CL QF - Prepare for Alonso vs Lampard Part III...
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Prepare for fireworks as Chelsea star Lampard and Liverpool rival Alonso resume battle in the quest for Euro glory
Happy New Year, 2005...
Previous: Frank Lampard goes in hard on Xabi Alonso on New Year's Day 2005
Pain game: Alonso remains floored and spent three months recovering from a broken ankle
For Chelsea v Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-final, read Frank Lampard v Xabi Alonso. They've got history.
Most recently, England midfielder Lampard was controversially sent off for a challenge on the Spaniard in the second half of Chelsea's 2-0 defeat at Anfield on February 1.
Referee Mike Riley struggled at times to handle the stormy Anfield affair, yet Lampard himself had predicted there would be fireworks in an interview with Daily Mail chief sports writer Martin Samuel, published on the eve of the game.
The needle between Lampard and Alonso dates back to New Year's Day 2005, when a challenge by the Stamford Bridge midfield maestro saw his rival hit the deck with a broken ankle that put him on the sidelines for three months.
In Lampard's revealing interview with Sportsmail, he looked forward to the weekend's meeting by saying: '[The rivalry] is strong, I can’t deny that. The players feel an extra edge. You’ll see it on Sunday. 'We’ve played them so many times in big games so lots of individual tensions build up. There is always something between me and Xabi Alonso, for instance.’
'But you broke his leg', replied Samuel.
‘Yes, I know, and it was a foul and I got booked, so I am not trying to plead innocence, but it was a tap, it wasn’t anything nasty; the sort of tackle that happens all the time, both ways.
'That night, when I heard how it had worked out, I felt very bad and phoned to apologise but he wouldn’t really have it and ever since he has that look in his eye when we meet, and there is always a bit of jostling and shoving.'
Lampard got there first with a high, studs-showing tackle. But he got the ball before Xabi Alonso's follow-through connected with the Chelsea man.
Riley saw it as Lampard's foul and duly produced the red card.
Re-match, 2009...
Lampard and Alonso come together for a 50-50 ball
Lampard catches Alonso with the follow-though
Alonso heads for the ground
Referee Mike Riley produces the red card
Chelsea captain John Terry pleads his team-mate's innocence as Liverpool players check on Alonso
Chelsea boss Luiz Felipe Scolari, since departed, was one of many who thought the decision was wrong. The Brazilian said: 'I want the referee to look at this on television and maybe change this card for Lampard. When I look at it I see it as a foul by the other player.
'Maybe when he looks on TV he will change the red card, and we will have Lampard for the next game.'
Scolari admitted one of his players had committed a far worse foul, namely when Jose Bosingwa stuck his boot into the small of Yossi Benayoun's back as the Liverpool midfielder tried to run down the clock by the corner flag.
He said: 'If the referee decided to send off Bosingwa I would have understood. A red card for this I would accept, but not Lampard's.'
Expect more of the same when it all kicks off again in the quest to ultimately lift the European Cup in Rome's Olympic Stadium in May.
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what stunt will alonso pull out? broken tooth? or maybe eye ball dropp out
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later lampard play in stiker just to avoid that =.= lol
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Lolx
Wad about Yossi VS Bosingwa? -
Originally posted by Scania N113CRB l0v3r:
Lolx
Wad about Yossi VS Bosingwa?ass kicking match!
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Originally posted by Scania N113CRB l0v3r:
Lolx
Wad about Yossi VS Bosingwa?
This one not so bad lah...Alonso and Lampard got a long history liao mah...
Quoted from Lampard:
"I felt very bad and phoned to apologise but he wouldn’t really have it and ever since he has that look in his eye when we meet"
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Originally posted by zocoss:
This one not so bad lah...Alonso and Lampard got a long history liao mah...
Quoted from Lampard:
Since like English Man VS Spanish Man if they two same clubs confirm gt fight like Dyer VS Lee Bowyer