Liverpool vs Inter Milan preview


Vice-captain Jamie Carragher will play his 100th European game - a Liverpool record - in the San Siro. Steven Gerrard believes that Fernando Torres will kill off Inter Milan's Champions League dreams in the San Siro. And the Liverpool skipper admits and he would not swap Torres for any other striker in the world. Gerrard knows Inter will be a different proposition in front of their own fans. "We will have to play as well as we have done anywhere this season now,'' he warned. Inter will be without Marco Materazzi after his sending-off in the first-leg and Gerrard believes his replacement will face a tough task trying to contain Torres, adding: "The lad who comes into their side for Materazzi will not be looking forward to his 90 minutes against Fernando.'' Torres has hit 25 goals in 34 matches for Liverpool. Gerrard said: "We will be looking to hit them on the counter-attack and Torres plays that game better than anyone around. "Not only can you stick the ball over the top and let him chase it, but he can make things happen himself like he did against Marseille earlier in the tournament, when we needed to win in France to go through to the last 16. "He roasted Materazzi in the first-leg. He (Materazzi) might think he was hard-done-by to be sent off but he could have been booked for a bad tackle before he had one yellow, never mind the second one. "It shows how easy Torres' pace and strength unsettled a World Cup winner.''"He has been massive for us and gives us so many different options up front. He's banging them in and always looks a threat every time he plays. "You can play him on his own or with a partner and he just adapts perfectly. "He's certainly made life tough for the foreign boys coming to England now. When you look at the impact he has made in just seven months here, it means that no-one now can make excuses about needing time to settle. "I feel England suits him even better than Spain. He suits the constant flow and the rough and tumble of the Premier League better than the stop-start technical La Liga. "He is just a kid really in football terms, and he is going to get better and better. That is a frightening thought, but not for us. It's frightening for the defences he is going to be coming up against.'' Gerrard believes Liverpool can survive in the cauldron of an 80,000-packed stadium. He says: "We are facing another big test. We did the job in the first leg and did it brilliantly but we have qualified for nothing yet. "The last eight is 90 minutes away and we might have to play better than we did in the first match. They are going to fly out at us from the first whistle but we can defend all night if we have to. "But we also believe we will worry the hell out of them. They will be reluctant to over-commit against us because they got nothing at Anfield. "They got no change from our defence, no possession and no time to settle. We will be going for them again because we know we can score there and kill off the tie.''