Enrico Palazzo
I'm more than aware they ain't a Barca-Milan but they progressed to the last 16 entirely on merit. Anyone would think they were gifted their place in the CL from the start. The Independent write up on the game noted -
"Leverkusen had endured a spate of injuries and suspensions. Yet the coach, Klaus Augenthaler, still felt confident enough to leave out Andriy Voronin, who played a leading role in the rout of Real Madrid, Roma and Dynamo Kiev last autumn. Franca, the Brazilian who scored at Anfield, took his place, but it was his lone equivalent in Liverpool's ranks, Baros, who featured more prominently as the visitors exploited the space left by Leverkusen's eagerness to pile forward."
Not the cleverest of gameplans imo, it did cross my mind that BL were beaten before the game even kicked off as they never really had that opening rush I anticipated and never really sustained any lengthy pressure.
And here's Liverpool correspondent Fifield and his take.
Visiting the..... GN 4416Roo "Good things don't always come to an end." Oh my God I think I'm having a rap attack. Somebody get a doctor quick man she's having an attack. She...
"The enigma that is Liverpool continues to confound, though last night theirs was a glorious contribution to the Premiership's two-pronged buttault on Europe's elite. Horrendously inconsistent they may be domestically, but they have now seared into the quarter-finals of this competition for only the second time in 20 years. Talk of a Spanish-inspired renaissance is sweeping the continent."
hehehehe!!!!!!!! --
