Hammer Of Dawn, Liverpool Beaten By Penalty

Mark Noble beats Pepe Reina with the final kick of the game. Games like this aren’t supposed to happen.

I go away for one evening mid-week and return to find Liverpool have not only failed to pick up three points against West Ham - they’ve failed to pick up any points against West Ham.

What the hell like?

United top Portsmouth by a brace and Liverpool slip to West Ham, lose more ground in the League. Never mind the question of winning the league, the real problem now is actually finishing in fourth place. Or trying to finish in fourth place. UEFA Cup football would be a disaster for Liverpool next season.

Benitez reckons there was enough done on the night to bag three points, only that Liverpool need to be calmer in front of goal when it comes to converting chances - and there were chances too.

7th in the league - still three points away from 4th spot, but it’s a further 10 on to Chelsea and even more on to United at this point. Man City, Aston Villa and Everton are holding their own but in all the league games so far in 2008 we’ve only managed to take 4 points. Out of 15? Bad form.

I’m secretly hoping now that the transfer window comes to a close, the Americans have backed Rafa, the FA Cup is back on track that the media hype and speculation surrounding Liverpool in recent months will disappear and leave the team where they should be - focusing on football.

But going down 1-0 to West Ham? And a penalty in extra time at that.

Grrrrr….

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