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It would be easy to overreact to the Blues' defeat at St James' Park, but they have not being playing well in recent weeks and, on top of their current injury worries, this game could be coming at the wrong time right now. Chelsea will have been deflated after their Champions League defeat in Barcelona midweek, and even they might have trouble raising their game for this match. Liverpool will be in great heart after their midweek win over Leverkusen, and have the added benefit of going into the game as underdogs.

Liverpool have an outstanding record at the Millennium Stadium, having only lost to Arsenal in the Charity Shield. They were also underdogs two years ago when they beat United, and look worth an interest at 11/4 to lift the first piece of silverware of the season. In a game where goals may be at a premium, a safer bet could be on our Asian Handicap at 1.80 getting a half goal start - you will still collect if the game is draw. Let me say first that all I've seen of last nights game was what they showed on SSN this morning, ie the 'penalty' incident, the red card and the goal.

I'm gonna buck the trend here cos I didn't think it was a pen at all. Senderos had his back to Johnson and AJ appeared to have lost control of the ball then went over Senderos' leg. Not a foul in my opinion.

Also, I believe football should be like rugby and any backchat to a ref should be punished. Unfortunately it's something thats endemic in the game and you rarely see anyone carded for it. I'd like to defend McFadden but I have to say if I used the words 'to a ref I'd expect to be sent off or yellow carded at least. He was unfounate though cos it's something that rarely is punished by other refs. i'm cannot believe moyes never made a change last night , aj was alone all night and caused them problems . osman was ineffective (the norm of late) , why not push the lad forward , we were overrun regardless with four in midfield at least we could of kept a full back interested instead of allowing them the width they could stretch us with. iif all uses of the F word are to result in a sending off then fine, we all know where we stand, however they never result in a sending off, accusing Polll of being a cheat is, but that does not appear to be the case here, thus we were reduced to 10 men because of a misunderstanding.

Having set up as a 4-4-2 clearly Moyes wasn't planning to defend for a draw and pens but 10 men against some very gifted players forces a rethink brought about by an errant sending off.

he didn't feel ossie could do that then sub him for victor. i' generally agree with moyes and his subs but yesterday was defend and sneak a result . that will always leave the taste of we should of had a go imo, why not try for a goal and then defend it ?
however, all that said above is pointless as with 11 players on the pitch it wasn't as if we had the upper hand , they were better imo and that side would run most teams , how good were flamini , eboue djourou ?

as regards to the ref , as soon as he'd done it (red card) there was no way were we going to get the result , we spent the rest of the game abusing him ad not getting behind us , counterproductive imo

Let me finish by saying that Poll is not the best ref around, there's a list of his mistakes in EFC matches alone listed above but as far as I'm concerned he was not the main reason for us losing last night.

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