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Stalemate At Stamford Bridge As Liverpool Draw


Peter Crouch in action against ChelseaLiverpool walk away from Stamford Bridge this evening with a point, pushing us back into 5th in the table, but the lads should be kicking themselves for not taking all three points.

The fact is, Liverpool were the better side today. Chelsea know it. The Chelsea fans know it. The Liverpool fans know it and, but for for lack of finishing, it could have been 1-0 or 2-0 to Liverpool.

Chances were plentiful for Peter Crouch in the first half but he couldn’t make anything of them. Try and all as they did in the first half and second half, Liverpool couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net. More annoyingly so, the side looked good in defence as well, shutting down Chelsea at every opportunity, Pepe Reina remaining relatively untroubled throughout the game.

Lucas looked well in the middle of the park alongside Mascherano and Rafa’s pairing of Martin Skrtel and Jamie Carragher in the the centre of defence continues to bloom with Skrtel passing each test shown to him today.

Visibly, Liverpool were stronger in the first half and really should have hit home at that stage. Striking options were limited before the game with the absence of both Torres and Voronin but more should really have been made of Peter Crouch’s chances. Dirk Kuyt was a bit isolated on the right though did make it through the 90 minutes, Liverpool’s changes coming when Babel was swapped out for Pennant with 20 minutes to go.

10 minutes to go in the game and Michael Ballack had a decent chance to hand Chelsea the lead, his volley ducking wide past the post in a let off for Liverpool. Any goal at that stage of the game would have killed the whole thing off.

With the draw, we’re back into fifth in the table, thanks only to goal difference over Aston Villa and Man City (who beat United in the derby just to piss off Alex Ferguson earlier today). Everton are on the horizon but I still wonder whether, with lack of clinical finishing as there was today, will Liverpool be able to cement a place in the top four of the table before the end of the season.

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One Response to “Stalemate At Stamford Bridge As Liverpool Draw”

  1. fabrizio on February 16th, 2008 1:16 pm

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