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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: Real Madrid v Liverpool – live! |
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<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/43132?ns=guardian&pageName=Football%3A+Real+Madrid+v+Liverpool+%E2%80%93+live%21&ch=Football&c3=guardian.co.uk&c4=Champions+League%2CReal+Madrid+%28Football+club%29%2CLiverpool+FC+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSport&c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CChampions+League%2CPremier+League&c6=Scott+Murray&c7=2009_02_25&c8=1174440&c9=Article+%28Content+type%29&c10=GU&c11=Football&c12=Champions+League&c13=&c14=&h2=GU%2FFootball%2FChampions+League&h2=GU%2FFootball%2FChampions+League&c13=&c10=Minute+by+minute+%28Tone%29&c25=&c26=&c27=true&c42=Football%2FChampions+League%2F%2F%7CArticle+%28Content+type%29%7C1174440%7CReal+Madrid+v+Liverpool+%E2%80%93+live%21%7C" width="1" height="1" /></div><p>Press refresh for the latest nerve-jangling updates, email <a href="mailto:scott.murray@guardian.co.uk">scott.murray@guardian.co.uk</a> with your thoughts, follow <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/feb/25/chelsea-juventus-champions-league-live">Chelsea v Juventus here</a> and follow all of tonight's games with our <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/matches">live scores</a> service</p><!-- Block 6 --><p><strong>7 min:</strong> Liverpool can't keep hold of the ball at all. Benayoun and Alonso are trying their best to prompt their team-mates, but there's not much movement going on around them, and the ball is quickly lost.</p><!-- Block 5 --><p><strong>4 min:</strong> Wow, that should have been the opener for the home side. Robben cuts inside from the right and slips a straight ball into the Liverpool area down the inside-right channel. Raul races ahead of a lumpen Skrtel and picks up the ball in space, just to the right of goal, eight yards out. His shot is weak and straight at Reina.</p><!-- Block 4 --><p><strong>2 min:</strong> Real stroke it around a while, then lose it. Torres scampers after a loose ball down the right, his toe catching Pepe's heel. Torres races clear and tries to chip home from a ludicrous angle and distance; the effort is way off but it makes no odds as the Liverpool striker is adjudged to have fouled the Real centre half. Which is a fair enough decision.</p><!-- Block 3 --><p><strong>There are more Spanish players starting this match for Liverpool than Real Madrid. Anyway, the Bernabeu is absolutely bouncing. The ref puts his whistle to his lips, gives it a shrill blast, and Liverpool get the ball rolling!</strong> Er... but for some reason the ref isn't happy with the kick off. Gah. So, here we go again. <strong>The ref puts his whistle to his lips, gives it a shrill blast, and Liverpool get the ball rolling!</strong> Within 20 seconds, the ball's been hoofed down the left wing and out of play. Can any team, anywhere, keep the ball for a while from kick off?</p><!-- Block 2 --><p><strong>28 IF.</strong> "I just read a piece on Lucas written by Marca," writes Rodrigo Moya. "It lauds him as the 'latest diamond' to come out of Brazil, and having 'impeccable' touch and that 'Paul McCartney is dead and was replaced by a clone'. Say it ain't so!" Ah, the comedy of juxtaposition. Speaking of which, here come the teams, and Fernando Torres is standing next to Dirk Kuyt.</p><!-- Block 1 --><p><strong>Is he staying? Is he resigning? Is he about to get sacked? Nobody knows.</strong> We'll tell you one thing, though: ever since getting totally radged off in 2007 with Tom Hicks and George Gillett's reluctance to get their wedge out, Rafael Benitez has been spoiling for a fight. And he <em>does not give a flying one</em> what anyone thinks. It's a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/nov/28/minutebyminute.sport">gloriously petulant attitude</a>, in some ways a small wonder he's yet to be pictured dancing along the touchline, flicking the Vs at the directors' box, grabbing his groin. Liverpool fans should be proud, though the flipside of this is the very real danger he'll be leaving them in the summer - if not sooner. This evening, for example, saw him bound into the Bernabeu looking very happy indeed, shaking hands with all and sundry.</p><p><strong>Working-class hero Jerzy Dudek is on the bench.</strong> Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Cannavaro, Heinze, Robben, Gago, Lassana Diarra, Marcelo, Higuain, Raul.<br />Subs: Dudek, Saviola, Sneijder, Guti, Metzelder, Miguel Torres, Van der Vaart.</p><p><strong>Steven Gerrard is on the bench. Alongside, Liverpool fans will thank Christ, the dropped Andrea Dossena. £7m!!!</strong> Reina, Arbeloa, Skrtel, Carragher, Aurelio, Benayoun, Alonso, Mascherano, Riera, Torres, Kuyt.<br />Subs: Cavalieri, Dossena, Hyypia, Gerrard, Babel, Lucas, Ngog.</p><p><strong>Referee:</strong> Roberto Rosetti (Italy)</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/championsleague">Champions League</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/realmadrid">Real Madrid</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/liverpool">Liverpool</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" />
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