LIVERPOOL v CHELSEA COMMUNITY SHIELD

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Meet the Referee

[Knox_Harrington]

s***ting myself that they target our players. There will be a snidey Lampard shin tackle from the back on Xabi.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

I reckon we will stick out a full strength team. We need to sharpen our pencils for the start of the Premiership and the huge CL return leg.

 

 

Reina

 

Finnan Carra Hyypia Riise

 

Gerrard Sissoko Alonso Gonzalez

 

Garcia

 

Crouch

 

When our legs start to go as they naturally do, I would imagine the pace and ability of Pennant & Bellamy will be brought on to relieve the pressure that will surely build

Edited August 11, 2006 by Rory Fitzgerald

[Guest mitya]

Hopefully the team will have a better game than Wednesday's. It will be a mistake to leave out Pennant, because he is in good form and Chelsea don't have a top-class left defender yet. Bellamy deserves a start after a goal in front of the Kop in his debut game and an amount of work he put in. Hopefully, Robbie will be fit as another striking option.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Hopefully the team will have a better game than Wednesday's. It will be a mistake to leave out Pennant, because he is in good form and Chelsea don't have a top-class left defender yet. Bellamy deserves a start after a goal in front of the Kop in his debut game and an amount of work he put in. Hopefully, Robbie will be fit as another striking option.

 

Any other game I would agree, and I can see the logic, but vs Chelsea I imagine Rafa has a set team and way of playing.

[Guest mitya]

Any other game I would agree, and I can see the logic, but vs Chelsea I imagine Rafa has a set team and way of playing.

 

Yes, I understand Chelsea is a special case, but we didn't win the Premiership from them last season. We do want this to happen this season, so changes need to be made. This is the least significant out of at least three meetings with Chelsea this season, so a good chance to experiment.

[Reggie]

I reckon we will stick out a full strength team. We need to sharpen our pencils for the start of the Premiership and the huge CL return leg.

Reina

 

Finnan Carra Hyypia Riise

 

Gerrard Sissoko Alonso Gonzalez

 

Garcia

 

Crouch

 

When our legs start to go as they naturally do, I would imagine the pace and ability of Pennant & Bellamy will be brought on to relieve the pressure that will surely build

 

 

Think that will be the team too. Garcia loves playing against Chavski.

[Stevie H]

i think you start bellamy and tell him to spend the entire match saying to john terry "carra's brother f***ed your mum and she loved it".

[Knox_Harrington]

i think you start bellamy and tell him to spend the entire match saying to john terry "carra's brother f***ed your mum and she loved it".

Is the only reasonable thing to do.

[Andy @ Allerton]

I wish sometimes we had a third team made up of nutters that were of purple aki proportions that could just go on and kick em out of the ground and not care when they got 2 year bans

[floyd]

Garcia loves playing against Chavski.

Too right. Time for this again

 

[Guz]

Have we sold out our allocation yet?

[ali]

from the Post -

 

Yesterday, officials confirmed the start of the match had to be delayed at Anfield because of congestion around the ticket booths caused by fans picking up tickets for the Community Shield match against Chelsea this Sunday .

 

An LFC spokeswoman last night said the club's entire 24,000 ticket allocation had sold out ahead of the match, due to kick off at 3pm.

[Guest Kev]

from the Post -

 

Yesterday, officials confirmed the start of the match had to be delayed at Anfield because of congestion around the ticket booths caused by fans picking up tickets for the Community Shield match against Chelsea this Sunday .

 

Half truth.

[Bjarkinn]

Rest Garcia and Xabi, they need to be fit for the Iceland-Spain friendly on tuesday which i will attend.

 

 

nahh play them both i know that garcia will shine in that game

[live]

i think you start bellamy and tell him to spend the entire match saying to john terry "carra's brother f***ed your mum and she loved it".

 

we have found our next manager!

[crisps]

------------reina-----------

finnan-carra-hyypia-riise

---------xabi--momo-----

-----------gerrard--------

--pennant--------garcia--

---------bellamy-----------

[Guest AussieGerrard]

I wish sometimes we had a third team made up of nutters that were of purple aki proportions that could just go on and kick em out of the ground and not care when they got 2 year bans

 

Diao? it would be the best thing he ever did for the club

[stressederic]

Time for an early Magic 8 Ball prediction I think.

 

Q: Will we win the Community Shield tomorrow?

 

A: My sources say no

 

Bugger.

[psl]

Time for an early Magic 8 Ball prediction I think.

 

Q: Will we win the Community Shield tomorrow?

 

A: My sources say no

 

Bugger.

 

Early season rustiness. You obviously have the John Arne Riise of Magic 8 Balls.

Edited August 12, 2006 by psl

[stressederic]

Early season rustiness. You obviously have the John Arne Riise of Magic 8 Balls.

 

That'll be it.

 

Hopefully it'll be back up to form in time for Friday when I need to ask it how we'll do across the course of the whole season.

[Jezzman]

We'll crack some chav nuts tomorrow that's for sure.... GO u Redmen!!

[kenny7]

We'll crack some chav nuts tomorrow that's for sure.... GO u Redmen!!

 

We've signed Rooney?

[surf]

Jose up to the old mind games again

 

 

Jose Mourinho believes Liverpool could suffer a confidence blow if they fail to beat his '50%' Chelsea team in tomorrow's Community Shield at the Millennium Stadium.

 

The Blues have only just returned from a trip to the United States and - unlike the Reds - have not yet played a competitive match as Mourinho continues to fine-tune his plans.

 

Summer signings Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko are both expected to feature in Cardiff. However, France midfielder Claude Makelele has been given extra time to recover from the World Cup, and although William Gallas - who failed to link up with the rest of the squad in America - is now back at the club, he will not be included. England midfielder Joe Cole and first-choice goalkeeper Petr Cech are both missing through injury.

 

Mourinho is in no doubt Liverpool will feel sharper having already started their campaign with a Champions League qualifier against Maccabi Haifa. He declared: 'They will feel that they are in much better condition than Chelsea, so they have to win the game. 'If they lose against a Chelsea side at just 50% of their quality, that could affect their confidence ahead of the Premiership season.'

 

Mourinho added: 'Every other team - even the ones not competing for the Premiership - have been working for more than a month. 'They will all start the Premiership on fire and we are not in the same condition. 'I just have to hope that the quality we have on the pitch will be enough to get us through.' The Blues boss accepts it may take some time for the squad to hit top gear, but remains confident ahead of his quest for a third straight Barclays Premiership crown. 'The start of the new season is a big challenge, but the solution is not to be worried,' Mourinho said.

 

'We are not ready to play 90 minutes because we have not worked on certain aspects of our game. 'If we drop a couple of points at the start of the season it is not a bad thing - it is a very long season of 40 games.'

 

The future of Ashley Cole, meanwhile, remains uncertain. Talks between Chelsea and Arsenal would appear to be deadlocked, with both parties still millions apart in their valuation of the England defender. Mourinho, however, does not want to be continually drawn on the saga. He said: 'I do not think it is correct that I am speaking about the qualities of Arsene Wenger's player. 'I think there is enough between me and him. I want a clean sheet, I think he wants a clean sheet.

 

'We both made mistakes. I do not want to make mistakes any more.

 

'The only thing I can say about Ashley Cole is what is clear and obvious and everybody knows Chelsea would like to have the player. We made an offer to Arsenal. Arsenal did not accept the offer. 'At this moment things have stopped because there is not an agreement. He is an Arsenal player.' Mourinho, though, may soon have to explore other options. 'The deadline is August 31 - but maybe before that we have to solve our life because we cannot wait forever. 'Maybe we cannot be in Arsenal's hands and we have to make a decision.'

[Swagger]

i think you start bellamy and tell him to spend the entire match saying to john terry "carra's brother f***ed your mum and she loved it".

 

Why else did Rafa sign him?