Liverpool 2 Inter Milan 0

Even though the score seems to say Liverpool beat Inter Milan convincingly, it does not say it all.

I was watching the match bleary eyed at the ungodly hour of 3.45am to 5.45am.

The starting eleven always have someone unexpectedly playing. Dirk Kuyt started again! He must have given Benitez some special “ECA” after training every day to warrant a starting place all the time despite his lack of goals esp as a striker.

The game started the way Benitez always wanted Liverpool to play in all Euro home games, which is to give “full-court” pressure in basketball terms. He always tries to do this to European teams coming to Anfield for the first time as Anfield is a crazy place to visit for away teams.

The fans were behaving like they were playing on the field too, singing and cheering which gave the players extra energy to surge all over.

After the initial 20 mins when everything went back to normal, Liverpool began to have the same problems again. It’s always having loads of chances but unable to finish them off. It’s quite frustrating for a fan to watch seriously.

I began to be bored right in the middle of the second half until Benitez took off Babel for Crouch which states the intention of Benitez to finish the game. Luckily in the 85th min a lucky deflection for Kuyt that the Julio Cesar fooled and got into goal. Hopefully this is the beginning of many for Kuyt. Gerrard subsequently scored a superb long diagonal low shot into goal which all the Inter Milan players missed intercepting. This sums up all the hard work and we won the match!

My opinion so far…

Liverpool seems to totally different team in Europe than in EPL. This I think is strongly attributed to Benitez. I’m beginning to get fed up at his lack of ability in the EPL. Yes the Champions League is very important but we need to restore our pride in winning the Premier League. He always keeps the best players for Champions League and not the EPL.

I’m losing my patience on him…
Posted by JaSoN on 2/20/2008 08:59:00 AM

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Superb finishing by Torres!