IT’S another one of Heaton’s letters to himself, one where the younger Heaton is telling the current Heaton not to be a giant shithouse.
I am, of course, referring to Liverpool coming out of the ground tonight three goals to the good having scored FIVE goals.
But having scored FIVE goals and establishing a THREE-goal advantage, the instant reaction to the full-time whistle was one of, to be honest, frustration and a touch of trepidation.
Had Liverpool gone two down and then stormed to a 5-2 win you’d have come out the ground absolutely flying — chest-beating defiance, fuck Roma, we’re Liverpool, fuck them.
But how it played out, and added to the recent memory of Roma doing exactly what they need to do in the previous round against Barcelona, fuel to the Liverpool head fuck.
Fuck that.
The reality is, to put it in context, and as amazing as the comeback was against Barcelona, it will not and can not be repeated — that lightning ain’t striking twice.
In fact, had Roma been not been the beneficiary of the biggest fluke ever to inflict itself on the European game, no one is giving Roma a sniff.
I think I read somewhere that some boffin analysed the balls out of Roma v Barcelona comeback and came to the conclusion that it basically was a result of some weird fluctuation in space time, or maybe he might have said it was four times less likely than Barca’s own comeback against Paris Saint-Germain last season.
Anyway, they’ve lucked out once, they absolutely will not do it again, not against these amazing, glorious, dramatic bastards.
Roma haven’t conceded a goal at home in the Champions League? So fucking what. They haven’t played Liverpool there yet, have they?
Fuck them and fuck the doubt. In fact, fuck this, I’m off to book a hotel in Kiev.
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You are 100% right
We’ll win there without problem
Go Reds Go from Canada
I will meet u there in Kiev
That’s the spirit. Hopefully we don’t pick up any more injuries before the 2nd leg. We go there and play our game and we would not only score, I reckon we get a draw at least.
Yes they have not conceded at home but we have also scored in every single away game and are unbeaten so far.
Bring on Yer Roma by the score!
Love it
My thoughts exactly. They’re not going to keep us out the net in Rome. And they’re not going to best us by three anyhow. Probably another 2-1 away win like at Etihad. No cause for alarm.
It’s entirely in our hands. If we go out to Rome determined to score goals and win, we will win again. Their defence is there to be exploited again.
If we sit back and try and defend for most of the game with no focus on scoring more, we will bring trouble on ourselves. Attack their defensive weaknesses and we’ll cruise into the final.
100% I think Barca were a bit relaxed. We now know what Roma are capable of so we can go into the game determined not to let them play their game and not being complacent. A win or a draw and we are through.
But man oh man, it is going to be a long week!
Come on Liverpool!
You better believe Jurgen is going to wisely be treating the second leg as a match to be won outright rather than trying to be clever and creep to the finals with a narrow second leg loss…. we are not over-confident like Barca were…
Well in Andy!
Roma lost 8 times at home this season. Not having the moan.
He’s talking about in the champions league mate
But surely that matters? Its the same team. We haven’t lost at home this season in the league or European Cup. It matters.
Yes finally someone banging the drum of positivity we’ll in. I got bored about people coming out of the ground heating people bleat on “they did it v Barca.” City needed to score 3 times against us, got the early goal and how did that turn out? It’s the same scenario. “Roma haven’t conceded a goal at home” – we’ll make up for that next week, their defence will be having kittens thinking about how fucking great we are.
If anyone thought Roma,or any CL semi finalist was going to throw in the towel and not score, they must be as thick as the thugs outside last night. We go to Rome and win decisively again.
Klopp said he’s not picking anyone who doesn’t believe Roma could come back. Is right, Jurgen.
This absolutely bewildering football team he has put together are creating memories we’ll never forget. I couldn’t watch it last night for technical reasons and was reduced to a blithering wreck listening on the radio to the oh-so-obviously a Liverpool fan Alan Greene flanked by Robbies Fowler and Savage. They were all speechless. Savage said he’s not seen any side play like that all season against anyone. Lawrenson’s come out today and said it was “unlike any football he’s ever known.” Take that in for a second. Remember who Lawrenson is, who he played for, who he played under. Unlike any football he’s EVER KNOWN. I’ve never seen anything like it either, but I’ve not seen what Lawrenson’s seen.
We need to revel in this football team. They are absolutely ridiculous, superlative-defying, compliment-exhausting, relentless, irrepressible, indomitable lunatic bastards.
We can even enjoy conceding in some awful, perverse way, because it’s all part of it. Part of the stories we’ll inevitably tell. Wherever this ends up, I’d not swap what we get to watch for any other side in the world.
Yeah mate, loved that reaction from Klopp. He knows what needs to be done.
Up the Mighty Reds, Allez Allez Allez.
Lads great work on the podcasts but consider going to YouTube and watch the videos on DIY Sound Booths. You’d sound 10x more professional on the production for the cost of a few pints. YNWA!
We’ll win there as well…
A lot of people referencing the Barcelona game.
The first leg at the Nou Camp was a lot closer than the scoreline suggests.
Roma should have been a lot closer to Barcelona in terms of the scoreline after that first leg at the Nou Camp.
This gave Roma the confidence to believe they could overturn the deficit in the second leg.
Compare that with last night?
They’ve been absolutely ragged everywhere.
They were “lucky”to escape with 2 goals.
Dzeko was on the floor at the end.
Traumatized by the game he’d just seen play out.
So I think it’s wrong to compare the last round with this round.
They have the same job to do but they are not faced with the same problem.
We are a totally different animal to Barca….
We have extreme pace…. in multiple positions.
Kop for that….
The deciding factor in Rome will be belief.
Anyone reckon Jurgen will have his boys believing they will score ?
Anyone reckon Di Francesco will have his boys believing they can stop us scoring ?
44 goals in 11 UCL games so far !!!. 4 fucking goals per fucking game !!!