Thursday, April 16, 2009

Champions League '09

Champions league has taken football to one level higher when the kop Reds played against Chelsea in London. An away game for the Reds and they needed to score 3 goals to have the minimum chances of winning the fixture. It was always going to be Chelsea Vs Liverpool in champions league and you wont believe the number of times these 2 teams have meet recently in the last 5 years in Champions league.

Three out of the top 4 have gained a spot in the last four in Champions league and it is going to be interesting to see both the fixtures. Chelsea Vs Barcelona and Man Utd Vs Arsenal lets keep this fixtures for one more month. I know they are going to be top notch matches. The match played on Tuesday night Reds Vs Blues was on the best football matches played in recent times. I was on work but to the extent that internet has far reached its limit i was able to watch the live match through espnstar.com. That was great , i loved it and bandwidth was really fast and rightly coming back to discuss on the match, the teams played with sheer talent and ball passing was impeccable from one end to the other. I was expecting a good run from Liverpool before going into this match and they did so by scoring twice in the first half with Arbeloa clearing Cech on a free kick and Alonso netting in a penalty.

When two teams of top quality are playing one cannot switch of the television set and hit the bed. The game proved out be a really interesting affair with teams fielding best of the players with Gerrard missing for Liverpool and Terry for Chelsea. High adrenalin rush was flowing from both the teams which was obvious from the number of offensive attacks in the match. I couldn't have realised that 90 minutes went of in a jiffy. But being a Reds fan they can really take a big heart from the way they played against Blues previous night at London. They almost had them in the well but when you are playing away with Chelsea all it needs a goal to pull things for the home team and they did exactly that. Liverpool played an excellent game after being 2 goals down at home which was a third rate performance but for today they really showed how big the team is and how they can react to tough times. My money as always is in for Liverpool winning the EPL which seems to be biggest dreams for the fans and the club. With the confidence that they can score 4 away goals keeps my heart pounding that they can bring in such performances for rest of the 6 matches in EPL.

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