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All Smiles As Liverpool Beat Inter

From a disasterous weekend in the FA Cup to a brilliant European night at Anfield, Liverpool have managed to turn things around again and have beaten Inter Milan tonight 2-0.

Funny enough… two of us were chatting in the car earlier about the match tonight, giving the forecast. Pre-game I had figured it would be either all Liverpool or all Inter and I was half tempted to ring the bookie’s to see what odds they were offering on Liverpool to score at least three goals in the game.

They nearly did it too.

2-0 was the score though and 2-0 should be more than enough to keep whining fans happy, even if it was left late to find the two goals.

The first came from Dirk Kuyt, his shot taking a hop, skip and a jump across the box to beat Julio Cesar in the Inter goal, Jermaine Pennant setting up the Dutchman for his second goal in the week. Not bad considering the sizeable gap in the timeline he’d had to his prior goal spell.

Not resting at 1-0, Gerrard managed to squeeze a shot in low to Cesar’s right before the game was up, the low drive beating a string of Inter players from 25 yards out to sneak into the bottom corner. How he saw the opening is beyond me but it got there and sealed what really was Liverpool’s night.

They started well, put the pressure on and were pretty relentless in going forward - Kuyt, Torres, Babel and Crouch all getting involved in the attacking game. Torres had the run of Inter in the first half hour, Marco Materazzi seeing red within 30 minutes for two bookable offences, dragging Torres to the ground with him when he had the chance.

What it means now is that we’re off to the San Siro with two goal advantage, a nice lead to have when you consider a place in the Champions League quarter final is at stake.

For their part, Chelsea could only draw with Olympiakos in Greece while favourites Real Madrid went down 2-1 away to Roma. Hopefully tonight can both raise and sustain morale with ‘Boro on the cards for Saturday.

Last eight? Yes please.

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