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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 , 12:17 AM

Loooong overdue post on Livers' performance against Blackburn. Do bear with me while I get it all out. :)

Blackburn 0-0 Liverpool

19" Nice block by Riise at the corner of penalty box (down the right flank)
Forced back many times, back passing by rovers shows immaculate communication and outright confidence
We look really half hearted today
Certainly not sharp today
First half's pace's kinda slow
Rovers created more attempts for sure.
LOL! Someone's playing Rubik's cube in the stands. o_0! Can't blame him, can I? =x

34" Bentley VERY NEARLY got us 1 down! Riise tried to clear it but it was really sloppy by his standards!
We're playing like puppets really, hate to admit, Rovers dominating the 1st half.
Boy, the Liver lads sure look frustrated.
I am frustrated. =(

41" Benayoun's good move finds Babel, he does well but doesn't completes it. Awesome attempt though, we sparked back to life for a few seconds there and at least gave Rovers' GK some work to do, otherwise even he might begin to take his Rubik's cube out of his pocket for some entertainment instead.

45" Dunn's long range shot nearly got the lead, pity it bounced off the woodwork instead! Whatta scare!
Are we lucky or are they unlucky? Hmm...

46" Corner for Rovers
Gerrard's ON side la ref!

First-half statistics:
Blackburn 0-0 Liverpool

Possession
52% 48%

Shots on target
5 2

Shots off target
3 0

Corners
2 0

Fouls
3 4

Gawd. I gotta pop some pills (candy), this is beginning to get depressing. We hung scraped 9 pts outta the last 5 games. My friend kept rubbing salt into my wound, touting our continued unbeaten run and then going on to quote the amount of 1 pointers we got. -_-"
On our first half, dammit we gave the ball away far too many times. And please for football's sakes BRING ON CROUCH, KEWELL, LUCAS! We need to load up on pace and firepower Rafa!
It's a miracle Dunn's goal didn't make it into the back of the net.
We need to play with more width, the center's just too tight for the likes of Gerrard to make an impact. Just check out BBC's quotes at half-time.

1742: "Liverpool tactics look crude, it seems as though they're gonna bore the opposition into submission then steal a goal when they're asleep. Effective to say the least and it looks to be working."

-----------------------------HALF TIME---------------------------------

47" Nice clearance by Carragher
Babel's attempt gets a corner

53" Riise's clearance sucks today
KUYT SUCKS BIG TIME! Get him off, sub him with Rafa whatever, just get him off! He's too slow to connect with Gerrard man!
Yellow for Carra's foul on Santa Cruz. Free kick awarded to Rovers. 5 men wall
Nice block by Gerrard's butt. Corner for rovers

61" Kuyt took forever to connect to kuyt! Uuurghhhhh!!! He's too slow to react, too indecisive!
Babel's off for Kewell (Hurrah! But why Babel!?! )
Bring Kuyt off...bring Kuyt off *chanting*
Oops handball by Carra!?! Just trying to balance himself? Didn't look deliberate but really should've been a second yellow for him.
Corner finds Santa Cruz but it's just over the net.
Backpassing by rovers many times, really awesome communication on pitch.

69" Crouch's coming on!!!
GET KUYT OUTTA THERE!

71" Crouch come on for Benayoun (why!?!)
Why not shift Babel up front and take Kuyt off?!
73" Nice 1-2 move by Kuyt and Gerrard, connects to Crouch

Crouch's offside though, wasted!
We need a goal! Rafa needs his job! We need hope!

78" Carra's one on one with Santa Cruz

78" Gerrard could've got us 1 up! His should-be goal deflects off the post and finds Crouch but he
wasn't sharp enough. =( Eyes on the ball, eyes on the ball. Owen's dad always says.

Rovers seem to be slowing down

Kewell's presence injects some much-needed pace and attack. Things are beginning to look a lil' better.
Carra and Mascherano's yelling at each other (Carra giving Masch a earful for giving away the ball too often). Masch says f*ck off (haha I'm a good lip reader).
Someone on Liverpool's message boards just suggested "why rotate players rotate managers!"
5 mins to FT...
Crouch missed the header which's deflected, Gerrard picks it up and shoots! Friedel saves! =(
Kuyt skyrockets it into the air right in front of Rover's goal after Kewell's slots the ball in for him
89" Kuyts takes it again and shoots but misses! But it's a tough angle though.
I'm kinda sad for Kuyt, he's really hardworking to get things right but it's just not working and will you just look at the man! He's obviously frustrated with himself, *sighs* pray that some soccer muse inspires him and shows him the way *saintly music* soon.
And it's yet another draw. =/

--------------------------Full Time------------------------------------

11 unbeaten runs but we had sooooooo many draws. Please please don't give us any more draws. Carra's been picking up many fouls (more than his average last season) lately, and you can't blame him, he's the only guy on the pitch going out to tackle his opponents. Rafa'd better do something and fast! Or he's gonna join Moaninho on a looong holiday where they can yell each others' heads off about referees' decisions FOREVER, no holds barred :). Ohhh bring back the Liverpool of old, bring them back to me. =,(

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