FA Cup Final : Liverpool vs West Ham
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At the end of the scond half xtra time , basically Liverpool has only got 7 players playing , Gerrard can't run , Cisse can't run anymore , Momo can't run anymore .......Carra also affected at the end .
My god , West Ham ... they really lost with their head held high ! -
Gerrad Man-Of-the-Match .
Who can deny that ?
Created the goal that close the gap to 2-1 , scored with a thunderbolt to make it 2-2 , and what a 3rd goal for him @ 89 minutes , almost 40 metres out , the ball went accurately , floating just on top of the ground , and loop into goal !
And his first FA Cup as captain ! -
Actually, only 3 people.Originally posted by Poolman:At the end of the scond half xtra time , basically Liverpool has only got 7 players playing , Gerrard can't run , Cisse can't run anymore , Momo can't run anymore .......Carra also affected at the end .
My god , West Ham ... they really lost with their head held high !
Hamann, Kromkamp, Morientes. Yep, the substitutes.
Everyone else really totally seh. I'm impressed they still won the cup. -
I thought it was going to be another English final heartbreak like last season against Chelski....Originally posted by Poolman:Gerrad Man-Of-the-Match .
Who can deny that ?
Created the goal that close the gap to 2-1 , scored with a thunderbolt to make it 2-2 , and what a 3rd goal for him @ 89 minutes , almost 40 metres out , the ball went accurately , floating just on top of the ground , and loop into goal !
And his first FA Cup as captain !
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i am still in shock...4 minutes of injury time...that was all we need...
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Listening to Andy Gray and Martin Tyler.....Originally posted by R3SsH|n:i am still in shock...4 minutes of injury time...that was all we need...
Kaoz, some of their comments are really ^$^$#-up but I think they're the best around. Even though most of their comments were on Cisse's boots. -
they were biased against west ham...it is a known fact that the pair of commentators always seem to be siding a particular team...kept talking about instanbul...Originally posted by CoolMyth:Listening to Andy Gray and Martin Tyler.....
Kaoz, some of their comments are really ^$^$#-up but I think they're the best around. Even though most of their comments were on Cisse's boots.
referee oso didn't seem to give the rub of the green to west ham...free kick outside the penalty area oso never give 10 yards...
but the talking point will be the debated throw in leading to gerrad's final equaliser... -
and reina was always some way off his line to save penalties..
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It was crazy....
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Absolute cracker, what a game...what a Final.
Again, when we tght it's game over...Captain Fantastic proved again and again he's such a impt player by drilling home a scorcher... no less in the dying minutes. And what a scorcher it was! Gerrard did not have a good season by his high standards but my my.... what a goal! -
Quite bizarre , Hislop seemed to be less busier 'keeper thru'out the 90 minutes .Originally posted by R3SsH|n:i am still in shock...4 minutes of injury time...that was all we need...
Ans still quite bizarre , when it matter most , Reina was on top .
West Ham was on top in every department , until that penalty shoot-out .
Our defense , midfield and forward finally prevail , although many tired legs , all thanks to experience . Our team possess high level of experience to absorb this type of intense pressure . -
Quite true also , the other 7 players waiting for penalty shoot-out .Originally posted by CoolMyth:Actually, only 3 people.
Hamann, Kromkamp, Morientes. Yep, the substitutes.
Everyone else really totally seh. I'm impressed they still won the cup. -
Funny enough , this whole thread nobody actually sulk about Kewell injury , like he did at Istanbul !
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Martin Tyler the key man for this sort of matches , without Tyler , the match commentary will be unlike an english game .Originally posted by CoolMyth:Listening to Andy Gray and Martin Tyler.....
Kaoz, some of their comments are really ^$^$#-up but I think they're the best around. Even though most of their comments were on Cisse's boots. -
I saw sometime ago while at Villeareal , Reina actually saves 16 penalties thru'out the entire La Liga campaign , and that's alot . A record i guess .Originally posted by stellazio:and reina was always some way off his line to save penalties.. -
Nice!! At least we won the FA cup this season.
Btw, methinks the cramps are more likely to be mental than physical. Especially Kewell. I've always admired the guy's skills but lately he's proven that he's not the man for the big games. He somehow always managed to hide from the action or in more recent "big games", get injured. Oh well, he'd better buck up, else there'd be Zenden and Gonzales vying for his position next season. -
Now that was an FA cup final that I have not seen in a long time.
Extra-Time? 3-3 at full time? Penalty Kicks?
Underdog leading 2-0 after 30 minutes? The favourite never leading in the game?
The 2001 FA Cup final was dramatic for the Michael Owen goals. But THIS 2006 final......man......I think it's as close as you can get to the night as Istanbul but still far far off.
Gerrard never gave up.
Liverpool started the game poorly. Misplaced passes everywhere. Over-cautious play.
Alonso had a bad game. Riise had a bad game. Kewell went missing and just like last season in the CL final he limped off the pitch a little after half time. Kewell should just admit he doesn't have what it takes for finals.
The first goal was a bad bad horrendous mistake by Alonso. Yeah I know Carragher scored the own goal, but Alonso out of nowhere with no pressure, passed the ball to the West Ham player! That was the worst mistake in a cup final that I have seen a Liverpool player make. I don't blame Carragher. But also, what the hell was it with Carragher and Hyppia changing sides in the centre? Any comment Benitez?
And then the second goal, Reina's normally fantastic handling lets him down badly.
2-0 West Ham and the fans thought it was all sewn up.
But Gerrard makes a cross and Cisse does the difficult and volleys home a goal! To be fair, Hislop was a hopeless keeper the whole game. I don't think he made a single save in open play this final.
And then it's half time.
After half time, Gerrard's determination forces a 2nd goal for Liverpool to level the score! Game on. Liverpool to go on to score the winner? Noooo......
Konchesky whips in a cross and somehow the ball is in the back of the net! Reina caught napping again. To be fair, there was a TREMENDOUS, I mean HUGE HUGE amount of luck for Konchesky's cross to have gone in.
And so it's 3-2 to West Ham. The clock ticks down. Alonso asks to be substituted. Spaniards off today? 2 minutes to go to 90 minutes, Pardew brings on Sheringham. More like a last hurrah for an old horse at 40 to break some records for appearances in finals for senior citizens.
Players going down with cramp. Full time. 4 minutes of extra time to be played.
Cisse down with cramp. I am getting ready to go to bed. It had been a poor performance by Liverpool and the defence really let the team down. They didn't deserve to win anyway.
91st minute, Gerrard gets the ball in the middle of the park, let's fly a cracker. Ball is in the bottom right hand corner. GOAL!
This has got to be THE goal of FA cup finals EVER (especially now you consider LFC won the FAP Cup). The distance he shot it was about where Alonso scored his long distance shot against Luton Town. But this time the Goalkeeper was at his line! To be fair, Shaka Hislop was as usual sleeping. Saw the ball coming late and dived too late too!
45% skill, 20% determination, 20% keeper sleeping, 15% pure luck.
So after 94 minutes of play, 3-3 the scoreline.
Extra time. Everyone pai kah (broken legs). Cramp everywhere. Cannot run liao. Want to collapse and die liao. Somehow everyone pulls through to push it to the penalty shootout. Special mention goes to Reina waking up to make that last minute save.
Special note also that Morientes cannot score a goal for nuts! He cannot even shoot properly! He really underperformed. His glory days are history.
So on to the penalties. The question on everyone's minds. Istanbul again? Has Reina truly replaced Dudek?
Surprisingly, Benitez and Pardew took not more than 5 minutes to choose their kickers and order of kicks. (They probably planned it during the extra time play)
So on to the kicks. This has got to be the fastest penalty shootout I've seen. No slow long walk up of the player to the spot. No slow interchanges.
First kick, Hamann vs Hislop. The cool german scores. Hislop guessed the right direction but a keeper like him couldn't save anything today
2nd kick, Zamora vs Reina, he dives and saves! Woo hoo!
Next up Hyppia vs Hislop. Hyppia passes the ball to Hislop AFTER Hislop dived to the right. The ball rolled to Hislop. Reminder note : Never put Hyppia up for a penalty
4th kick, Sheringham vs Reina. Sheringham buries it! No fuss
5th kick, Gerrard steps up. Star player ballooning? We've seen it time and time again. Nope. Gerrard buries it. No sweat. Cool captain
6th kick, Konchesky vs Reina. The guy who fluked the goal against Reina. Will Reina crumble? Nope! Reina saves with his trailing legs!
7th Kick, Riise steps up. He drives it down the centre, Hislop was close with his trailing legs, but no dice. Remember I said he couldn't save anything the whole day?
8th kick, Anton Ferdinand to save the day. But no one is gonna gatecrash the coming of Reina the Spanish Spiderman!
Liverpool win the FA Cup for the 7th time. This will be known as the Gerrard and Reina FA Cup final. Fitting since Gerrard won the PFA player award, Player of the month for May and Reina won the best goalie award this season.
Who needs Dudek when you got Reina?
Interesting though, I sensed that the players didn't really savour this win that much, as hard fought as it was. Was it because the FA Cup is no big deal? Cisse opened the box pointed to the medal and gestured to his team-mates like he was saying "I played so hard, cramped my hamstrings and all I got was this tiny medal?"
I realised why they were like this. After last season in Istanbul, 3-0 down at half time to AC Milan, and they did the same thing, and it was the Champions League final, and it was AC Milan......well even this FA Cup win doesn't come anywhere close to that night.
Fact is, for this batch of players, this FA Cup final hard fought as it were seemed more like all in a day's work.
It will be a long time before we see anything come close to matching the feat that was in May 2005 in Istanbul.
You'll Never Walk Alone. Benitez rules.
1st Season : Champions League Winners, League Cup finalists, 5th in EPL
2nd Season : FA Cup Winners, 3rd in EPL
3rd Season : EPL winners, League Cup winners?
The Rafalution is in full swing! -
Kewell seems like a player who cant play in finals. Always injuried.
Liverpool had a bad game if not for Stevie wonder's wonder work..... Liverpool would not be celebrating.
Riise was in half mind between attack and defence which end up with him doing a bad job in defence. -
u forgot our super cup this season laOriginally posted by cyke:Now that was an FA cup final that I have not seen in a long time.
Extra-Time? 3-3 at full time? Penalty Kicks?
Underdog leading 2-0 after 30 minutes? The favourite never leading in the game?
The 2001 FA Cup final was dramatic for the Michael Owen goals. But THIS 2006 final......man......I think it's as close as you can get to the night as Istanbul but still far far off.
Gerrard never gave up.
Liverpool started the game poorly. Misplaced passes everywhere. Over-cautious play.
Alonso had a bad game. Riise had a bad game. Kewell went missing and just like last season in the CL final he limped off the pitch a little after half time. Kewell should just admit he doesn't have what it takes for finals.
The first goal was a bad bad horrendous mistake by Alonso. Yeah I know Carragher scored the own goal, but Alonso out of nowhere with no pressure, passed the ball to the West Ham player! That was the worst mistake in a cup final that I have seen a Liverpool player make. I don't blame Carragher. But also, what the hell was it with Carragher and Hyppia changing sides in the centre? Any comment Benitez?
And then the second goal, Reina's normally fantastic handling lets him down badly.
2-0 West Ham and the fans thought it was all sewn up.
But Gerrard makes a cross and Cisse does the difficult and volleys home a goal! To be fair, Hislop was a hopeless keeper the whole game. I don't think he made a single save in open play this final.
And then it's half time.
After half time, Gerrard's determination forces a 2nd goal for Liverpool to level the score! Game on. Liverpool to go on to score the winner? Noooo......
Konchesky whips in a cross and somehow the ball is in the back of the net! Reina caught napping again. To be fair, there was a TREMENDOUS, I mean HUGE HUGE amount of luck for Konchesky's cross to have gone in.
And so it's 3-2 to West Ham. The clock ticks down. Alonso asks to be substituted. Spaniards off today? 2 minutes to go to 90 minutes, Pardew brings on Sheringham. More like a last hurrah for an old horse at 40 to break some records for appearances in finals for senior citizens.
Players going down with cramp. Full time. 4 minutes of extra time to be played.
Cisse down with cramp. I am getting ready to go to bed. It had been a poor performance by Liverpool and the defence really let the team down. They didn't deserve to win anyway.
91st minute, Gerrard gets the ball in the middle of the park, let's fly a cracker. Ball is in the bottom right hand corner. GOAL!
This has got to be THE goal of FA cup finals EVER (especially now you consider LFC won the FAP Cup). The distance he shot it was about where Alonso scored his long distance shot against Luton Town. But this time the Goalkeeper was at his line! To be fair, Shaka Hislop was as usual sleeping. Saw the ball coming late and dived too late too!
45% skill, 20% determination, 20% keeper sleeping, 15% pure luck.
So after 94 minutes of play, 3-3 the scoreline.
Extra time. Everyone pai kah (broken legs). Cramp everywhere. Cannot run liao. Want to collapse and die liao. Somehow everyone pulls through to push it to the penalty shootout. Special mention goes to Reina waking up to make that last minute save.
Special note also that Morientes cannot score a goal for nuts! He cannot even shoot properly! He really underperformed. His glory days are history.
So on to the penalties. The question on everyone's minds. Istanbul again? Has Reina truly replaced Dudek?
Surprisingly, Benitez and Pardew took not more than 5 minutes to choose their kickers and order of kicks. (They probably planned it during the extra time play)
So on to the kicks. This has got to be the fastest penalty shootout I've seen. No slow long walk up of the player to the spot. No slow interchanges.
First kick, Hamann vs Hislop. The cool german scores. Hislop guessed the right direction but a keeper like him couldn't save anything today
2nd kick, Zamora vs Reina, he dives and saves! Woo hoo!
Next up Hyppia vs Hislop. Hyppia passes the ball to Hislop AFTER Hislop dived to the right. The ball rolled to Hislop. Reminder note : Never put Hyppia up for a penalty
4th kick, Sheringham vs Reina. Sheringham buries it! No fuss
5th kick, Gerrard steps up. Star player ballooning? We've seen it time and time again. Nope. Gerrard buries it. No sweat. Cool captain
6th kick, Konchesky vs Reina. The guy who fluked the goal against Reina. Will Reina crumble? Nope! Reina saves with his trailing legs!
7th Kick, Riise steps up. He drives it down the centre, Hislop was close with his trailing legs, but no dice. Remember I said he couldn't save anything the whole day?
8th kick, Anton Ferdinand to save the day. But no one is gonna gatecrash the coming of Reina the Spanish Spiderman!
Liverpool win the FA Cup for the 7th time. This will be known as the Gerrard and Reina FA Cup final. Fitting since Gerrard won the PFA player award, Player of the month for May and Reina won the best goalie award this season.
Who needs Dudek when you got Reina?
Interesting though, I sensed that the players didn't really savour this win that much, as hard fought as it was. Was it because the FA Cup is no big deal? Cisse opened the box pointed to the medal and gestured to his team-mates like he was saying "I played so hard, cramped my hamstrings and all I got was this tiny medal?"
I realised why they were like this. After last season in Istanbul, 3-0 down at half time to AC Milan, and they did the same thing, and it was the Champions League final, and it was AC Milan......well even this FA Cup win doesn't come anywhere close to that night.
Fact is, for this batch of players, this FA Cup final hard fought as it were seemed more like all in a day's work.
It will be a long time before we see anything come close to matching the feat that was in May 2005 in Istanbul.
You'll Never Walk Alone. Benitez rules.
1st Season : Champions League Winners, League Cup finalists, 5th in EPL
2nd Season : FA Cup Winners, 3rd in EPL
3rd Season : EPL winners, League Cup winners?
The Rafalution is in full swing! -
Yeh, put simply...Gerrard dragged LFC out from the dead. Pool looked like it's always in 1st gear and never really threaten much. But thanks to Raffie's tactical switch, he promptly took out Alonso (who was injured anyway) and replaced him with a defensive minded Kromkamp. He saw that Gerrard wasn't doing too much on the right and had to switch tactics. With the Dutchman in, Gerrard was allow to spearhead the much needed attack and urgency for goals in the centre of the park.
The Hamann substitution was another gd one. His experience and no fuss passing provide stability and allowing Gerrard to do the damage up front. Hamann was there, shouting to his players to focus the job on hand.
Come back King of Finals as they say but kudos to the players and abstute tactical change by Raffie.
Come next Season, we will provide even stiffier competition to Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd for the EPL Champ.
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... we were absolutely awful ... stevie g got us to the penalties single handedly ... then pepe took over ... he let in 3 goals in normal time then saved 3 penalties ... just a crazy game ...
... credit to west ham for a good game ... also credit to our boys after a long long season ... -
Football is a funny old game !Originally posted by kpo:... we were absolutely awful ... stevie g got us to the penalties single handedly ... then pepe took over ... he let in 3 goals in normal time then saved 3 penalties ... just a crazy game ...
... credit to west ham for a good game ... also credit to our boys after a long long season ...
The better team lost last night !
Oh yes , "Awful" is the word to describe how Liverpool played last night . -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualreplay/premiership/index.shtml?476674
For some that have missed the match like me. -
That's why I love Dietmar Hamann.
Damn, that guy really gives the team stability. Everytime he comes on, the team, especially Gerrard felt safe to venture deep into the opposition half.
Please, keep Hamann.
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Does the strikers score? No. Does Alonso score goals from a distance out? No. Does Sissoko tackles well enough like a non-defensive Midfielder Gerrard? No. Who scores important and spectacular goals? Gerrard. Who refused to give up on the match even if Liverpool is many goals down? Gerrard. Who is cheering his team mates on and pushing them to play out of their skin? Gerrard. Liverpool is nothing without Gerrard. Correct me if i'm wrong.
Cheers.
C.K