Following the heights achieved on Tuesday, Liverpool reverted back to their earthly commitments hosting Blackburn Rovers at Anfield to honour their thirty-fourth Premiership fixture of the season. Liverpool must have been slightly hungover, and took their time to adjust themselves to the low gravity and contrast that such fixture presented compared to the yet again dramatically successful European quarter-final tie, but they went with their job in the same way most reds have probably gone on last Wednesday morning. Nothing special, nothing high flying, but enough to get through the day, and doing enough to earn their pay. The first half looked rather insipid and the 0-0 score-line did it justice and was probably akin to most reds productivity in the first hours of Wednesday morning, but then in the second half, Liverpool looked livelier, eventually breaking the deadlock on the hour mark.
It was Yossi Benayoun who won the ball when Blackburn looked to be averting the danger. Steven Gerrard was then the recipient, and with a quick one-two with Lucas, the captain infiltrated his way face to face with their keeper through the legs of Samba and coolly side-footing the ball into the net. The partnership between the captain and Fernando Torres was once again in action later on the match, as a perfect dipping cross by the former was met by the latter’s header that finished in the net, looked to confirm the three points to Liverpool, and with such a peace of mind, Rafael Benìtez substituted the thirty goal man so far with the sound of another standing ovation in the background.
In his five minute cameo, Andriy Voronin managed to get his name on the score-sheet, courtesy of a pass from the other out of favour John Arne Riise. He could hardly celebrate as he looked to do his ankle in the process, in what could easily be his last goal for Liverpool. A clean sheet was tainted by a Santa Cruz volley, but it only served to frustrate Jamie Carragher as another campaign of Champions League football looks to be on the way to be confirmed in the next one or two weeks.
It was Yossi Benayoun who won the ball when Blackburn looked to be averting the danger. Steven Gerrard was then the recipient, and with a quick one-two with Lucas, the captain infiltrated his way face to face with their keeper through the legs of Samba and coolly side-footing the ball into the net. The partnership between the captain and Fernando Torres was once again in action later on the match, as a perfect dipping cross by the former was met by the latter’s header that finished in the net, looked to confirm the three points to Liverpool, and with such a peace of mind, Rafael Benìtez substituted the thirty goal man so far with the sound of another standing ovation in the background.
In his five minute cameo, Andriy Voronin managed to get his name on the score-sheet, courtesy of a pass from the other out of favour John Arne Riise. He could hardly celebrate as he looked to do his ankle in the process, in what could easily be his last goal for Liverpool. A clean sheet was tainted by a Santa Cruz volley, but it only served to frustrate Jamie Carragher as another campaign of Champions League football looks to be on the way to be confirmed in the next one or two weeks.
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