Jamie Carragher believes Tuesday's Champions League semi-final second leg has the potential to be one of Anfield's greatest ever occasions.With Liverpool trailing Chelsea 1-0 from the first leg Carragher is well aware of the difficult task he and his team-mate face as they seek to book a place in the Athens final. But the Reds vice-captain, who will make a record 90th European appearance for the club against the Londoners, insists they have a great chance. He's calling on all Liverpudlians to help make it another night to remember and reckons if they manage to overturn the deficit it will eclipse that never-to-be-forgotten triumph over Jose Mourinho's men in 2005. He told Liverpoolfc.tv: "If someone had said at the start of the season, you're losing the Champions League semi-final 1-0, with the second leg to come at Anfield - we'd have bit someone's hand off for that! We've still got a very good chance. "It was disappointing to get beat (at Stamford Bridge), obviously it would have been nice to get an away goal but all is not lost. I think it's definitely game on at Anfield now, it will obviously be a great atmosphere and we need the fans behind us as much as ever. "It's very important that we get the first goal of course because an away goal would make it very difficult but were definitely still well in the tie. "The fact that we're a goal down will probably make the atmosphere that bit better really. Everyone realises now that we've got to really go after them and I think if we get through this time it will go down as one of the great nights at Anfield." He added: "Hopefully it will be a little bit more open for us and there’ll be more chances for us but they defend very well and I’m sure they’ll come to Anfield looking to do that again. We didn’t create many chances at Stamford Bridge but I’m sure we’ll create more at Anfield. "We don’t need to go too gung-ho early on though. We should learn from what we did against Benfica last year, we got a bit carried away in the first half and ended up conceding so we’ve got to use our heads."
By:Mark Platt
Date:30 April 2007
Credit:www.liverpoolfc.tv
Date:30 April 2007
Credit:www.liverpoolfc.tv
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