The great comebacks

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Got into a discussion on twitter with Sir Bob @bobthered about whether 05 or 19 was the better. 

 

I have thoughts on this that I'll have to form before posting. 

 

Essentially - 

 

19 LFC much better team

05 Milan I argue better than 19 Barca

 

05 we had 45m to get it together

19 we needed 4 goals and had away goals hanging over us

 

05 Milan were on another planet in the 1st half, 19 Barca weren't that great over 2 legs

 

that's just a start. There really is no right answer but what do people think?

[Tosh]

05

We got a bloody great big cup immediately

[Case]

05

77

19

 

In that order

Edited May 10, 2019 by Case

[Nerik]

I think 05 was better because we were being ripped to shreds in the 1st half. At HT I hoped that at best we could get a goal to have something to cheer about. 

[Conrad]

05

77

19

 

In that order

We didn’t need a comeback in 77 unless you are talking about st etienne I guess which was amazing but not really a comeback like the other two

[Molby]

Poor thread

 

1 out of 10

[growler]

Don’t think you can compare games from different rounds.

 

Chelsea 05, Dortmund or Barca - I’m sure there are other semi’s which have been crazy too.

[downunder]

Dortmund wasnt a semi final.

[psl]

It's always Istanbul.

[Case]

We didn’t need a comeback in 77 unless you are talking about st etienne I guess which was amazing but not really a comeback like the other two

It was literally a comeback.

[downunder]

Personally I think it was our best Anfield game, we have had more dramatic wins, and closer ones but the performance and who we were against makes it better than all the others I can remember.

[JRC]

It was literally a comeback.

We still needed 2 goals to win with less time left than on Tuesday. And St Etienne were very, very good.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Nothing comes close to Istanbul. The quality of the Milan side was ridiculous and the team we had weren’t anywhere near their level.

 

This Barcelona team are, a few players aside, just not as good as we are.

[Hassony]

No one talking about Auxerre in 91

[RBM]

Luton ‘06

[Drexl]

Nothing comes close to Istanbul. The quality of the Milan side was ridiculous and the team we had weren’t anywhere near their level.

 

This Barcelona team are, a few players aside, just not as good as we are.

For some reason, I didn’t think that Milan side was that good. I thought we had a chance. Looking back, they certainly had a fantastic side. I have no idea how we could compete.

Istanbul is unparalleled for me.

[Falconhoof]

They could have been 5 up by half time. We were shocking in that first half.

[Chewie]

This is the AC Milan lineup that night.. it never ceases to amaze me how frightening they were on paper and in the first 45. Overall Barca 19 have 2 players who would walk into the Milan side (Messi / suarez) but on the whole that Milan lineup is simply stunning.. 

 

Dida

Cafu

Stam

Nesta

Maldini

Pirlo

Gattuso

Seedorf

Kaka

Shevchenko

Crespo

[Gunga Din]

05 still for me, because we had half a dozen good players surrounded by crap. that  Milan side were one of the best sides of the last 40 years. 

 

Tuesday night was the best night at Anfield though, beats Chelsea 05 hands down

[Sion]

I reckon Milan during the 00s are potentially the most over rated team in football history. They only won Serie A once in 10 years and were literally docked points for fixing refs.

 

People have this romantic notion of them for some reason, but the team looks much better on paper than it was in reality.

[Gethin]

05 still for me, because we had half a dozen good players surrounded by crap. that  Milan side were one of the best sides of the last 40 years. 

 

Tuesday night was the best night at Anfield though, beats Chelsea 05 hands down

 

Chelsea 05 was glorious but we rode our luck through some of it. Tuesday we destroyed one of the best sides in Europe

[scoose]

Chelsea 05 was glorious but we rode our luck through some of it. Tuesday we destroyed one of the best sides in Europe

 

f***ing battered them mate. they couldnt cope and we didnt even have the big lads playing up front. Pure bullied them

[Earl Hafler]

I reckon Milan during the 00s are potentially the most over rated team in football history. They only won Serie A once in 10 years and were literally docked points for fixing refs.

People have this romantic notion of them for some reason, but the team looks much better on paper than it was in reality.

Frauds ?

[growler]

Has to be 05 thinking about it. It was the final for a start. Rafa’s first season. Smicer, traore, cisse, biscan, Le Tallec. Vs a who’s who of European football on the other team. And half time, we were dead and buried.

 

Doesn’t take anything away from Barca - a stunning result where we said f*** you to the establishment. From the moment robbo ruffled Messi in first few minutes I had a feeling it was on.

 

Seeing messi and Suarez standing around shaking their heads....

 

This team is potentially one of the greatest ever. That makes 05 even more storied.

[_00_deathscar]

The Barca come back was the best night at Anfield we've had I reckon. But when we got the first goal, I knew that we were going to give Barca a run for their money. When we got the second, I had no doubt we would win. That's partly because of just how bloody brilliant this team is.

 

That Istanbul come back was a pretty awful team with a few good/world class players (37 points behind Chelsea...) against an absolutely star studded Milan lineup, who were three goals to the good and had ripped us apart in the first half, and had an absolutely amazing backline that would be hard to penetrate.

 

Another thing is that while we had made it that far, we looked like a deer in headlights. The bulk of that Milan side was extremely experienced and had just won the bloody thing two years ago.

Edited May 12, 2019 by _00_deathscar