Impossible is not Marseillais…
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“Impossible n’est pas marseillais”
This is a saying people use talking about Marseille and we saw why tonight.
It’s too late for me to write anything but we did it. At Anfield. As I predicted, they underestimated us and thought the Tottenham game would be harder than this one. At the end of the day, respecting your opponents is something Rafael Benitez should learn. We had nothing to lose and our players made me proud. Here are few pictures of the whole trip and the video of Matthieu Valbuena’s goal.
More on the game later.
Thanks for all the support guys. I appreciate that.
Category: UEFA Champions League
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not sure that liverpool did not respect marseille, marseille played well and deserved to win against a liverpool side that played horribly, but highly doubtful that it was attributable to a lack of respect. Good win for marseille, put the “no respect” card back in your pocket.
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You know what I wrote on monday night after I saw the press conference with benitez and Hyppia? They were talking about the Tottenham game, the fact that Gerrard had just run over some kid with his bentley. But nothing about how we could win. I mean for a coach with benitez’s experience to treat a European game this casually shocked me alittle bit. Which is why I “pulled the “No respect” card” as you said it.
“Rafael Benitez seems more worried about his sunday game against Tottenham than the match we’ll deliver.”
I wrote this two days ago. Read my other posts. I usually like the spitit of the team and Stevie Gerrard is one of my favorite players but go back a little bit. I tried to be as balanced as I could.Posted from
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Referencing yourself does not make your argument any stronger. I am just not convinced that Liverpool was disrespectful in the buildup for Wednesday’s match.
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It seemed to me that Liverpool expected a win and honestly thought it would not only be an easy three points but also a way to beef up their goal differential. It’s not that they didn’t take Marseille seriously but judging from post-match reactions, you could tell Benitez & Co. had underrated Marseille.
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You know what makes me happy about this game? I LOVE the French style of play: The perfect passes, the long stretches of possession, the slow build-up, the use of the full field width, the reliance on knowing where your teammates are at all times rather than on hopeful long balls…
After the France-Scotland and Lyon-Rangers game, I was starting to doubt whether or not this style could work in the bigger world. Maybe the EPL style was the way to win. Would I have to resign myself to ugly football for the rest of my life?
Marseille gave me hope again.
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I love it…..wow, I can see how frustrated some of these Liverpool fans are. Hahahaha. Maybe Gerets can finally get all these talented athletes to work together. As you can see from today’s game the Marseille players are more physically talented than Liverpool. So much more speed and pace. If they could only play together more consistently they would go far in the Champions League. Great job.
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JB - Yes referencing myself does not make it stronger but it was just to show you that it was palapble that they were not taking us as seriously as they should have.
Inara - I really only started believing in our chances when I was the whole entire press conference. It was just a disgrace. I mean granted we’re not barcelona, but we’re not derby county. We managed to get into the CL for christ’s sake.
Everybody’s entitled to their opinion though. And I still believe one of the key of the match was that they genuinely thought we couldn’t resist their very stereotypical 442. Eric Gerets said all week that when he lost there with galatssaray he felt his players were too scared of the defending champs and realized way too late there was a way. Now when they come back to Marseille, they’ll be warned.
Oh and laurie, i believe the french style of play can be successfull at the international level with the NT because of the quality of player you can put at each position. BUt in clubs, I really don’t think you can get better than Marseille 89-94, Paris 96 and Lyon 02-05. Those teams just had everything. What’s sad is that Lyon will have to wait for a new cycle to get the European cup the other two teams have managed to win.
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yeah, i would say by the team rafa fielded, he didn’t expect much of a fight. show that card proudly sir!
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Thought any Marseilles fans may be interested in what one of your ex-players said about last night’s game. Cascarino says bet on Liverpool It’s quite amusing.
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Anyone who doesn’t beleive Liverpool was overconfident should turn their attention to the Liverpool pre match posting on their blog.
Quite funny to read in hindsight.
Well done Marseille
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You donkey, the game was fixed. The payback was too high for a Liverpool win and all the evidence was there. I don’t expect you to acknowledge that because it sounds like you have a hard time getting over yourself as it is.
Marseilles was only able to play the beautiful game because the powers that be allow them.
As Dave points out, an advisor on a betting site who used to play for Marseilles said to take Liverpool. It’s much more amusing on the inside, especially watching the puppeteers manipulate the strings.
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oh so that goal was fixed too? was it on some kind of wire rigging or did they use cgi effects?? gtfo with your conspiracy theories…
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Not sure why my first post didn’t come through.
But anyone who is in any doubt about whether or not Liverpool underestimated you guys, go and check out the liverpool blog and the preview to the game.
Reading it now is hilarious.
Well done.
Great result.
And the conspiracy theories are a joke.
Pierre, change your name to David Icke and watch out for the reptiles.
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About 70% of the money was on Liverpool, %20 on the draw, %10 on Marseille. The bookkeepers would have settled for the draw. All three elements of a fix were clear and present in the match. There’s just no way the industry would have put up with a Liverpool win. I know it’s hard for you Americans to see since you live in a ‘free country’ and all, but you’re own kind (Noam Chomsky) have been writing about creating psychological illusions for years. I don’t expect you to understand. I forgive you for your ignorance, just please never bet on anything. Thank you.
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Love the conspiracy theories.
Sometimes it’s just too painful to admit that your team sucked.
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United States
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