Sunday, March 04, 2007

1-0 to Utd! Its a massive win for the lads, and puts us one step closer to taking back the Premiership title that is rightly ours. For 90 whole minutes, Liverpool looked the better of the two, and could've easily won the game at the Kop end with two or three chances just going a-begging.

They came storming out in the second, and had us on the ropes for much of that 45 minutes. Fergie tried to reverse the flow by pulling Rooney back into midfield, but to little effect. A flurry of changes followed for both teams, enforced or otherwise. Utd threw on Silvestre, Saha and O'Shea for Evra, Larsson and Rooney, while Rafa played around with the formations, first pulling off Bellamy for Pennant for the 4-5-1, then back to the 4-4-2 with Crouch on for Sissoko. The latter change was the turning point in the game for me. Without the man-hulk in the centre, Utd managed to push back the tide, and started making forays of their own into the Kop half. One of those forays resulted in a freekick, intelligently won by Giggs in his 700th game no less. Ronaldo's inswinger befuddled the Pool defence, and Reina's poor stop only managed to push the ball out to O'Shea, who made no mistake from less than five yards.

And so it is, yet another smash and grab effort from the boys. Mark of champions? Damn sure is.

i heard the crickets at 12:15 pm

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