cosmicway

For us Greeks what can be more beautiful ? England and the Russian allies as presidents. Don't forget that the first match in Europe after liberation in 1945 took place at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and Dynamo Moscow in a packed stadium (the result was 3-3).

I hate teams who use refereeing tactics and the nutty Lazziali.

City can lose to Everton-Palace But L'pool have to lose to CFC and Palace. Pie in the sky.

In football the result matters. I have been fascinated by Sweden national team in the past and I have seen Brazil performances that sucked. More often than not the opposite happens of course between those two, but it's a question of players and squad. How the nation approaches football -strong tactics or individualism- does n't matter. Argentina under Diegito went down 4-0 to Germany in SA. Where was their Latin flair ?

No one guarantees a win against Cowdenbeath.

Let them win 12-0. Practically we are in the CL final and there is no reason why we can't beat RM or BM in Lisbon.

It's not logical to exhibit pessimism but the injury list is worrying. The return match will not be like the one against PSG. More like the CFC - Barcelona 1-0 of 2012 and should be approached that way, imo. Barcelona of 2012 were of course much better than Atletico today.

Hazard, Eto'o, Cech and now Terry. The list is just getting bigger and bigger !

What happened to Czech ? Arm injuries to players and goalkeepers are extremely rare. Such bad luck ?

Excellent result but they are no pushovers at the bridge.

We had two fair chances, despite possession belonging to them. They never came near to scoring, only a little with that shot Terry blocked with his back.

Luis shots are not dippers.

Was Czech injured in the same place as last week ?

Atletico are an enhanced version of PAOK Salonika. They won't win.

If it is the no 1 of the first link, it's silent. The second link asks user to disable adbloc. What will happen if I do ? Before ad bloc I was being cut every two minutes.

The first 25 minutes are crucial. If 0-0 then they will become nervous. They want 2 goals difference and clean sheet to be happy.

Liverpool finish like train. As things stand we are not away from finishing above City, the hopeless-to-chase opponent of a few weeks back according to some, but Liverpool manage to take all points in their matches. Somehow we buckled, as shown by the injury list as well. This is called a bounce. The biggest bounces in the history of football were Brazil losing to Urguay in 1950, Hungary to Germany in 1954 and France to Germany in 1986. Just when everything was going well, disaster came along. Can that be explained ? Some people tell me it's because you read so much about Brazil, Hungary and France that those events are stuck in your memory, but I wonder. Maybe there is an explanation for all those Jeckyll-Hyde transformations.

We won't play West Ham type defense. That's an invitation for 6-0 defeat. We did play like that against Barcelona in the 2-2 but don't forget that we were soon reduced to 10 in that match and could n't do much else. Mourinho's Inter Milan also played that way against Barca -and held out- but they too were reduced to 10. Btw those sending offs, Motta and Terry, were for minor incidents, both in the first halfs.

No Atletico fans. The Greeks enter all foreign forums - because they want to bet on the matches. The Turks of course and the French. No visit from Atletico.

It's not a striker's game tomorrow - the foremost task is to crowd them and frustrate their wingers. If we witness scenes like Sunderland's Alonso-Wickham goal then it's goodbye. I hope Cech is ok.

Yesterday we failed to win because of defense 80%, because of attack 20%. 2-3 now the Scousers.

There is a glimmer of hope for City. Let's work for them - they don't set journalists around saying they 'll drawn us in the Mersey.

Scousers 3-1 up. No resistance apparently.

I want to know this: Who was responsible for Alonso left alone by a country mile and a furlong in the equalizer and never mind Schwarzer dropping the ball afterwards - that could happen to anyone. That was n't maybe the decider, with one hour left, but it's highly indicative of the loosened nuts state of affairs yesterday.

When they scored the equalizer the man who shot first had enough time to order coffee. Then in the penalty it was a Spurs like defensive situation. That's not Chelsea, it's some other team - Tromso perhaps or Cowdenbeath. No strengths left.