Liverpool vs Chelsea Match preview

It's that time of the year when Red colides with Blue once again in what is destined to be a thrilling encounter! Added to this emotions are flying out over Rafa Bentiez and Fernando Torres return to merseyside as well as Daniel Sturridge playing against his former club, That's why we love the english premier league after all, for moments like this. Another curious twist comes in; When Benitez was making Liverpool the champions of Europe again in 2005, Brendan Rodgers was less than a year into his role as head of youth.... at Chelsea.

Liverpool come back from two disappointing Draws with West Ham united and Reading F.C and hoping for (ofcourse) 3pts. PFA POTY nominee Luis Suarez will be hoping to add to his 22 league goals and prove why he should win the award, and with 20yr old midfield Phillipe Coutinho proving to be a great buy, liverpool have just enough firepower to fend off the blues, if they take their chances that is. Chelsea will need to shut off the Gerrard - Suarez connection in order to cut liverpools game plan, because as we've seen before when Suarez is isolated liverpool don't play well.

Chelsea's squad will be boosted by the (possible) returns of Ashley Cole and Gary Cahill. Not much changes should be expected in the line up that beat Fulham except upfront where Demba Ba is expected to replace Torres due to Benitez' squad rotation policy. So Juan Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Ramirez and Lampard will fill the Chelsea midfield. Chelseas main threat will be Juan Mata (another POTY nominee) and Eden Hazard, Liverpool will have to make sure they shut them up in order to control the game.

As always, expect a truely entertaining game in merseyside tomorrow! One that might be the last Gerrard vs Lampard match we'l ever see, One you should feel guilty if you miss it.

Likely line ups

Liverpool(4-2-3-1):
----------Reina----------
Johnson----Carragher---Agger---Enrique
---Gerrard------Lucas----------
---Downing----Coutinho----Suarez----
--------Sturridge----------

Chelsea (Possible, 4-2-3-1):
--------------Cech--------------
Azpilicueta---Ivanovic----Luiz---Bertrand
-------Mikel----Ramires----------
-----Hazard-----Mata-------Oscar
------------Ba----------

Match Prediction:

Liverpool 3-2 Chelsea

Stat: In 69 league visits to Anfield, Chelsea have won just nine, while losing 46.

Other stats
- The Reds are four points and 19 goals better off than at this stage last season.
- Only Manchester City have kept more clean sheets this season than Liverpool's 13.
- Luis Suarez needs one goal to become the first Liverpool player to score 30 in a season in all competitions since Fernando Torres in 2007-08.
- Chelsea have five more points than at the same stage last season.
- They (Chelsea) ended a three-match losing streak in away fixtures by beating Fulham 3-0 in midweek.
- Frank Lampard made his 600th appearance for Chelsea in the midweek win over Fulham. He is two goals shy of Bobby Tambling's club record tally of 202.

4 of My Favourite football moments of 2012

2012 was really a big year in football as a lot of big things happened(No not liverpool winning the carling cup)that will be significant in the years to come.Here are 4 moments that were my favourite;

4.Chelsea lifting the Champions league for the 1st time
What made this interesting was how chelsea got to the finals,coming back from a near elimation to Napoli,beating Barcelona at Stamford Bridge despite only having 1 shot on target and then drawing 2-2 at the Nou Camp despite being a man down.That was just amazing!Call it luck or whatever you like but it was simply unbelievable.The final was no different as well,playing a rampant Bayern Munich who were desperate to win this years champions league after losing out 2years ago,and even though Chelsea spent the 1st 50minutes defending,they immediately woke up when Bayern Munich scored and suddenly it became a competition again.Chelsea became the 1st team from London to win the UEFA champions league..and it only took a mere £500m :-)

3.Lionel Messi breaking Gerd Mullers goal scoring record
I must say even though this didn't surprise me much,i mean it's Lionel Messi afterall.He pratically breaks records for fun,& now he has scored the most goals in a year beaing Mullers previous record of 89 goals in a year,Messi now has 92goals.That's history being made right there & i'm glad i was alive to see it.Normally i would say Ronaldo deserves this years Balon D'Or from some of the milestones he set(this year) but then i looked at Messi milestones and they made Ronaldo look like he shouldn't even be compared to Messi,so hands down..Messi is the best footballer in the world.

2.Man City's way of winning the premier league trophy
This was one of the best finales to a season i had ever seen!Man utd practically won the trophy for 2minutes before Sergio Aguero blasted in deep deep deep in stoppage time.All Fergie was waiting for was for the City game to end and they would be champions..but Aguero had other plans.Just as Manchini was biting his fingernails while looking at the clock,City who were 2goals behind from winning their 1st Trophy for 44yrs or something,decided to make us jump from our seats and score 2goals..in Stoppage time?we're talking 4mins of stoppage time and they did it.What a moment,what a game,What a season.

1.Zambia winning the African cup
To win a trophy deep in stopage time is something,to win a trophy in a country were your teammates died in some 18yrs ago?Now that's just magical,and to do it while being considered underdogs made it all the more special.No one expected the copper bullets to even make it past the group stages but they proved everyone wrong by beating big teams like Senegal,Ghana and eventually the tornument favourites Ivory Coast who had a superstar roster squad.Zambian overcame the odds and won the AFCON on penalties to ivory coast.It was a magical moment for every Zambian out there,especially Drogba missing a penalty?That type of thing doesn't happen often.

Ofcourse they were plenty more significant things thats occured in football this year,now i won't go into detail explaining them...because i'm lazy,so therefore i'l just list them out;

-Spain winning the Euros for a record 2times in a row
-Real Madrid winning La liga
-Hazards' hilarious transfer Saga
-RVP going to Manchester United(totally shocked me)
-Chelsea being the 1st ever defenders of the champions league to be dumped out in the group stages.
-Chelsea playing Europa League Football.
-Chelsea Losing 4-1 to Athletico madrid in the UEFA Super cup.
-Chelsea losing the club world cup.
-Chelsea.
-Usain Bolt(Not football related but i was just tempted to write his name)
-Stewart Downing grabbing his 1st Premier league goal & assist...and it only took him a year.
-The Van Persie and Wayne Rooney collabo,Van Rooney or something.
-Michu
-The Manchester Derby
-Juventus' unbeaten run(came to an end only recently)
-Ibrahimovics' 4goal haul against England,which ended with an audatious overhead kick from 35yards out.
-The world never ended :-)

The Epic Fails of Football:Eden Hazard Backheel Fail

Football is a sport in which many things happen, some good some bad, some stupid but most of all damn right entertaining.

We all have experienced those awesome moments when Ibrahimovic scores an overhead kick from 30yards out,or when Messi dribbles past the whole Madrid squad including his own teammates or when Torres...anyways i'm not here to talk about that,i'm here to talk about some epic fails in football, moments that get you wondering what the hell the lad thinking before doing that. Here is the first that i conjured up using my secret spell called...google.

Eden Hazard epic backheel fail.

What a way to introduce yourself in England. It was the Charity shield against Man City and the score was still 0-0, what was meant to be a charity game became suprisingly competitive and i'm not talking about El clasico competitive, more like Stewart Downing vs the goal post competitive. The moment when Hazard got hold of the ball everyone got up from their seats waiting to see what the mystro would do, calmly getting the ball and bursting through Citys defense he went before spotting Ashley Cole or who ever the hell that was running past behind him.Hazard at this point was running at the speed of my grandmas automobile before deciding he could do it, you know what i mean by It right? No not give city a goal kick by passing the ball to Fernando Torres, he decided to do something simpler...a cheeky back pass while moving faster than my heart rate when i was told Lionel Messi was human.

At this point you're "Oh my gosh this lad is awesome" well the idea was sort of..well no it wasn't good. Hazard attempted to go for the audatious backheel and what resulted was the number 17 falling flat on the ground, head first (A fall which was worth £32m..as in i would pay £32m to watch it again and again and...nah i would rather feed the children dying of starvation! Talk about a recession?). I burst into dynamic laughter. Like What the hell was he thinking?? It was soo funny that i can't quite remember what happened the rest of the match, something about Kompany 'head'ing into the game or whatever.

Hazard got up,embarrased and blushing while we were still laughing and choking.He looked to his teammates and gave them a thumbs up,maybe it was a thumbs up for not laughing as much as we did?I don't know.Well despite Chelsea losing that game Hazard finally did his back heel the following week....against Wigan,an achievement for him seeing that players rarely go for the backheel against Wigan.

Characteristics of certain football fans

These are a few ways in how you can tell a what team certain people support by the way of how they talk,some are facts and some vary.

Man utd
-Try to end almost every sentence with'GGMU'
-Rarely talk about their champions legue achievements but mostly about they're 20th league title which they believe is coming.
-Always find a way to prove in someway that they have the best squad in england.
-Dont like arguing with Barca fans
-Are very arogant.
-Most of them only spawn up when Man utd wins a game.

Chelsea
-Most stubborn fans you'l ever find
-Before an argument they'l ask you which team you support,usually if you say Madrid they'l find a way to end the argument,if you say barca they'l say messi & the refs,man utd they'l say gay & refs,liverpool they'l say history and Arsenal they'l say 7yrs
-Always try to prove that they love chelsea,KTBFFH?
-Always talk about Trophies,never about their youth squads,probably because they dont care,love?
-Only get behind their players when they're doing well,but when their form drops they  hate on them..
-Like to avoid the subject of Abramovich making them what they are today.
-Have the most plastic fans.

Liverpool
-Always make it known that they won trophies...in the past.
-One of the most delusional set of fans(e.g Liverpool wins 3 games in a row and next thing you'l here is that they might win the league)
-Always talk about istanbul.
-Usually avoid arguments about league trophies.
-Claim to be the best fans in the world.
-Claim they are the best english team when it comes to participating in the champions league,a competition they've failed to qualify for 3yrs now.

Arsenal
-Like talking about their invincible squd that won the league a while ago.
-Always say when the win a trophy they won't stop(something about Wenger building another invincible squad..with Gervinho in it).
-Claim Wenger was right to sell stars like Van Persie,Nasri,fabregas etc.
-Don't like talking about trophies but rather development of players.
-Most won't tell you what team they support until you ask.
-They 8-2 see one of their former players become successful.

Real Madrid
-Love to talk about how rich they are.
-Fail to accept that Messi is better than Ronaldo.
-Hate the subject of when they last won the champions league,they still have the highest number of trophies though.
-Most of them are former Arsenal fans.

Barcelona
-Always praise/single out Messi,i mean its not like there are 10 other people playing.
-Deny that refs have helped them a few times(wether knowingly or unknowingly).
-Again,most of them are Arsenal or former Arsenal fans.
-half of them don't know their club slogan and will probably google it after reading this.