UEFA CL Group Stage - Liverpool, Porto, Besiktas, Marseille

Some information about our next opponent in the Champion League (from the previous season) (Thought everyone might know all that already):

FCPorto placed first in the Portuguese Liga last season with 69 points (the second, Sporting Lisbon got 68 points). They played 30 games, got 22 wins, 3 draws and 5 loss, scored 65 goals and received 20 goals. They played 15 games at thier stadium, Estadio do Dragao, got 13 wins and 2 loss, scored 38 goals and received 9 goals. They had 15 games away, win 9, draw 3 ans lost 3, scored 27 goals, received 11 goals.

This season, they played 2 games, win all these 2, scored 3 goals and had 1 goals against, now they placed first.

Thier recent squad is:
 
Bruno Vale                                                  Goalkeeper
1 Helton                                                  Goalkeeper
2 Bruno Alves                                                Defender
3 Pedro Emanuel                                           Defender
4 Milan Stepanov                                           Defender
5 Marek Cech                                                 Defender
6 Paulo Assuncao                                          Midfield
7 Ricardo Quaresma                                       Midfield
8 Luis González                                             Midfield
9 Lisandro López                                           Striker
11 Mariano Gonzalez                                       Striker
12 José Bosingwa                                          Midfield
13 Jorge Fucile                                              Defender   
14 João Andrade                                           Defender
15 Dorvalino Maciel                                         Defender
16 Raúl Meireles                                            Midfield   
17 Tarik Sektioui                                           Midfield
18 Mario Bolatti                                             Midfield
19 Ernesto Farias                                           Striker
20 Luis Leandro Abreu de Lima                       Midfield
21 Luis Aguiar                                              Midfield
23 Helder Postiga                                         Striker   
24 Hugo Ventura                                        Goalkeeper   
25 Przemyslaw Kazmierczak                           Midfield
26 André Castro                                          Midfield
28 Adriano                                                 Striker
29 Edgar                                                   Striker
30 Rui Pedro                                              Midfield
33 Nuno                                               Goalkeeper
34 André Monteiro                                      Striker
Fabinho                                                     Midfield
Bruno Moraes                                               Striker

Sorry Huyton but thats true its your personel opinion that others are more fiery,truth will be shown in Istanbul when you come over here.
We are going to have surprises for you!

What kind of surprises? Have you got a new scoreboard or something?

Name on it koolkidda,suprise!
This is football and supporters are the biggest part of the show,so you should keep watching,ok?
Added to this fact,new scoreboard wont be surprising my friend,the score writes on it would be surprising

You don't seriously believe Besiktas are going to get through this group do you?

I hope so my friend,to be realist it will be hard and long way but not a dream to believe on!

Ozzy may have a valid point regarding the surprise as I would like to see Besiktas go through along with us ahead of Porto and Marseille............... ...........

I didnt want to mention surprises about the matches and results..
I really know how you make pressure on opponents and i reaaly get excited when watching,we have similarities and like to show some enjoyful scenes when you come over here!

Playing Bekistas away will be interesting, the atmosphere will be tough. Porto away is probably the toughest game of them all and I'm glad that we are playing this one first and not last. Marseille is having a really poor season so far and even with their public we should overcome it easely.

Cisse and Bolo back to Anfield that is good and for those who wonder what reception they will received well a good one as always for former players at least 99% of them.

With the squad we have I have no doubt that we will go throught.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dmcdOHsJA çArşı always die for Beşiktaş

Very impressive, I like the part 1,2,3 the most, The çArşı're really impressive. But It didn't impress me as much as the first time I heard 42000 Liverpudlians sing "You'll never walk alone", that was when I was 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dmcdOHsJA çArşı always die for Beşiktaş

A turkish invasion is underway.

Who cares about Besiktas really?! Porto will be closest to us and they are the only ones who I can seriously see going through with the mighty Reds.

We've seen over the past two seasons with Bordeaux and Toulouse that, apart from Lyon, the French league and its teams are pretty crap. Marseille were good about 15 years ago but haven't really done anything since. Besides Cisse, I don't think I can name any of their players now Ribery has left.

Going to Turkey away could be interesting but we should really beat them quite easily. Galatasaray were swept aside at home until we took our foot off the gas to let them back to 3-2, and we put a second string team out away which for defensive errors would have won their too.

You can't underestimate them, how do You rate Feneyord Rotterdam anyway? LiverpoolFC draw with them with the best team, and then Portsmouth, they beat LiverpoolFC too (thought by Penalty shoot out). We can't underestimate anyone. We can't say anything in football, You can see that when You saw Aston Villa beat Chelsea 2-0. Any team can become fantastic, just when they do.

You can't underestimate them, how do You rate Feneyord Rotterdam anyway? LiverpoolFC draw with them with the best team, and then Portsmouth, they beat LiverpoolFC too (thought by Penalty shoot out). We can't underestimate anyone. We can't say anything in football, You can see that when You saw Aston Villa beat Chelsea 2-0. Any team can become fantastic, just when they do.

Pre Season games can't really be compared to Champions League proper.

Put it this way; if we lost to Besiktas (all respect to 'em) we'd be extremely dissappointed...

Our draw is stuck right in the middle of the easy and hard categories. We've had it a lot harder than this, the 2005 group says it all, but I do believe that this group is a lot easier than last years.
Porto will always be hard opposition, with or without their big players, but surely a team of our standard should be able to beat them home and away. I suppose that an away draw wouldn't be a problem on matchday 1.
Marseille have a chance of qualification to the last 16, but they'll need a whole lot of luck and the ability to take advantage of other teams slip ups. I suppose the trip to France should be hard, but they won't be good enough for us at home and I'll go for a definite win in both games.
I'm sorry, but I think Besiktas will be a threat. By this, I mean they'll push us and the other two all the way. There's always a team which provide a shock at this stage in the competition and the money that's involved during these rounds means that we've got to get teams like Besiktas out the equasion as early as possible.

Its good to see some people respect to Besiktas JK
We are not in C.L. for 4 years and missed so much
So this effects good on players and make them extra concandrate on these matches.
Its a fact that money talks also all points make cashes into so board also deserves team to win
I'm so excited..

A turkish invasion is underway.

Seems only fair after what i just put them through

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBt-p66QSMI

Last time when we were in C.L. the group of Chelsea,Lazio and Sparta Prag we just missed being 2nd in the last match and the video is from the game at Stamford Bridge
We played in Germany and lost the second match same score 0-2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKgYTIzyQKs what do you think this video(kral çArşı)

Boss vid and not a jesters hat in sight 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKgYTIzyQKs what do you think this video(kral çArşı)

Great video.

What does the chanting mean?

Oh, by the way, what would you say were your teams main weaknesses?
(Don't worry Rafa never reads these posts)