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Well, its the Pool all the way for me.

They have had a poor Premiership campaign, but as we all know domestic form counts for naff all in this game. Liverpool have beaten the Champions of Italy & England and they hammered Leverkusen who earlier in the competition hammered Madrid 3-0.

Liverpool have consistantly been priced badly IMO. They were 33's in January when drawn against Leverkusen. IMO, they were a guaranteed ticket to the quarter final at least and I cant see how they were 33's and above.

Milan's defence have a combined age of 141... Maldini was a class player, Costacurta was a class player, Cafu was a class player. PSV showed what can be dont if you dont buy the nonsense and the mystique that comes with Italian teams. No nonsense, up and at them football will do the job. If you fanny about and give them too much respect then they will shaft you 1-0. PSV were robbed IMO and should have drawn or won in the San Siro. They didnt and Liverpool will have to be wary of Sheva of course, but the icing on the cake for Carragher this season can be to shut out one of Europe's best strikers for 90 minutes. I think he has a winning mentality, his confidence will never have been higher and I believe he will do the job and make Shevchenko look average.

Benitez is a thinker. He will have planned for every eventuality and will have been running through set piece line ups, outcomes and scenarios all week in training. The rest will have done the players a world of good. Milan have passed 5'000 tickets to Liverpool to sell (dunno if they couldnt sell them all themselves), Istanbul will be a sea of red and they will have the bottle on the night to see them off.

Liverpool all the way, Carra FGS because I would love it for him, 2-0 and the scorecast