Still Not A Threat, Jose?

13 Aug 2006 Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool - FA Community Shield

BBC - A tepid second half looked to be drifting towards penalties when Crouch rose to head in Craig Bellamy's cross. Liverpool, with Steven Gerrard on the bench, went ahead when John Arne Riise ran 60 yards before beating Carlo Cudicini with a dipping shot. But £30.8m striker Andriy Shevchenko equalised before the break, guiding home Frank Lampard's inviting pass.
Victory will be particularly sweet for Rafael Benitez, who began the match with skipper Gerrard, £6m signing Bellamy and Xabi Alonso on the bench. By contrast, Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho packed summer arrivals Shevchenko and Michael Ballack into his side alongside established first-teamers Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Arjen Robben. But while Liverpool may have lacked the star power of their opponents, they were the more cohesive unit in the first half.

HOW RAFA ENJOYED THE LAST LAUGH
Matt Lawton, Daily Mail 14 August 2006

"If they lose against a 50 per cent Chelsea, maybe that will affect their confidence," Mourinho said last Friday in what amounted to a touch of early verbal jousting with Rafa Benitez and probably contributed to the failure of the two managers to shake hands at the end of this contest.

Presumably Mourinho would now like to revise that opinion after watching his players lose to a 50 per cent Liverpool. A Liverpool team, even the Portuguese might be prepared to admit, that appear capable of posing a far more significant threat to the English champions this season, not just in major semi-finals but in the league, too. [Read More]

Mourinho said on 2 Aug: "I still believe United and Arsenal will be the biggest threat. They will be the better teams. I say that because of the quality of their football, the way they play, the improvements in their squads."

So, how about us now, Jose?
As the title on the Daily Express reads: "Jose unable to ignore Reds."