You can see that we had a great win over Genoa in the first leg of our Champions League tie. Nicolas Otamendi scored twice, Fernando Torres got yet another goal this season, and goals from Glen Johnson, David Silva and Francesco Magnanelli completed an emphatic victory, one which put us all but through to the Semis. Federico Laurito scored the consolation goal for Genoa.
The second leg was rather boring, they opened the scoring, but once Torres equalised it was all over and we were through! We later learned that we would play arch rivals Man Utd in the Semi Final, it was sure to be a big game.
The Premier League matches against West Brom, Fulham and Sheff Utd were pretty straightforward wins, the FA Cup Semi Final against Aston Villa was slightly more difficult, but we managed to pull through and we are through to the Final!
After that it was on to the first leg of our Champions League tie against Man Utd, the first leg was at Old Trafford. We were missing both Javier Mascherano and Magnanelli through injury, and as I wanted to play a five man midfield, 20 year old wonderkid Adam Brown was brought in.
He did quite well and we played alright, but United were the better team. However Fernando Torres nicked a goal, and although they equalised we never looked like conceding more, and we came away with a very good draw.
After the victories over the above mentioned teams we needed one more win to secure the title. It was a tough one, away at Chelsea, made tougher by the fact that we had played the first leg against Man Utd just two days earlier. The game wasn't very good but once again it was Torres who scored the decisive goal for us, he terrorised Terry with his pace. Chelsea didn't play well and barely created anything, so it wasn't too difficult for us to hold on to our lead. The victory meant we had won the title once again! I was very pleased, we can now rest players for the big matches coming up.
One of the matches in which players were rested was against Newcastle, and we lost, despite playing well going forward, we were poor at the back and Newcastle punished us and we succumbed to only our second loss in the league this season.
We had to pick ourselves up quickly for the final match of the month, it was the second leg against Man Utd. Mascherano was back from injury and the fit again Jules Jourdain came in for Carragher.
We played much better in this game than the first leg, Mascherano protecting the defence made a big difference. We dominated possession and had much more attempts, but we had to wait until the stroke of half time to go ahead, Torres was played in and he doesn't miss from 8 yards. We came put after the break still playing well and it was 2-0 when Gerrard slotted in after a through ball. Torres then slotted in another with Untied powerless to resist. After this I took off the key players with the game in the bag, and it finished a comfortable 3-0 victory for us, we had beaten our main rivals and are through to the Final!
We will face Real Madrid and all their superstars in the final, it will be a tough game, but we have a good chance of victory if Torres continues his form. He has now got an incredible 49 goals in just 45 games this season, one of those as a sub!
Here is the league table then, we are confirmed as champions, so I will rest a few players ahead of the two finals we have coming up.
That's all for now then friends, thanks for reading and please comment!
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