Blackburn Rovers

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (H)
Result: Win
Score: 3-1
Attendance: 43,283
Liverpool Scorers: Gerrard (60), Torres (82), Voronin (90)
Opposition Scorers: Santa Cruz (90)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Aurelio, Carragher, Skrtel, Arbeloa, Babel, Alonso, Leiva, Kuyt, Gerrard (c), Torres, Hyypia (sub), Riise (sub), Benayoun (sub), Voronin (sub), Itandje (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Friedel, Warnock, Nelsen (c), Samba, Emerton, Pedersen, Reid, Vogel, Bentley, Roberts, Santa Cruz, Brown (sub), McCarthy (sub), Dunn (sub), Ooijer (sub), Mokoena (sub)

Match Report:

We watched this match on Sky, just me and my Dad.

There was a long silence at the start to remember Hillsborough, where 96 people died.  It’s 19 years ago on Tuesday that it happened.  It’s amazing when so many people are all quiet at the same time.

We started the match pretty well.  We had a lot of the ball, but everyone in a red shirt seemed to have a bad first touch, so we weren’t getting very far.  Babel was doing a bit down the left, and Kuyt was doing a bit from the right, but it wasn’t very good quality.

Blackburn had a goal disallowed for off-side.  Roberts was just offside!  Gerrard could have been given a penalty when he fell over Friedel, but it wasn’t given.  Then Samba pushed Gerrard over ust outside the box, and it should have been kick right on the line, but Alan Wiley gave nothing!

Torres missed a chance, Kuyt headed wide and Babel shot it into the upper tier of the Anny Road!

We had most of the possession and we really should have scored.  The second half needs to be much better if we are going to win!

I missed some of the second half, because I was helping my sister on Football Manager.  I saw the goals though!

Gerrard’s goal was fantastic.  Benayoun (who came on for Babel) passed through to Gerrard, then Gerrard did a one-two with Lucas and pushed the ball through Sambas legs to go one-on-one with Friedel.  As cool as you like, he hit along the floor and into the goal.  1-0!  Before the goal he should have had a penalty, too!

The second goal was excellent.  Gerrard crossed the ball with a high ball from the right.  Torres jumped and flicked it with his head past Friedel.  2-0!  And Torres gets his 30th goal of the season!!

Then Voronin came on for Torres and Riise came on for Alonso.

The third goal was pass from Benayoun that the defender got, but it came to Riise who passed the ball across the six yard area and Voronin slid across the ground and prodded it in.  3-0!!

They pulled a goal back at the end with a Santa Cruz volley and some bad defending, but it was too late by then.

We played well and never looked like losing.  Well done lads!