Liverpool 1, Toulouse 0

By: Brian | August 15th, 2007

I didn’t get to see the whole match, so I’m going to put myself to sleep watching it later tonight. It was dreadfully boring from what I saw with the only highlight being Voronin’s nasty strike. Liverpool will probably get blamed for it’s unwatchability, but in truth it was the case of a clearly inferior squad, Toulouse FC, slowing down the game, playing everyone behind the ball, and being overtly and unnecessarily physical. We deserved to win this match just on those points alone and thankfully we did. We would have completely destroyed them had they tried to actually open it up and even then I doubt they would have had a chance at scoring. They were never a threat and were more annoying than anything.

I’ll definitely do a more in-depth review later, but as for now, Mascherano looked the Man of the Match, and Crouch looked pretty crappy. Shocking revelation there. I was quite surprised no one got injured as Toulouse’s aggressive play took quite a few of our players down including Gerrard, Babel, and Benayoun scares. I really thought Babel got his leg broke a la Cisse, but he played on, while Gerrard and Benayoun were taken off early, hopefully as precautionary measures for the upcoming Chelsea match.

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Category: Andriy Voronin, Champions League, Javier Mascherano, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Peter Crouch, Player News, Rafa Benitez, Ryan Babel, Steven Gerrard, Yossi Benayoun

Tags: Andriy Voronin, Champions League, Javier Mascherano, LFC, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Peter Crouch, Player News, Rafa Benitez, Ryan Babel, Steven Gerrard, Toulouse FC, Yossi Benayoun

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• Jason |  August 15th, 2007 at 11:17 am

  
  
  

  Anyone know why there was no sponsor on the shirt?

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• Bob |  August 15th, 2007 at 11:38 am

  
  
  

  I think I saw that Gerrard bruised his toe or something minor like that. The Voronin goal was class.

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• JohnDoe |  August 15th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

  
  
  

  Your not allowed to advertise alcohol or tobacco products in sporting events in France.

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• Sam |  August 15th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

  
  
  

  @ John Doe: Funny how that works out, because the same goes for gambling sites, and last year when Toulouse had 888.com on their shirts, they had to change it temporarily to “???.com”

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• Gavin Stead |  August 15th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

  
  
  

  yup, Gerrard looks to have done his leg / ankle when he got tackled, Rafas looking into it….

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• Inara |  August 15th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

  
  
  

  Toulouse might have tried to slow Liverpool down, but the mark of a great team is being able to overcome 10 men behind the ball, defensive tactics, etc, not being stopped by it (as Lyon often are). With such a huge gulf in quality, 1-0 is a poor result, to be honest, whereas it is good for Toulouse since no one expected them to win.

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