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Liverpool - Chelsea: Primer asalto
22 Abril 2008 | | Click here to view market
Rojos contra Azules, y sin buscar ninguna interpretación más allá de la estrictamente deportiva, librarán esta noche una batalla que promete lucha, espectaculo y....¿goles?
This Tuesday gives us all the chance to watch two of football's real life soap operas go head-to-head in the first leg of the Champions League Semi-Final. Liverpool host Chelsea in what promises to be one of the all-time great clashes between the two sides. Both sets of players will be desperate to get on the pitch and let some football do the talking, rather than the usual squabbles about who has fell out with who in the Liverpool boardroom or whether Avram Grant has a future at Chelsea.
You have to feel for the Liverpool fans, and even as a neutral I'm slightly embarrassed by the situation. They are on the brink of their third Champions League final in the last four seasons yet the only headlines we are waking up to is that Tom Hicks has stuck some more needles in his Rick Parry and George Gillett voodoo dolls. As a Liverpool fan said to me just yesterday, Gillett (who apparently isn't the best a man can get), Hicks and Parry need locking up in a room together for an hour, and if they still can't resolve this mess then they should all walk away from the club.
As for Chelsea, the situation isn't that much better. Rumours that Grant has to win the Champions League to keep his job (even then I think he will be ousted), rumours that Abramovich not only buys the players but he also picks the team etc. All this can't be good for the morale of the club - some players don't know whether they are coming or going, in or out of the team, have a future at the club, or are being lined up for sale.
A pesar de las problemáticas internas que viven ambos clubs, a partir del pitido inicial, los 22 jugadores de campo, el rugir de la grada, y la intensidad y los nervios de unas semifinales de la Champions League, nos aseguran un gran espectáculo.
Con un Liverpool ligeramente favorito por el factor campo, las cuotas a su favor son de
2.42, el empate lo podoemos encontrar a 3.1 y la victoria del Chelsea a 3.7. .
Si tiramos de historia, de las seis veces que se han enfrentado estos dos equipos en esta competición, donde tres partidos acabaron con un solo tanto, y los otros tres con las porterias de las de escuadras a cero. El mercado de Menos de 2.5 goles puede resultar interesante con una cuota de 1.56.Not surprisingly, the four shortest priced options in the 'Correct Score' market are a 1-1 draw (6.8), 1-0 to Liverpool (7.0), 0-0 (7.2), and 1-0 to Chelsea (9.4). An uncharacteristic 2-2 draw for these two teams is available at [24], while a 3-3 outcome can be backed at [120] - now that really would be soap opera material.
