Birmingham City

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Drew
Score: 2-2
Attendance: 29,252
Liverpool Scorers: Crouch (63), Benayoun (75)
Opposition Scorers: Forssell (33), Larsson (57)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Riise, Hyypia (c), Skrtel, Finnan, Benayoun, Plessis, Leiva, Pennant, Crouch, Voronin, Gerrard (sub), Kuyt (sub), Insua (sub), Carragher (sub), Itandje (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Taylor, Murphy, Jaidi, Ridgewell (c), Kelly, Kapo, Nafti, Muamba, Larsson, Forssell, McFadden. Doyle (sub), Queudrue (sub), Zarate (sub), McSheffrey (sub), Jerome (sub)

Match Report:

I watched the highlights of this on MOTD.

It looked like we played quite well.  Rafa made 9 changes to the Champs League side from Tuesday night.  Only Skrtel and Reina from that team played against Birmingham today.

Birmingham took the lead in the first half when Forssell scored.  McFadden ran down teh right wing against Riise, doing step-overs, and Riise didn’t tackle him.  McFadden crossed it to Forssell who let it bounce and smacked it past Reina who was charging out of his goal doing a WWE Smackdown dive!  Crouch did have a shot in the first half, but Taylor saved it.

In the second half, Skrtel founled McFadden and Birmingham got the free-kick, which Larsson curled into the top left hand corner.  2-0!

But we came right back into it.  Pennant made a run and passed the ball to Benayoun.  Benayoun passed it back to Pennant who slipped the ball to Voronin, who was in the box.  Voronin knocked the ball to Crouch who smashed it past Taylor.  2-1!

Then Pennant made another run.  He gave the ball to Lucas, who ran down the wing and crossed the ball with his right foot.  Benayoun headed it towards goal and it hit Jaidi’s back and went in.  2-2!  Me and my Dad don’t think it was an own goal, we are going to give it to Yossi.

2-2. Great result for us – we should be safe in 4th now