Atletico Madrid v Liverpool match thread

[The Erectile Banana]

Can't say I'm unhappy with the draw. They were all over us during the second half. If we had been more assertive in the first half we could have put it to bed though.

[poorscousertommy]

On the plus side I had 1-1 in the Fifa competition!

[Woobus]

More than happy, took our key players off in the second half due to Chelsea and still got a decent result.

[TheStig]

Shame to concede so close to the end, but we didn't get enough of the ball in the second half and faced a very resurgent A. Madrid side.

We were fortunate the linesman was crap though.

[frank the tank]

keane should have made it 2-0 from that cross from stevie G but to be fair, we will still top this group....i think

[Parm]

Can't say I'm unhappy with the draw. They were all over us during the second half. If we had been more assertive in the first half we could have put it to bed though.

yup, we had our chances and should have killed them off, we looked tired and lacking ideas in the second

[The Erectile Banana]

Shame to concede so close to the end, but we didn't get enough of the ball in the second half and faced a very resurgent A. Madrid side.

We were fortunate the linesman was crap though.

Wouldn't say we were fortunate.

Yossi also had a perfectly good goal disallowed.

[JohnDoe]

Don't know what to make of the second half, I felt we were resting!

Even Kuyt wasn't running when he came on.

If it wasn't for Carragher's slight **** up, we would have been cruising to a win in 2nd gear.

[TheStig]

Wouldn't say we were fortunate.

Yossi also had a perfectly good goal disallowed.

Must have missed that then (missed tonnes as I had to rely on streams).

Oh well.

A draw away to a good side like Atletico is a good result, I thought we might draw beforehand.

[El Jefecito]

No doubt it was a good goal, I just think Carra got caught out by the flight.

It is pretty blowy in that stadium and these balls do get affected.

I wouldn't be too harsh on Carra. I do have a problem w/Yossi though, Simao was delaying his runs and turning up in the box late and Yossi did not track him, not even once. Simao could have had a couple, wouldn't have happened if Kuyt had been on the wing.

[slimbimjim]

Well we were cruising and we have our major players rested in time for Saturday. I wonder if Torres will be fit?

[Zapater]

I'm genuinely quite angry about this. This is a weak Atleti team that we really should've put away. Conceding a late goal just made it hurt more. I know many people would've taken a draw before hand but I don't think many people realised how much they were there for the taking today. Especially because the way we conceded I don't know what the defence was upto. Carragher didn't clear it and Arbeloa was god knows where.

If Benayoun's goal was allowed regardless of if that fat **** Maniche's goal was allowed or not this would have been a different story.

Really disappointed, I hope we **** them over big time and make a point of embarrassing them at Anfield.

[El Jefecito]

Bollocks. He is playing a disciplined role.

Bigger bollocks. He played in the free role tonight so discipline wasn't part of the agenda and yes he did a couple of great things but he was not involved enough.

He, and quite a few others, need to step it up. It'd be nice if we could put together a sequence of passes. Sloppy is what we have been recently.

[The Erectile Banana]

Must have missed that then (missed tonnes as I had to rely on streams).

Oh well.

A draw away to a good side like Atletico is a good result, I thought we might draw beforehand.

Start of the second half Yossi had the ball in the net and it was incorrectly ruled out for offside.

[Shaggy]

Chesterfield 5-1 Aldershot

Jamie ward 76 mins. Good game.

My old man says Jamie Ward is the Michael Owen of the division.......the original Owen that is.