: T Hauge (Norway).

and somewhat bizarrely, the article describes Diao as "outstanding"