Imagine bagging the Europa League and FA Cup, getting CL football next season and van Gaal getting the boot...all in the space of a week! That would have been sooooo awesome!Should have? Not sure about that. Both teams in the Liverpool tie were pretty woeful, we were just worse.Could have and should have been us!
The Premier League seems so open in recent years that a team that works hard and has plenty of pace can do wonders - not just Leicester, but also Liverpool's challenge a couple of seasons ago have shown that.
- find a way to beat the physical limitations of humanity then they will eventually get exhausted.Noted.
Great! It will be so nice to see them being trashed by Barca!
Hey Iceland is nice.
Liverpool also have a better away record in the league. Sevilla are the only team in La Liga not to win a single game away from home. They would be relegated on the away table.Just noticed that both Liverpool and Sevilla have each won 1 away game in the EL all season (1-0 v Rubin Kazan in the groups for Liverpool, 2-1 v Athletic Bilbao in the QF for Sevilla)
Sevilla are the 'away' team in the final, so congrats Liverpool
I think Dr. Ramon Segura offers his services to Pep Guaridola exclusively!Hopefully them being in Champions League will mean they will get rundown by having to play to their usual maximum pace twice a week, unless they - somehow
...which means that Sevilla are nailed on for the victory. Such is the nature of football these days.
Just need to get the same on Mignolet from the LFC physio and we're good to go.
Same here, it's been far too long since we've been in a meaningful final so I'm already nervous as feck. A trophy is always a nice way to end the season but qualification for the CL next year woule be huge.
I am not all that worried on Mingolet tonight, he's already messed up once in a cup final this season so hopefully that is out of his system, though with him you never know. This is the first time i have been confident Liverpool will win a final since the Cardiff final and even that we had to take it to penalties. I just can not imagine a team winning it 3 years on the trot, someone has to stop them and it will be us.Especially seeing as we were on the verge of buying him a few years ago. Football has a habit of these little coincidences coming back to bite you on the arse.
very true
I predict Wertherian-esque drama from him as he hates Klopp.
I went with 3-0 in the predictions between friends of mine
Only thing that gives me confidence is that I was more nervous before the Villareal and we completely played them off the park while they're supposedly much better than Sevilla this year. That was at Anfield though, anything can happen in a final of course. Still, we have to win this. The playerd will be well up for it, as will our travelling fans. Should be a cracking game.That's just apathy about being in a shit competition.
I don't think he is the one to be worried about contradicting himself. He will focus on one thing and ignore being wrong on the other part.
The oldest association cup competition in the world (The FA Cup)
Next season's group stage can't start soon enough.
Next year I might give the competition another go, there's some big teams taking it seriously next year I think.
We won the title three years ago.. not 25 plus like you lot. Let's not exaggerate now. We are playing our worst football in years yet still finishing higher in the league then you and beating you home and away. .
There were big teams in the competition this year, actually it's arguably the strongest year in a while for EL with Monaco, Tottenham, Lazio, Dortmund, Villarreal, Sevilla etc. all there.
It's a difficult one for me. I guess most UK based people will probably prefer the FA Cup but winning the Europa League, and especially the UEFA Cup back in the days, gets a lot more recognition across Europe. We knocked out better teams to get to the final as well (not saying you had an easy road but West Ham are not Dortmund level). Personally, I'd still rather win the EL but the FA Cup comes close. League Cup is miles behind though, completely irrelevant compared to those two imo.
Europa League is a bigger trophy than FA Cup. Domestic cups tend to be important for domestic fans but worldwide they do not get the same recognition. Winning EL is likely to be remembered for a very long time, it's an European troph my even if its value has diminished since they started allowing 5th to 7th placed teams.
