Liverpool v Barca Match Thread CL Semi-Final
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Brought my 9 year old over from Dublin yesterday for the game. His second time over. He cried himself to sleep after last week and after Monday night I thought I had angered some Gods and it wasn't going to be our night.
All over the city yesterday, people were being so nice to us and him especially. He needed a new top so I bought him a replica of the Istanbul tracksuit top hoping it would bring some luck. Left the label on... it's staying on now.
Got to the ground and noticed a lot of 'tourists', had a bad feeling until I remembered I was one of them.
Stood for the entire match, him on his seat banging the stand as we were the last two seats in the row. First two goals, hugging all around us, tourists and locals.
Third goal went in and he had a meltdown. Proper panic, tears and heart beating out of his little chest. He wanted to leave but I got him sat down and got water into him. Big baldy scouse lad beside me asking if he was ok... legend.
My boy didn't watch a ball get kicked for the next 30 mins, sat while all around him stood. I told him what was going on while he watched the clock and listened to the crowd.
Final whistle and he jumped back on his seat and celebrated with the rest of us. The kindness and support by all around us yesterday at every stage was what this club, this game is about.
He will float into school tomorrow and walk back to his own football team that I coach with a big smile at training tomorrow night. We will channel the energy and work rate of Mane, Fabinho, Henderson, Milner and the skills of TAA, Virgil, Alisson and the rest for years to come.
I'm bringing my team to France for a tournament in June and we will be over there for the final but my boy will be wearing his new lucky top!
Special day I wanted to share with all on here.
Brought my 9 year old over from Dublin yesterday for the game. His second time over. He cried himself to sleep after last week and after Monday night I thought I had angered some Gods and it wasn't going to be our night.
All over the city yesterday, people were being so nice to us and him especially. He needed a new top so I bought him a replica of the Istanbul tracksuit top hoping it would bring some luck. Left the label on... it's staying on now.
Got to the ground and noticed a lot of 'tourists', had a bad feeling until I remembered I was one of them.
Stood for the entire match, him on his seat banging the stand as we were the last two seats in the row. First two goals, hugging all around us, tourists and locals.
Third goal went in and he had a meltdown. Proper panic, tears and heart beating out of his little chest. He wanted to leave but I got him sat down and got water into him. Big baldy scouse lad beside me asking if he was ok... legend.
My boy didn't watch a ball get kicked for the next 30 mins, sat while all around him stood. I told him what was going on while he watched the clock and listened to the crowd.
Final whistle and he jumped back on his seat and celebrated with the rest of us. The kindness and support by all around us yesterday at every stage was what this club, this game is about.
He will float into school tomorrow and walk back to his own football team that I coach with a big smile at training tomorrow night. We will channel the energy and work rate of Mane, Fabinho, Henderson, Milner and the skills of TAA, Virgil, Alisson and the rest for years to come.
I'm bringing my team to France for a tournament in June and we will be over there for the final but my boy will be wearing his new lucky top!
Special day I wanted to share with all on here.
Lovely post that mate. Very special day for you & your boy, that'll live long in the memory that.
Glad you experienced a slice of our Liverpool hospitality too.
Thanks for sharing mate! Sounds like an incredible experience and one you guys will cherish forever.
Do post more though? Your post to like ratio is insane ... 🙂
Enjoyed Wenger saying Anfield is now THE most feared ground in all of Europe.
....did he not leave one for Albert Moreno also .......................for when he arrives there in June as their new star man?
Yeah. After I woke up from my fatigued slumber (after photographing all day and up to midnight here in Nepal) I went through the match thread page by page (I knew something was up as it was already at 18 pages when I started reading) and by the time I got to the end there was still 5 mins injury time to go.
It was like a wind up thread, I went straight to Redcafe (because I knew they would have GIFs of the goals) to see the goals and then to the BBC, Sky and ESPN to triple confirm. Unreal.
I then couldn't sleep and spent the next 3 hours trawling YouTube and all the media outlets for clips, videos and post match comments. Have spent most of today in cafes doing the same!
Better than going to the dressing room and proclaiming that they are his players and that he's the reason why they're in the CL final.
[article]Liverpool vs Barcelona: The ball boy who helped Reds complete a Champions League miracle
Whatever happens in his career or life from here, 14-year-old Oakley Cannonier will remember his role in arguably the most remarkable victory in the club’s entire history
Trent Alexander-Arnold has been hailed as a genius for the quick corner kick that led to Liverpool’s fourth and deciding goal last night. Yet to begin to understand the pursuit of impossible it is best to start with the instructions and the even spread of information.
Liverpool’s match analysts had noticed last week in the Camp Nou how Barcelona’s players moaned and became distracted whenever a free-kick or a throw-in was awarded against them, even if the decision was blatantly the correct one. This made Jurgen Klopp recognise the possibilities. And so, he filtered a message through the club. It proves that he certainly had not given up – that Liverpool’s recovery was not purely borne out of adrenaline and special oils. His belief was not blind. It translated into plans and schemes.
Carl Lancaster is a coaching mentor at the club’s academy in Kirkby and amongst his responsibilities is the co-ordination of ball boys. He had told them to serve Liverpool’s players as swiftly as possible on Tuesday morning. Oakley Cannonier did not forget and with eleven minutes to go, he fed Alexander-Arnold while Barcelona’s defence fidgeted amongst themselves 20-yards away. It seemed astonishing they were blissfully unaware of what might happen considering Liverpool had already shown their bulldozing intent.
Cannonier is a 14-year-old originally from Leeds who sometimes trains with two age groups above his natural level. Whatever happens in his career or life from here, he will remember his role in arguably the most remarkable victory in Liverpool’s entire history, where Klopp’s team proved their capacity to reduce the immortal to inconsolable wrecks and men of granite to goo.
It had meant so much to Lionel Messi, he was crying as he walked the plank past to the drug testing area. Tears, meanwhile, had fallen from James Milner’s bloodshot eyes. In the dressing room afterwards, the midfielder sat topless with his shirt draining on the floor, half-smiling not really knowing what to say or do.
Georginio Wijnaldum had welled-up as well. He was furious that he’d been left out of Liverpool’s first XI. Inside ten minutes of his introduction at half time, he’d touched the ball six times. He’d scored twice. In front of the TV cameras, the Dutchman – usually so eloquent and able to find the right words – could not.
While Wijnaldum missed out on a starting place here, it was Jordan Henderson’s turn six days earlier in Barcelona. That both players emerged so influential reflects Liverpool’s resourcefulness, as well as their determination. In the 25th minute, Henderson, indeed, had seemed dead. On the floor. Not moving. Dead. Some of the midfielder’s critics might ask how a person can die if he’s never really lived? Despite pain in his knee, Henderson rose. In the fifth minute of injury time, he was still running: charging at opponents and intimidating them, as though thunder had charged his body.
“I was struggling a little bit when I got a whack on the knee, it was dead,” he admitted. “The doctor said just keep it moving. I managed to get to half time and I had a bit of treatment, took painkillers, all that stuff which helped. There was a jab and tablets. Both. Everything. I said: ‘just give us everything.’ So I managed to get through it and the crowd helped as well and keep us going.”
He could not really compute the outcome happened either. The best night of his career, he called it. “It was unbelievable. From start to finish I thought the lads were amazing. The atmosphere was amazing. It was just unbelievable.
“We were 3-0 down but still took confidence from the performance (in the first leg). Still believed that we were the better team over there, though it is hard to say that when you get beat 3-0. But in the changing room we had belief we could hurt them.”
Can there really be a more appropriate captain for Liverpool at this moment? A player written-off, but never by coaches. A team written off, but never by their fans. A city written off, but never by its inhabitants.
“I think we proved quite a few people wrong tonight,” Henderson declared. “We showed that if you never give up and you keep trying you can produce special things.”
On Sunday, Liverpool hope for another special thing, only this special thing is out of their control.
Henderson believes it can still happen for Liverpool in the Premier League. “The manager has ingrained that into us - no matter what happens you keep fighting right until the end until the final whistle goes. That is what we have done all season and we will continue to do that on Sunday.”
If Liverpool score first, who knows how Manchester City's players will react in Brighton. Liverpool's story this season, this week, shows nobody really ever knows for certain.
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I couldn't find that. Link?
It's bollocks.
Marca printed almost the exact same made-up quote, but it was Van Dijk saying it about Messi, last week.
Didn't happen.
That is just beautiful
TAA may have had the odd defensive wobble at times, and that is unsurprising for his age, but his technique, pace and attacking prowess makes him arguably the most valuable RB in the world.
His assists this season have been invaluable and unmatched. And he's 20.
Every club would want him. The fact that we have Robbo on the opposite side and together they cost Liverpool £8m is pure ridiculous.
His assists this season have been invaluable and unmatched. And he's 20.
Every club would want him. The fact that we have Robbo on the opposite side and together they cost Liverpool £8m is pure ridiculous.
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The harmony was nice for 24 hours.
I think that's a record this decade for scm.
There's a thread on Redcafe specifically about TAA. Admiration abounds. Trend seems to be towards him being the best RB in the world at the moment but if not at least world class. Kimmich has more goals and assists though.
Wherever spider Neil is, he'd be loving this team with the attacking fullbacks.
And yet he gets plenty of dig over here. Strange world.
Ashley Cole?
Think Tennant
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