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• Дата: 23 август 2005 г.
• Турнир: Шампионска лига (Трети предварителен кръг, реванш)
• Стадион: „Анфийлд“, Ливърпул (Англия)
• Посещаемост: 42 175 зрители
• Главен съдия: Волфганг Щарк (Германия)
• Аудио: Английско
На този паметен 23 август 2005 г. българският ЦСКА София постига една от най-великите победи в историята на родния футбол! „Армейците“, водени от Миодраг Йешич, побеждават действащия европейски шампион Ливърпул с 1:0 насред неговия митичен стадион „Анфийлд“.
Въпреки историческия триумф в мърсисайдския храм, ЦСКА отпада от турнира с общ резултат 2:3 (след загуба с 1:3 в първия мач в София), но остава със златни букви в историята като един от малкото тимове, тръгвали си с победа от „Анфийлд“ в Европа.
• Турнир: Шампионска лига (Трети предварителен кръг, реванш)
• Стадион: „Анфийлд“, Ливърпул (Англия)
• Посещаемост: 42 175 зрители
• Главен съдия: Волфганг Щарк (Германия)
• Аудио: Английско
На този паметен 23 август 2005 г. българският ЦСКА София постига една от най-великите победи в историята на родния футбол! „Армейците“, водени от Миодраг Йешич, побеждават действащия европейски шампион Ливърпул с 1:0 насред неговия митичен стадион „Анфийлд“.
Въпреки историческия триумф в мърсисайдския храм, ЦСКА отпада от турнира с общ резултат 2:3 (след загуба с 1:3 в първия мач в София), но остава със златни букви в историята като един от малкото тимове, тръгвали си с победа от „Анфийлд“ в Европа.
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00:00Sofia tonight. Remember the Reds, 3-1 up from the first leg.
00:03No Steven Gerrard injured, no Jamie Carragher either.
00:05He's rested. Morientes and Gibril Cisse start up front.
00:10As you saw, no Barros this evening.
00:12In fact, Liverpool, who beat Milan in May, have flogged Milan in August to Aston Villa today.
00:17But all the talk here is not about who's gone, but who's coming.
00:21It's a year since Michael Owen dressed in red.
00:25He hasn't had too many chances to wear a white shirt in the interim.
00:30So could a comeback to Liverpool be on the cards for Michael?
00:34Well, if you ask the fans here, definitely.
00:37But it's this man's view that counts.
00:39Raphael Benitez is with Gabriel Clarke.
00:42You've sold Milan Baros today.
00:43What are the chances of Michael Owen coming?
00:45Do you want Michael Owen here?
00:47I'm talking about the Champions League games or players?
00:51That's something that the fans are very keen on knowing about, though, as well, Rafa.
00:55Is Michael Owen the possibility of that?
00:57I know you have your transfer priorities as well.
00:58We have five strikers now, not six, and we need a centre-back and a right-winger.
01:04No other striker.
01:05Are you any closer to a centre-back and a right-winger?
01:08We have some options, but you never know, because when Liverpool is involved,
01:12then the price increases, and we don't know in this moment.
01:15But you've got some spending to do, and it might or it might not include Michael Owen.
01:19We have some money, but only for a centre-back and a right-winger.
01:34This is Anfield Liverpool, 90 minutes away from the group stage of the Champions League.
01:38The thoughts of Robbie Earle and Ali McCoy at half-time.
01:41But your commentators this evening, Andy Townsend and Peter Drury.
01:46Thank you, Matt.
01:47Good evening, all.
01:48And here we go with the last of half a dozen games, which, depending upon your perspective,
01:54it was either demeaning to demand of the European champions or generous to allow them.
02:00Uniquely for Liverpool, two European nights this week of separate types and moods across which to spread their resources.
02:10By the way, Andy Townsend, Liverpool are nearly there in Champions League terms,
02:15so tonight presumably is just a discipline, common sense night.
02:17Yeah, absolutely right, Peter.
02:19They'll be the sort of reminders that Rafa Benitez was giving to the players.
02:22Concentration, attitude, make sure it's right, have a good tempo about the game.
02:26And a nice opportunity for one or two of the fringe players, like Hosomi back in the frame tonight,
02:30and a couple of youngsters, left-back Stephen Mournick and Darren Potter on the right,
02:33to maybe just give the manager a gentle reminder of what they can do.
02:37We're seeing the Liverpool side go through the bottom of your screen there.
02:41We outlined the headlines from it.
02:43Obviously, the Barros issue is now dead, but the Owen issue is still at least a live rumour.
02:48Cece and Mournick are the strikers this evening, though.
02:51No, Gerrard, five changes from the game in Sofia, including the goalkeeper.
02:56CSKA, unsurprisingly, also have made a change in their goal.
03:00They have their first-choice centre-half, Iliev, back from suspension,
03:03and Jurikov in for the injured Yanev, their playmaker.
03:07Let's get the arithmetic of the evening ride, as I'm sure Rafa Benitez will certainly have done
03:12between dealing with those many rumours he has to cope with.
03:17CSKA, Sofia need three goals if they are to go through.
03:21It is 20 months since any visiting team scored three goals at Anfield.
03:25Last season, only three teams scored three goals against Liverpool anywhere.
03:30They were Aston at Highbury.
03:32And it was Zadi going in.
03:34It's hot out with by Hasemi.
03:35Filling in the centre-half receiver.
03:37They were Aston at Highbury.
03:38Chelsea in the League Cup final.
03:40And, of course, Milan in Istanbul, who ultimately lost the game anyway.
03:43That was a good early ball through to Zadi.
03:45Then I'm not sure exactly how much Hasemi knew about that.
03:48It seemed to hit him on the back of the head almost.
03:49But that's what they need to be careful of.
03:51That's that communication.
03:52I mean, the partnership, obviously, normally with Jamie Carragher and Sami Herpia, no problem at all.
03:57Another different player in there tonight, Horsum.
03:59He had a slightly unfamiliar position for him.
04:01So we need to be nice and sharp and lively and aware.
04:04Awareness will count a lot for him.
04:06He doesn't look like a centre-half.
04:07He's only five feet nine.
04:09Here there is Risa ready for Liverpool.
04:11It's Cissé in the middle and Morientes waiting.
04:13And it's the Moroccan Hidwa who got back with an important intervention.
04:18He was the man who made them tick in the first leg to the extent that they did.
04:22Covering midfield player and covering there against the incision of John Arnaresa.
04:29He's run a corner over for which young Darren Potter has come.
04:36With leeched Hoopje near the penalty spot.
04:39Cissé in the six-yard box.
04:41Potter has hit it onto the roof of the net.
04:43These are important nights for the likes of him.
04:45He is only 20 years old.
04:47Irish under-21 international.
04:50And with the talk of a right-sided midfield player, Andy,
04:52you know, he's very much on the agenda.
04:54Absolutely.
04:54It's a good opportunity for him.
04:55He just needs to hopefully improve his delivery in light.
04:58We just saw there that corner.
04:59That's a bit of a wasted situation.
05:00But when he gets the ball, look confident.
05:02Be prepared to get out the full-back when he can.
05:04Try and make something happen.
05:06Do his job defensively.
05:07Just be nice and sensible in the opening stages of the game.
05:10Dick Warnock here at left-back.
05:11Dick Warnock is one who's got a lot of early-season praise from his manager.
05:15And almost falls into a new category now.
05:17He's looking comfortable in the first 11.
05:20He did have outings in the Champions League last year.
05:22And blew hot and cold.
05:24Had good nights.
05:25And occasional shaky one.
05:28It's a decent ball knock forward there, though, Peter Fromming.
05:31I've been impressed with him, Stephen Warnock, when I've seen him playing.
05:34Nice and cool and composed on the ball.
05:36Not really seen anybody get at him.
05:37Not being tested that much defensively.
05:39Certainly in possession, as you see there, with the outside of the boot, very comfortable.
05:43Finnin for Potter.
05:44It's closed down by the Brazilian left-for-back, Thiago Silva.
05:49Finnin again.
05:50A little away from the first leg goal scorer for CSKA, Velik Sardimitrov.
05:55Forward by Khosimi.
05:56Potter was onside.
05:57The appearance was a hesitant one from Guy.
06:03And here is Stevie Finnin.
06:06And in at Cissé.
06:07Away by Ilyeh.
06:08Swept up by Harman.
06:10And then lashed away by Radislav Zabavnik.
06:14To the back-in.
06:15They did it in the centre-half in the first game.
06:17But moved to his regular position of right-back tonight.
06:20Gargarov.
06:23Zardim.
06:28By Todorov.
06:29Taken up by Hidwa.
06:33Moving away to Risa.
06:34Tackle from Zabavnik.
06:36A man snaps in.
06:37But it came again to Hidwa.
06:38Who's hit it early for Zardy.
06:40And Khosimi is covered again really well.
06:42He's reading it nicely.
06:43Yeah.
06:43And that's a lot better defending.
06:44He watched that one all the way.
06:45Tracked the run of Zardy and dealt with it.
06:55They've got to get the balance right tonight, Sophia, Peter.
06:58Obviously, they've got to be aggressive the way they commit people forward.
07:00But the first goal in this game tonight is absolutely crucial.
07:03From a Liverpool perspective, if they get it, they're pretty much home runs right.
07:07Obviously, Sophia will be thinking if they can nick the first goal, then they can make a real fist of
07:11it.
07:18A new man in goal for CSKA tonight, as I was mentioning, Dejan Maksic.
07:23For Serbia and Montenegro.
07:26Hamaruk, the Moldovan who kept goal in the first leg, had a pretty unfortunate evening.
07:31Since then, to his further detriment, he's fallen out with the boss.
07:35And so, the glamour trip to Liverpool took place without him on the play.
07:45Good one.
07:47It's actually more for Gagorov.
07:50It's out of harm's way by Warnock.
07:54There's a certain solidity about Liverpool when Harman is sitting in front of their back four.
07:59The unsung hero of the Champions League final.
08:02A half-time substitute who did for Kaká.
08:05Here's Potter.
08:08And into Todorov.
08:10Dimitrov let it roll and Risa has rolled it through here for Cissé.
08:13Who's onside, Gibral Cissé.
08:15And Maksic has done terrifically well to come out and smell that.
08:18Good evening right as well.
08:19Well, Gibral Cissé just couldn't quite think it over the goalkeeper.
08:23Sloppy play in the middle of the park from Sofia.
08:26Allows Risa to play that first time.
08:27Exactly what Cissé wants.
08:28If A's the tackle, just needed to try and think that over the goalkeeper.
08:32And we'll credit him, he does well in the end to smother it.
08:35No right wing for Gibral Cissé tonight.
08:37Very much inside left.
08:41It's as much a topic of conversation for Liverpool fans as anyone else in the starting XI tonight.
08:47It's been sharp and lively, Peter, when he's played this season.
08:48And Gibral Cissé, he couldn't have done a lot more when he's had the nod.
08:51I think he is going to be a little bit hit and miss.
08:54A little bit up and down at times.
08:55He's that sort of player.
08:55But when he's on his game, he's a real threat and a real nuisance.
09:02Brice.
09:03Brice.
09:04Only away from Barberoff, the visiting captain.
09:08With a hefty clearance.
09:09Ilyeh away from Cissé.
09:10Morientes sharply onto it.
09:12Cissé available to him.
09:14Gibral Cissé again for Liverpool.
09:17Never the right shape about the shot.
09:19He wasn't really aware either of Morientes and made a cute little run there just across the front of him.
09:26Certainly Cissé in the earlier chance there running onto that ball from Risa.
09:29There he can just maybe dink that over him rather than just trying to guide it past him.
09:33It's good movement.
09:34That is when he's at his best.
09:35Not so much when he's trying to link up with other players.
09:37When he runs off the back of the centre-half.
09:39He is a danger man.
09:40Sani won his header but then Hupia won his.
09:44Sissoko.
09:47Potter.
09:48Cissé wants it early.
09:49Cissé has it early.
09:50Not just too snappily.
09:52Unlucky.
09:53The right idea from Potter and he had to hit it with a bit of pace on it for it
09:56to get there.
10:02It's important time for Gibral Cissé.
10:05Not just in club terms but internationally as well.
10:07He got another cap for France last week as a very late substitute for Thierry Henry.
10:13Against the Ivory Coast in the Montpellier.
10:16He just might find a place in the French 23 for next summer in Germany.
10:21Talking of which here is Hamann.
10:25Warnock.
10:27Risa.
10:29Nice left-sided exchange.
10:31Then Risa hitting one deep for Potter.
10:32And Potter nodding it down for Morientes.
10:35It's well read by Guy emerging from centre-half.
10:39And it breaks off Dimitrov for Rosati.
10:41It's an excellent tackle from Hosomi who's equipped himself really well at centre-back.
10:47Tell you what, that was unlucky, Peter.
10:48The referee had a good view of that.
10:50He didn't see it as handball.
10:51It was a lovely, sweet move from Liverpool.
10:53Zabavnik, Gargarov, Dimitrov for Stamble.
10:58Helped on his way by Didi Hamann who will communicate well with the officials tonight.
11:04They all come from Germany.
11:06Wolfgang Stark is the referee.
11:09Young man, still only 35.
11:10He has been on this ground before.
11:12Last time we visited, Michael Owens scored the winning goal.
11:15In UEFA Cup tie against Vitas Arnhem, a year or two back.
11:24Jordan Yurukov with CSKA's free kick.
11:28Carson with a safe enough take.
11:30Chance of 20 at the beginning of next week, Scott Carson.
11:37A chance against Kaunas in the last round in similar circumstances.
11:42Cissé.
11:44Now Morientes.
11:49Two centre-halves for Sevilla that haven't got to grips with Cissé at all in this opening 10-minute spell.
11:54I mean, he's just peeling off of one of them every time.
11:56There he is again there, finding space.
11:57This time Morientes.
11:59Deciding to have a pop himself.
12:00Nothing wrong with that.
12:03But already they're looking good, the two Liverpool strikers.
12:07There is an ongoing sense in this city of a question being eternally asked.
12:11When will Morientes actually explode?
12:14He seems perpetually to be on the edge of it.
12:16Yeah, he does, Peter.
12:17You're right.
12:18It was interesting here, Rafa Benitez talking before the game about the Michael Owen scenario.
12:22I think if he does spend the money on that right-sided midfielder on a centre-half,
12:26then maybe they'll have to accept the fact that Michael Owen might not come.
12:29If he doesn't go and buy people in those positions,
12:31then there may be questions asked if Cissé and Morientes don't come up with the goals.
12:35Played the high first half of Spain's international against Uruguay last week.
12:42It's going to be a busy season for all of these Liverpool players.
12:46Benitez has to balance his squad properly.
13:01Potter.
13:03Sissoko.
13:11Possibly, who played all six games in the group stages last year before picking up his knee injury in the
13:16middle of December.
13:17Rupiah's gone early for Cissé again.
13:20I'm too convinced.
13:21Cintiago Silva helped him out.
13:26Zadi.
13:27Hidwar.
13:29Todorov.
13:30A smash and tackle from Sissoko.
13:33But Todorov has it back.
13:35Hidwar.
13:39Shabavnik from Slovakia.
13:41Strangely with Gargarov.
13:45Squeaking away from Risa and going over Risa.
13:47One being told to get up.
13:49I'll tell you what, I think it was unlucky, Peter.
13:51It's a very useful play there from Sofia.
13:54Kept it.
13:55Prode eventually got him behind.
13:56I think it was unlucky not to get the free kick.
13:58Gargarov.
13:59Todorov.
14:00Hidwar.
14:02Holding for Gargarov away from Hupiah.
14:04You can see here that, as they proved in the first leg,
14:08Sofia and nobody's mugs,
14:09they look a shade vulnerable at the back,
14:11but when they have the football, they use it nicely.
14:13Certainly do.
14:15Risa.
14:18Swung adventurously towards Potter, who will be there first.
14:24Pullback aimed at Morientes.
14:26Seed off by Todorov.
14:32I think Hosomi recognising straight away that if Zardy's allowed to get the ball and turn and run at him,
14:37it might give him a problem or two.
14:38Every time he receives the ball, the centre forward,
14:40Hosomi is right up his back, so I deal him with it.
14:45Sissoko.
14:47Hamman.
14:49Sissé.
14:50Morientes.
14:52Important touch from McGuire,
14:54but a touch of Morientes' shin as well as the football.
15:00Liverpool have a free kick,
15:01which under normal circumstances would invite
15:03Stevie Gerrard into the piece.
15:05In his absence, there'll be a fresher cue.
15:08It wasn't a very clever challenge.
15:09No, it certainly wasn't.
15:10He may have had a slight advantage if the referee would allow it to go to just
15:13just another few seconds.
15:15Risa on the left-hand side here,
15:16but nonetheless,
15:17good shooting position for someone like Hamman
15:19or Risa himself.
15:20They can both ping a useful ball.
15:27So, Hamman over the ball.
15:29Spinning up from full-back.
15:31Risa's left boot would seem to suit the
15:34precise geography of the situation.
15:44Risa will hit it,
15:45purely enough,
15:46but into the last brick of the wall.
15:49Pupia.
15:51Warnock.
15:54Well, Mori enters.
15:56Potter was
15:57looking to try and keep it in,
15:58but failed so to do.
16:05Liverpool have never lost a two-legged European tie
16:08in which they won the first leg away from home.
16:12But English football fans won't be too much reminding
16:15that such an accident did befall Newcastle
16:17at this stage of this competition a couple of years ago.
16:20Alberto Solano had given them a 1-0 win in Belgrade.
16:23But Partizan did the business at St James'.
16:25Accidents can happen,
16:27and Gargarov is intent that one might happen here.
16:30And he's pulled it back towards Zardy,
16:32and Sissoko's had to tidy up.
16:35Here's Zabavnik.
16:37And Sissoko's gone in again
16:39and taken as much player as ball.
16:43The long legs there.
16:45I think initially he may have just caught Zabavnik.
16:48You can see he's just evaded Warnock there.
16:51You think that Sissoko's going to get,
16:53just gets a little bit on it,
16:54and then sort of just clips the player,
16:55ends up getting the ball.
16:57I think that's a decent decision from the referee.
17:03Yurukov.
17:04Oh, terrific goal!
17:07That is a first-rate strike from Valentin Iliev.
17:12Accidents do happen.
17:15And Liverpool have a minor problem here.
17:17They've slept in, Peter, there.
17:19I mean, they're probably expecting Iliev to go into the box
17:21to get on the end of a cross.
17:23A lot of red shirts back there.
17:25Scott Carson looks on pretty bemused by it all.
17:27There's no way anyone should be able to walk on the end of a ball like that.
17:30It's a great finish.
17:31That is a really good controlled finish.
17:34But it's far too easy.
17:36Far, far too easy.
17:37And the goalkeeper can do nothing about it.
17:40Very, very good finish.
17:42He could have lashed that anywhere.
17:43He's controlled that.
17:44And he has bent that perfectly in the corner.
17:46Now we do have a game on our hands.
17:47Well, we do have a game that really Liverpool supporters would rather not have had.
17:52It's all very well to inject a degree of excitement into the occasion.
17:56But they would have hoped to have lived tonight in the comfort zone.
17:59No longer is it comfortable.
18:01A reminder that Sofia do need three goals.
18:04Two wouldn't be enough because of Liverpool having got three away from home.
18:09And so, after a quarter of an hour, leave 75 minutes to get two more.
18:16Possibly hit it long.
18:18Lisa Rose.
18:21Liverpool haven't started the game badly, but it's not as if they've been really poor.
18:24They've had opportunities themselves.
18:26But we've got a couple of reminders that the opposition here tonight, they can play a bit given the opportunity.
18:32Over topper now, Ilyeh back in his natural habitat within touch of the goalkeeper.
18:38Send it back and what an uplifting moment for Mir Draghiacic, the coach who seemed,
18:42I must say when I met him last night, rather resigned to defeat.
18:45He said miracles happen, but...
18:47Not every day.
18:48He was involved himself in one of the great European comebacks 21 years ago, which some
18:56English football fans will remember.
18:57He was a Partizan Belgrade player when they lost 6-2 to QPR.
19:01And the game played at Highbury, because QPR weren't allowed on their plastic pitch, and then Partizan took them back
19:07to Belgrade and beat QPR 4-0.
19:09Only four times has a four-goal deficit been overturned in Europe, and he scored the third goal of the
19:16second leg, the fifth of six.
19:19So perhaps he can draw on that.
19:20So perhaps he can draw on that.
19:20Here is Sissoko.
19:26What a challenge with Sissoko, the Moroccan Pidua has pulled up lame.
19:33There was a doubt about his fitness going into the game.
19:37The way the way he's feeling his lip there suggests that actually it's contact with his face.
19:46What a strike it was for me.
19:47It was a good goal, Peter.
19:49It was.
19:50It's a centre-half.
19:50You'd have expected him to go up there, but this one's...
19:52This is actually the speed it happened.
19:54Real-time replay.
19:55Look, bang.
19:56You let people drift into the penalty area without getting to them, without shutting it down.
20:00There's the reaction from the bench.
20:01They know that's a massive, massive goal for him this evening.
20:04That sloppy defensive play from Liverpool.
20:08He does have an excellent goal-scoring record for a centre-half, Valentin Iliev.
20:13Got seven goals in Bulgarian domestic football last year.
20:17He was suspended for the first leg, having picked up bookings against Tirana in the second round of qualifying.
20:24Pidua here picked up an injury for Morocco, playing a friendly against Togo in Rouen, in the north of France
20:30last week,
20:30and was a doubt to start this game.
20:32He's almost certainly not going to finish it.
20:36So, I think he's going to be okay to go on, at least in the short term.
20:45Now you're looking at your experienced players, Pidua.
20:47You're looking at your Hermans, your Risas, Sammy Herpia in particular.
20:51Morientes and Cisse, their top players, experienced players.
20:55And they've got to get hold of this situation.
20:57Start dominating the game.
20:58You can get that ball back.
21:00Moving it around nice and sharp, nice and crisp, like they did in the opening, five or ten minutes.
21:04Not let this opposition get too confident, because they are of that sort of nature, Bulgarian teams.
21:10They get confident, they get up for it, they're in trouble.
21:21Easy with hindsight, but when there are little mishaps like that, I guess, even as the most assured manager as
21:27Benitez is entitled to be,
21:29you sort of wonder whether you wish you had played the first XI to begin with.
21:33Well, that's the gamble you take.
21:38You know he's not one to panic.
21:41Bulgarov.
21:41He won't look flustered, Pidua, at all, but he'll be very concerned at the minute.
21:51In for Todorov, and Zardy's onside here, and Carson's done well, and it came out to Todorov, who might really
21:57have panicked the clock.
21:59He really should have panicked the clock.
22:01Steven Warnock's a lucky boy there, because I think he's the man that's played them onside.
22:05It's a great ball, played through the middle.
22:08Look, you can see the hand going from Hosomi, he thinks they should be offside.
22:12The follow-up's unlucky, it's only just drifted over the top.
22:16Carson does well to come out.
22:19And another day that could easily have found its way into the back of the net.
22:22An evening that was meant to represent a rather sleepy cruise into the Champions League group stages.
22:27And this has turned into a somewhat choppy ride.
22:39Finan's gone long.
22:40Nearly ever way.
22:42Todorov.
22:46Down by Dimitrov.
22:48Along by Thiago Silva.
22:51And by Hosomi.
23:11Wallach.
23:14Hamai.
23:15Sissoko.
23:17Good crisp ball for Potter.
23:20He's attempted to nick in Finan.
23:23Hidwa going back.
23:32Todorov ran into Morientes.
23:35Sissoko.
23:39Potter hammer.
23:45Sissoko.
23:45Sissoko's spreading it.
23:46Zababnik for touch.
23:57Who, having been settled from the start, are suddenly in need of a settling goal.
24:04And then Zadi to run at Hosomi.
24:08To play it in for Dimitrov.
24:09And now Yurukov.
24:11Much too much on it for Gargarov.
24:17It could so easily be worse.
24:19Certainly could.
24:19Todorov very unlucky.
24:20Great little ball he threw to.
24:21Watch at the bottom of the picture.
24:22Steven Molnock.
24:23He's just ball watching a little bit.
24:25Zadi is definitely onside.
24:26And Steve Binner at the top of the picture.
24:27In all fairness.
24:28Playing him on as well.
24:30I'll tell you what, Todorov on another day.
24:31Maybe if he'd have even took a touch.
24:33He could have hit that with a little bit more pace.
24:36Maybe he ought to give a word as well to Carson.
24:39Who, although he was lucky, second time around, was very quickly off his line.
24:42He did very well, Pete.
24:48Potter.
24:50Against Thiago Silva and his own Liverpool Accord that they can really do with here.
25:04appear to join the Morrientes by the penalty spots.
25:07Ahsoko in the six-yard box.
25:10Cece.
25:11Six yards from goal.
25:13That has gone deep.
25:35Liverpool fans may just be casting a cautious section of their mind back to 12 months less a day.
25:41when Liverpool brought the two-goal lead into the Anfield leg of their qualifier against Graz AK.
25:48And that night they weren't so very far away from blowing it.
25:51They lost on the evening.
25:52And there were panicky moments towards the end of the game.
25:57And it is happening again.
25:59Green kick against Zabavnik.
26:06They're important in situations like this now, Petey.
26:08Concentrate on that delivery.
26:11Deliver that in the right areas.
26:13If you're going to have this shot, obviously you get your head down.
26:15You make sure you hit the target.
26:16Give that man something to handle.
26:18Everybody else alive in case he spills it.
26:20Ready for the following.
26:21But if you are putting it into the six-yard box,
26:23give the likes of Hupia, etc.
26:26Give him a chance to attack it.
26:33A man for Cissé.
26:35That's a very good gather by the keeper.
26:37Because there was plenty on that.
26:39Certainly was.
26:39That was a hell of a strike from Cissé.
26:42He really hit that right out of the middle.
26:44Right off the laces.
26:45The goalkeeper does very, very well, Matisse,
26:47to gather that and hang on to it.
27:04He had every last half ounce of his boot leather on this, Gibral Cissé.
27:08This is what the keeper saw.
27:09Absolutely.
27:10He does well as well, you can see.
27:11On his toes, nice and lively.
27:13Almost anticipating that's going to go to his right
27:15and hangs on to that very well.
27:20Just goes to show them sort of angles.
27:22It does come out of you pretty rapid, Peter.
27:33Cissé goes silver.
27:35By Haman.
27:38Cissé goes putting himself about.
27:39He's a long-legged, angular midfield player
27:43who likes to tackle.
27:44He wants to be a nuisance.
27:51Now this is his sixth game in Liverpool Red.
27:54He might easily have joined Everton.
27:57He would probably dovetail better
27:59with the likes of Alonso and Gerrard.
28:00In fairness to him, Peter.
28:01Cissé, I mean, he's a ball winner.
28:04He uses them long legs to get up and down the field.
28:05Break things up, as you say.
28:07Then he needs someone to give it to.
28:09Alonso normally that sort of man.
28:18There's a ball winner.
28:21There's a ball winner.
28:27There's a ball winner.
28:28There's a ball winner.
28:28Lama.
28:30On Morientes.
28:32Out by Guy.
28:33In again for Fernando Morientes.
28:36And slipped through for Cissé.
28:37Well read by Ilyev Agolstorri.
28:43The score of the goal that has stirred Sofía and rather shaken Liverpool and here is Dimitrov.
28:49And the outlet is Zadi.
28:52He had a cover at the near post.
28:54Terrific football again, really is not a good delivery from Zadi.
28:58He owed a better cross to his onrushing team mates there, they had plenty of black shirts in that box.
29:03Liverpool have gone off the boil and they need to sharpen up, liven up all round, pick the tempo up
29:07a bit.
29:15The man who has made the difference, 25-year-old Valentin Ilyev.
29:38The cross spooned high onto the head of Guy.
29:43Finnem.
29:44Potter.
29:45Finnem, nice exchange there.
29:47And Finnem's cross for Morientes.
29:49Alice Forrest, Riesa.
29:52Excellent sliding tackle from Ilyev.
29:54It's unlucky.
29:55You would love to have got that on the holly, John Anorisa.
29:57Jacks couldn't quite get it.
29:58They did well to actually control it and give himself any sort of opportunity.
30:02That's good play from Steve Finnem down the right-hand side.
30:04Excellent little ball flipped in.
30:29And that does surprise me, because if ever there's one person you want on that field to have a little
30:34bit of space from that sort of angle, how many times have you got it?
30:36We've seen John Anorisa fire them in from right.
30:38That's all the range.
30:38That's all the distance.
30:39He did the hard part.
30:41Skipping past the defender.
30:43I just think then he's going to pull the trigger.
30:45There's no better left foot around to deal with it in this sort of situation, get it out of your
30:50feet and hit it.
30:51Instead of that, he's trying to find someone who's not really there.
30:54That's a good point.
30:56Just think back to that goal he scored in the first minute of the League Cup final.
31:00Slightly different.
31:01But then he was hitting an instinctive volley, but it was the same sort of angle, same sort of range.
31:06And he didn't think twice.
31:13Fitting over the top.
31:14Cissé onside.
31:16And it's a bad nick across.
31:18Lucky.
31:19Just that he could have stretched a wee bit more Cissé because Zabavnik had played him onside.
31:24He would have been in.
31:26Who played for Slovakia in an international against England at the Riverside Middlesbrough a year or two back.
31:32Came in which Michael Owen scored a couple of goals.
31:37And in charge of which, by the way, was tonight's referee.
31:40Here is Dimitrov.
31:45Worked it with Yurikov.
31:46And in for Zardy.
31:48And now Yurikov.
31:49With Gargarov waiting.
31:51Aimed into Dimitrov and out by Herpia.
31:53But Liverpool are stretched more than once.
31:55Three photos.
31:56Downside.
31:59This is not how it was meant to be.
32:03Getting in behind them.
32:04Particularly down the flanks.
32:05The two fullback areas.
32:06Far too easy.
32:08Getting into real dangerous areas here.
32:10With a little bit more care on the cross.
32:12Liverpool could well be two down here, Peter.
32:15Sissoko.
32:18Hamman.
32:20Cissar.
32:23Potter.
32:25They've got Stubbs on it.
32:29Sissoko.
32:34Dimitrov.
32:37Liverpool really could do with a settling goal of their own here.
32:40Just to reset the equation.
32:41And make CSKA start from scratch again.
32:48Sapavnik.
32:50Inside of Warnock.
32:52But...
32:52Totoro have halted his run.
32:59Yep, they're confident now.
33:00They've got real spring in their step.
33:01When they're in possession of the ball.
33:02And they're going forward.
33:03They look useful.
33:05They really do.
33:17zabislod.
33:18Hอi Saval.
33:20Sissoko.
33:23Potter.
33:24Arena is ran over in Sissoko who didn't read it.
33:28Now comes Todorov.
33:29Dimitrov.
33:30Gai.
33:32Gargorov.
33:35Lifted on towards Zade.
33:37Hotspur's.
33:38our position
33:46as well to keep it from Garbarov
33:50now Warnock
33:52and now Cissé
33:55and it was too bright for Ilyev then
33:58the referee wasn't having it
33:59but Ilyev was obstructing
34:02yeah for me Peter
34:03he's nutmegged the centre half there
34:06perfectly and then he's trying it on
34:07and then it was just body checked
34:15at the moment Cissé said earlier on
34:18he can be a bit unpredictable
34:19but he's the only one at the moment
34:20who really looks like he's going to give Liverpool
34:22some sort of spark
34:37Warnock
34:38Morientes
34:40Cissé
34:41Morientes
34:47just wondered if for a split second Fernando Morientes
34:50just pondered maybe just hitting that on the volley
34:53and then he took it on his chest
34:54just got crowded out
34:56Sissoko
34:58Sissoko
35:00spooned up for Cissé
35:03Gibral Sissé
35:04bounce back to Sissoko
35:17Gerrard
35:18unfit tonight
35:19probably unfit
35:20on Friday
35:21possibly unfit for England against Wales
35:26after all the goals he got for Rafa Benitez
35:28in the early part of Champions League qualifying
35:31a shame for the boss
35:32that he can't turn round
35:33and find him on the bench
35:44free kick against Didi Harman
35:46to whom this is only a third
35:48start of this season
35:51his foot was high
35:52remember he broke a bone in his foot
35:54during the course of the Champions League final
35:56actually still scored his penalty
36:12just wonder if it stays like this at half-time
36:13when I spoke about Benitez
36:15he's not one to panic
36:16but we know that he can make brave substitutions
36:18if you think back to Istanbul
36:20I just think this might be one of those nights
36:21where the whole ground needs a little bit of a lift at the moment
36:23it's very quiet in here
36:25Gargarov
36:35long from Karsten
36:36awkward for Guy
36:37but it came down for Sisse
36:40Ilya calls on Maxic to come and help him out
37:11and again
37:14Hidwa
37:17Thiago Silva
37:19Yurikov
37:29Dimitrov spinning and allowed to run
37:31with Zari ahead of him and Gargarov ahead of him
37:33and Yurikov wide here
37:39feeling stuck, importantly
37:43can't quite get to grips with Dimitrov at the moment
37:45the number 8, the Safiris
37:48very elusive, one minute he's in front of the midfield players
37:50then he's just in that little hole behind them
37:52difficult to get hold of
37:53always on the move, he's playing well
38:02Thiago Silva
38:20Madlik of Slovakia
38:24Bulgaria
38:26guy of Senegal
38:31Yurikov
38:39Jamie Carragher has just been warming up
38:41it looks an odd
38:42Liverpool back 4 without him
38:44he's possibly going to be a prize winner in Monte Carlo
38:46back end of the week
38:48considered one of the top centre-halves of last year's Champions League
38:51and there is a bench full
38:53of players who would ordinarily
38:55have started in the Liverpool 11
39:08Sissoko
39:10maybe worth a crack
39:11Momo Sissoko
39:13dragged it
39:14unlucky
39:15never really hit it
39:17not his strongest side
39:18better on his right foot
39:20Otto comes inside and just drops it off to Sissoko
39:22he knows what he wants to do
39:23but he just doesn't really hit it
39:25scuffs it a wee bit
39:25drags it wide
39:26and he's going to be a good one
39:36and he's going to be a good one
39:39and he's going to be a good one
39:43and he's going to be a good one
39:43and he's going to be a good one
39:45and he's going to be a good one
39:45and he's going to be a good one
39:46and he's going to be a good one
39:47and he's going to be a good one
39:48and he's going to be a good one
39:49and he's going to be a good one
39:50and he's going to be a good one
39:52and he's going to be a good one
39:54and he's going to be a good one
39:58the feeling went long
40:01done by Guy
40:03he'd well with the pirouette, he ran into Potter
40:05and that was clattered by Todorov
40:08so you're witnessing merely the opening exchanges here
40:11of a top-notch European football week on ITV
40:13tomorrow night, ITV 2
40:15Everton attempt to turn around a 2-1 deficit away to Villarreal
40:19I will recommend that to you, the first game was a belting watch
40:22and on Friday night, back here on ITV 1
40:25Liverpool contesting the first European trophy of the season
40:28against UEFA Cup holders CSKA Moscow
40:31the Super Cup from Monte Carlo, ITV 1
40:34on Friday night
40:35before which on Thursday you'll have been to our website
40:38itv.co.uk
40:40slash football to follow the Champions League group stage draw
40:44with or without Liverpool, Manchester United and or Everton
40:47and certainly of course with Arsenal and Chelsea
40:54she says flip
41:22Hossumi hit it long, Risa
41:24Warnock
41:26Morientes
41:27Guy did well
41:28it's a great ball
41:30that is exactly what any striker wants, that sort of delivery to go and attack
41:33it's well defended
41:36Risa
41:38away from Zabavnik
41:41Tahidua
41:41it's got that
41:44and it's delivered long by Iliev
41:52Stephen Warnock responsible for this delivery
41:54which brought out the best in the centre-half guy
41:57a good early delivery
41:58that's the key
41:58as soon as he touched it out of his feet
42:00Morientes can recognise that it's on its way in
42:02it's going to be delivered
42:08Morientes
42:10oh, oh, he wanted to slip it for Risa
42:13and then for later on
42:14the pick's ear of the pass
42:15and that surprises me
42:16because Morientes is so good at that
42:18always plays with his head up
42:20you'd have expected him there to just slip that
42:22between the centre-half and the full-back
42:23and Risa would have been in on the goals
42:24good opportunity
42:25Mr
42:31Hidua
42:38Hidua
42:40Yurikov
42:41Finnem
42:42watched it away
42:47Hosemi
42:48who started with assurance
42:50it's centre-half
42:50but doesn't want to be teasing Zadi
42:52with the things looking a shade twitchier
42:54than they were at 8 o'clock
43:10there were 50 fans officially
43:13who travelled from Sofia for this game
43:15in addition to which though
43:17many have travelled up from London today
43:18from the Bulgarian community
43:24there's a following for CSKA
43:32travelled I'm sure
43:32more in hope than expectation
43:38some hope to cling to here
43:43people have played themselves into a little bit of a corner
43:47there is Sissoko
43:48trying to fiddle them out of it
43:51just wonder if those changes will be made at half-time Peter
43:55Alonso hit a smashing free kick
43:57at the weekend against Sunderland
43:59yep absolutely
43:59I'm sure Rafa Benitez would much rather have rested them
44:02but need to be
44:04might well have to make a couple of changes
44:05just to liven it all
44:06brighten it all up here tonight
44:11Sissoko
44:12Sissoko
44:12Mori enters offside
44:20unlucky
44:21good idea
44:21good movement
44:22Mori enters
44:22you can see
44:23he's just a yard offside
44:24I think the referees brought it back
44:25for that challenge
44:26yes
44:30Sissoko
44:31it's interesting to talk about
44:32the potential for changes
44:34attending the Super Cup on Friday
44:36wouldn't be a lot of fun
44:37if they hadn't attended
44:39the Champions League tour on Thursday
44:41beforehand
44:46and it oughtn't to happen
44:47but the insurance of a goal from this set piece
44:50wouldn't half help
44:58this is preparing his long run
45:00Harman is adjacent to the ball
45:02Sissoko's in the wall
45:04Hoopias alongside the wall
45:05Mori enters waiting to pounce
45:07and Sissoko on the edge of the box
45:11and it's Rhesus
45:11a thump it
45:14hits it well
45:16like it was always just sailing
45:18a little bit over the top
45:20decent strike
45:20long long way out by the way
45:22got that lovely swerve on it
45:24that takes it away from the goalkeeper
45:25but it was just a yard too high
45:27it's a good strike
45:28again there
45:29you see it coming at you
45:31in real speed
45:32doesn't hang about
45:33started all 15 Champions League games
45:36last year
45:36John Arnurisa
45:37he's already missed one
45:38against Kaunas
45:39this year
45:42he was actually the only man
45:43to play all 120 minutes
45:45of the final
45:46and take a penalty
45:47that penalty of course
45:48was saved by Dieder
45:49which gladly for him
45:51can disappear into the history books
45:52and be forgotten about
46:08Zardy
46:08Dimitrov snapping in
46:10and then being caught
46:12by retreating Potter
46:15and in the last minute of the first half
46:17like then it said
46:19Dimitrov
46:20there are playmaker grounded
46:22Sofia have
46:24a set piece opportunity
46:25get the ball in the box
46:28again
46:28Guy and Iliyeva
46:29on their way into the box
46:30you can see him
46:31on the edge of the area now
46:32they must be picked up this time
46:34there's no point in getting
46:34all those red shirts back there
46:35if you're just going to
46:36stand and watch people
46:38go and tag a player
46:39and hang on to him
46:42now uplifting
46:43this could be for Iyesic
46:45supposedly took a two goal lead
46:46into his half time tour
46:57he's a good watchable player though
47:01isn't he
47:02Dimitrov uses the ball well
47:03good little player Peter
47:04he links up well
47:05well with Hidwar and Todorov
47:07pulls Gargarov as well there
47:09make nice little triangles there
47:10in the middle of the midfield
47:11there will be a minimum of one minute
47:13to go to the European Championships
47:15with Bulgaria in Portugal
47:17in the 2004
47:20here's Risa for Liverpool
47:23moved in at Cissé
47:25helped by Guy
47:27possibly heard the public address
47:29there which
47:29confirmed that we have
47:30just one minute to add on
47:31to the 45 here
47:33what has been a broadly
47:34uninterrupted half
47:37punctuated only by
47:38a shock
47:38Ilyev goal
47:40is making it rather less comfortable
47:42than they ought to be
47:42for Liverpool
47:44Risa's corner
47:45Hopiun
47:45failed to make contact
47:47altogether
47:48it's a chance
47:49it's a good chance
47:50for Sami Herpy again
47:51like Ilyev did
47:53for his goal
47:53Sami Herpy making a different
47:54kind of run
47:55look towards the near post
47:56you'd expect the big man
47:58to put his forehead on that
47:58and send that towards the goals
48:00that is a very good opportunity
48:04half time
48:06not as advertised
48:08goal from Valentin Ilyev
48:11has driven Liverpool
48:12out of their comfort zone
48:14Sofia have played with
48:16sophistication
48:16when on the ball
48:17and Liverpool find themselves
48:19behind on the night
48:20by one goal to nil
48:21but still ahead
48:23on aggregate mat
48:24by three goals
48:25for two
48:26thank you to Andy and Peter
48:28for the moment
48:28a stroll
48:29this isn't
48:30to the group stage
48:31Liverpool still need
48:32an aggregate
48:33but down on the night
48:34the thoughts
48:34of Ali and Robbie
48:36when we come back
48:36the way
48:37thanks
48:37for the next one
48:37the