Gerrard Concedes The Title

Liverpool’s title challenge has been ruled finished by Steven Gerrard today before we take on United at the weekend and then hosting Barcelona the week after.

Speaking earlier he said

If we can give a big performance and get the right result then it will give us all a big confidence booster for the Barcelona game. It’s just a pity there’s not as much riding on this game in terms of a Liverpool title challenge as we’d have hoped.

Its true that there isn’t much riding on the game in terms of a title challenge, but we’ve still got third place to anchor down and, we do have a slim possibility of replacing Chelsea as runners up in the league before the season is out.

A 2-1 lead over Barcelona going into the return leg also gives us hopes for a repeat of 2005 but I wouldn’t hold my breath. I reckon myself at this stage it is a foregone conclusion that United will lift the trophy but with just under three months of league football still left Liverpool should be going out and giving it their all to make up for the “silly points” lost at the start of the season.

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