Champs League Matchday 3 - Summary

Another sleep-less night last night, becoz of bola la apa lagi...

Started with Lokomotiv Moscow vs Espanyol at 1130pm. A Very very very very mengantuk game...a good cure for insomniac..zzzzzzz....

While waiting for the awaited 0230am kickoff, I tried a few games of the FM2006 demo. Looks very interesting...a whole lot more new things to explore, and the players movement seems logical as opposed to FM2005. The website says that the pc version is going to be officially released on 21/10/2005. But considering how advance malaysian gamers community is (read : pirates), looks like this weekend I am going game-hunting. To know more, go to their official website lah...screenshots pon ada

Then off to the game. Before that, as a community service, gave a few ppl wake-up calls. Suma responded promptly except jon....hahahahha...ang bukak kedai dulu ka sampai tak larat bangun?

Rafa did spring a few surprises, one of it is playing Momo Sissoko wide-right, and towards the end, he brought in Kewell and also other substitutions. At this point, I am quite lost on how actually they play. Bolo Zenden played wide-right, Warnock wide-left, Kewell main lone striker supported by Garcia (or was it the other way round). Whatever lah Rafa, as long as we win.

The team actually played quite well, with patches of very fluent passing game that I have not seen from this team for quite sometimes. Tapi 2nd half tu menggelabah jugak bila anderlecht started to press forward. Biasala kan, Liverpool, kalau tak bagi supporter dia heart attack, tak sah.To be fair to the team, they played quite well, and they could have been 3-4 up during half time. Anyway, thanks to Cisse's superb strike, another 3 points safe in the bag.

One thing that I think I should comment is how poor the Ref was. And I felt that he was actually being biased towards Liverpool! There were quite a few incidents that I think he totally messed up, and one that I remember was when Josemi clearly 'set-up a roadblock' on Wilhelmson if I am not mistaken, yet the freekick was given to us! Imagine the frustation of the Anderlecht players. I mean, come on la, this is the Champs League. Although I don't expect every ref to be like Collina, or although I am happy to get a few decisions to come our way, don't la be to obvious like last night. Bukan apa, I always believe that those kind of things will even-out themselves during the course of the competition, and imagine if such cases happens on us during quater ke, semi ke...tak ke naya

Anyway, congrats to the team, looking forward to this weekends game against Fulham.