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"The Worthington Cup Final Thread"

It's always difficult to predict the score of a cup final, certainly Liverpool have not had a great season by any means, their fans will be the first to tell you that.

However Man U vs Liverpool has always been one game where form goes out the window and 'pride' and 'hate' come into it. United on the other hand have had a mixed season of woeful results and some excellent victories.

Therefore it's all to play for.

When United played against Juve recently Keane played alongside Rio at the heart of United's defence and did it very well, now im not sure what the situation is with Wes Brown, if he returns im sure fergie will re-instate him at the back and Keano back in midfield, However there a few doubts over Silvestre, Scholes and Giggs, so its difficult to predict a line also I don't think he should leave out Phil Neville, he may not be a talented defender but he's great at tackling and has done a great job in midfield this season.

Possible line up:

Barthez

G.Neville
Rio
Keane/Brown
O'Shea

Beckham
Butt
P.Neville/Keane
Veron

Scholes/Solkjaer
Van Nistlerooy

Dangermen: Veron & RVN

The problem I see with this line up is the midfield, with Keane moving to the defence, the midfield is left exposed and with Liverpool having a fairly strong midfield in Gerrad, Murphy and Hamman, Nicky Butt, P.Neville and Veron will have to be on top of their game, I think the emphasis here is if Seba plays well or not, he has been brilliant at times this season and at other times he hasn't.

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Liverpool should field the same team that finished the game against Auxerre, which looked much more balanced than recent weeks. Micheal Owen
has been dire beyond belief this season, and I think he should have been replaced with Baros at times, but Houllier has kept his faith with him and he's always dangerous with his ability to run through defences. Im not sure what the goal keeping situation is at Anfield at the moment, if Dudek starts, then he'll want to make ammends for the game against United earlier this season and I think I heard something about Henchoz being a doubt for the game, which will be a blow to Liverpool.

Dudek/Kirkland

Caragher
Henchoz
Hyppia
Traore

Hamman
Gerrad
Murphy
Smicer

Heskey
Owen

Dangermen: Murphy & Owen

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Im certainly looking forward to the final even if it is the 'Worthless' a win will mean a trophy, some much needed confidence and taking the mick outta opposition supporters for a few weeks :D

My Prediction: 2-1 United.

Your views please.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> How many boots flew around the dressing room today, do you reckon?

I'd say one probably took a deflection off Beckham ;)

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:

> How many boots flew around the dressing room today, do you reckon?

Well I'd certainly send one in the direction of Silvestre, dosy plonker :)

Heh!

=D

Well, what a wonderful day today has been! Arsenal 8 points clear at the top of the Prem, and United losing the final 2-0!

A good performance from Liverpool for a change, and another hot-and-cold show from United - good in some spells, p!ss-poor in others.

Another deflected goal off Beckham in a cup game, which they lost 2-0. Isn't/wasn't there some stat along the lines of "United never lose a game in which they score first"?

There's a new one now - "United never win a cup game in which Beckham deflects the ball into his own net." :-)

Two cup games - two first goals deflected off Beckham - both lost 2-0. You couldn't write it any better!

How many boots flew around the dressing room today, do you reckon?

Bah, if there's any consolation, then it was Heskeys super swing at the ball, which led to him...yes you got it right...falling on the floor!

I didn't think Liverpool played that well, Gerrard's goal probably wouldn't have gone in without the deflection, and Owens goal came about from a mistake from Silvestre. Nuff said.

And Dudek kept Liverpool in it, git :)

Some great saves by Jerzy Dudek to help Liverpool won the Worthington Cup. I also like Gerrards goal, which Barthez could do nothing about because of the deflection.

Well Done Liverpool.

United played well and dominated the match but simply couldn't finish off our chances. Fairplay to Dudek - he had a great game and made up for the mistakes at the game at anfield earlier this season. A fortunate first goal from Gerrad settled the game plan for them, defend deep and counter attack. We didn't use any width today, I felt O'Shea should have replaced the obviously injured Silvestre and he would have given us that much needed running down the left wing getting down to the by line and crossing them in, but the idea was to go through the middle of the park ad it just didn't work. Anyway, weldone 'pool and we must pick ourselves up for the game on weds against Leeds and keep fighting on.

So much for the quadruple eh Mr Ferguson? Useless boot kicking idiot

HHAHAAHAHAH just read the BBC player ratings for the two teams.

They actually think Liverpool were the better team...

At least they gave Silvestre the crappiest rating, which is about the only thing they got right.

Two names spring immediately to mind:

1) Mikael Silvestre
2) Jerzy Dudek

One performed heroics, the other should have been subbed after about 3 minutes when it became clear he was playing crap.

I'll let you decide which was which.