5:40pm: "The misfortune probable deputy for Rafa?" muses Guy Miri. "That would be Sammy Lee." Meanwhile, here are the line-ups from Ukraine.
Shakhtar Donetsk: Pyatov, Srna, Kucher, Rakitskiy, Rat,Hubschman, Fernandinho, Ilsinho, Jadson, Willian, Luiz Adriano.Subs: Tetenko, Lewandowski, Gai, Douglas Costa, Gladkyy,Kravchenko, Ischenko.
Fulham: Schwarzer, Baird, Hangeland, Hughes, Kelly, Duff,Murphy, Etuhu, Davies, Gera, Zamora. Subs: Zuberbuhler, Nevland, Riise, Smalling, Greening, Elm, Marsh-Brown.
Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)
5:48pm: Paul Ince has arrived in an ESPN college of music hitherto assigned by Ray Stubbs and Clive Allen. "Sorry I"m late," he says. "The trade was terrible." Sort it out, Guv"nor!
5:50pm: Rafa has usually been interviewed on TV and disclosed that Glen Johnson will be at the at the at the at the back of of of of in movement subsequent week. He pronounced a little alternative things as well but I"ve already lost them.
5:52pm: TV has cut to commercial. The initial one is for a car, that reminds of a subject that I would similar to an answer to. Why do they contend the cost of the the car in digits rather than a finish number, ie. ONE FIVE NINE NINE NINE rather than fifteen thousand 9 hundred and ninety 9 pounds? Is it given they"re profitable for the ad by-the-second and it"s quicker that way? Or is it given they think the initial proceed creates it receptive to advice cheaper?
5:55pm: "As i pondered the misfortune probable deputy for Rafa," starts Connor Hurley. "Paul Ince ambled in to the college of music ..."
5:57pm: An early feat for Liverpool as Steve Gerrard wins the toss - is there no finish to Captain Marvel"s heroics? "I consternation if "sorry I"m late, the trade was terrrible" was what Paul Ince pronounced to Duncan Ferguson after this exchange?" coughs Mac Millings. Apologising to Duncan Ferguson is regularly a correct option, I"d suggest.
1 min: The Romanians flog off and instantaly foot the turn in to touch.
2 mins: Apostol loftsw a freekick in to the Liverpool box from 40 yards, Carragher heads it out of the box, but usually as far as Frunza, who sends a in accord with bid spinning over the bar.
4 mins: Fine save by Arlauskis, from a standard Gerrard swirler from twenty yards. It was Lucas, would you believe, who had picked out his captain with a poignant low pass from midfield.
6 mins: Frunzal fires a dilemma towards Fernandes at the neat post, but the Guinean"s shot is wayward.
8 mins: Galamaz slides in to forestall babel from latching onto to a prolonged turn in to the left channel from Insua. On an separate note, assumingly during last night"s press conference, Romanian reporters were giving Benitez guff about his weight. Could it be that we have found a press pack even some-more monster than the English one?
10 mins: It is, I bewail to surprise you, a diversion being played at a unequivocally walking pace. Unirea do try to step things up a bit when they have the ball, but Liverpool have had majority receive and clearly are calm to, shall we say, set up patiently.
12 mins: Skrtel heads a dilemma transparent at the nearby post.
13 mins: The word from Donestsk, by the way, is that Fulham are being all overshoot and a home idea looks unavoidable ...
15 mins: Liverpool have outlayed the last integrate of mins knocking the turn around in the Romanian half but melancholy to penetrate. The gait is delayed and there is occasionally most options for the man on the ball. All a bit predictable, then.
17 mins: This is branch in to a tiresome exam of continuation for spectators ...
19 mins: We have action! Onofras crept at the at the at the at the back of of of of the Liverpool counterclaim to collect up a prolonged turn over the top, but Carragher got at the at the at the at the back of of of of well to hang it at the at the at the at the back of of of of for a corner.
GOAL! Unirea 1-0 Liverpool (Fernandes 19") Well that"s spiced things up! It was a elementary goal, well taken. Fernandes rose unmarked about 10 yards out to send a absolute header in to the net.
20 mins: A postponement in fool around as a Unirea player receives diagnosis after aggressive Babel"s bend with his jaw. At slightest that"s one intrepretation, and not one that the ref shares: he"s requisitioned Babel. "I"d love to see "Arry Redknapp take assign of Liverpool," chortles John T. "Just to watch him blow 40 mil to move at the at the at the at the back of of of of Crouch and Keane." How about Redknapp"s former partner at Bournemouth, Tony Pulis? At slightest that wouldn"t inhere a in advance shift of personification style.
23 mins: Gerrard curls a infamous freekick towards the at the at the at the at the back of of of of post, but the screw punches it clear. "Ye gods this is grave fare," wails Phil Sawyer. "I feel similar to whistling in scorn myself, and I"m a Liverpool supporter. Do Benitez"s precision sessions simply engage creation the players watch lots and lots of videos of Ray Wilkins flitting it sideways?"
24 mins: Another freekick for Liverpool, whilst Unirea usually have 10 players on the representation given Galamaz is injured. Gerrard"s smoothness is appalling. "I"ve been disappointed," mourns Chris Waddle on ESPN. "Liverpool are honourable what they get here." He"s not wrong, folks.
26 mins: Decent receive fool around from Liverpool but with 10 Unirea players in front of them at all time they destroy to have most inroads, and as shortly as they do get nearby the home box, Ngog commits a reticent tainted to present a freekick to the opposition. That opposition, by the way, have usually had to repalce their captain, Galamaz hobbling off to be transposed by Mehmedovic.
29 mins: Onofras requisitioned for bringing down Babel after the winger had skipped past him. I have that the 76000th freekick of this fragmented game.
GOAL! Unirea 1-1 Liverpool (Mascherano 30") Carragher chugged down the right and sent a low cranky over the at the at the at the at the back of of of of post. Gerrard headed it at the at the at the at the back of of of of to Babel, whose reactions were indolent and authorised Unirea to hasten it out to the dilemma of the box. Mascherano surged on to it and spanked it in to the net!
32 mins: Nice fool around by Babel there. He all flummoxed his pen to wobble his proceed in to the box, but after his pass Ngog was swarming out. Meanwhile, I"m told that Mark Schwarzer is personification a stormer in Ukraine, where Fulham are sticking on to their first-leg lead.
33 mins: Fernandes requisitioned for barging in to the at the at the at the at the back of of of of of Ngog.
35 mins: With a handicapped bobbler from 35 yards, gerrard presents the turn to Arlauskis.
37 mins: Onofras"s shot from twenty yards is deflected over by Skrtel. Another dilemma for Liverpool to defend, afterwards ...
37 mins: Again the dilemma provokes chaos! Ngog longed for it at the nearby post and it bounced opposite the face of idea prior to Insua put it at the at the at the at the back of of of of for an additional one. This time Reina came to understanding with it, punching it well clear.
37 mins: Paduretu shows grand technique to carry out a 25-yard volley, perfectionist a decent save from Reina. The screw looked less crafty from the indirect corner, punching it at the at the at the at the back of of of of for nonetheless an additional one.
OH I SAY! Shakhtar 0-1 Fulham (Hangeland 33")
GOAL! Unirea 1-2 Liverpool (Babel 40") He"s played well so far and that was a poetic finish from 7 yards. He tranquil a Gerrard freekick beautifully and afterwards right afar whacked the turn in to the net.
43 mins: Frunza wallops the turn over the club from twenty yards. "Your subject as to who"s the misfortune chairman to take over the manager"s pursuit at Liverpool is an easy one," reckons Phil Sawyer. "Step forward, John Barnes. And afterwards after eleven true waste step at the at the at the at the back of of of of again."
44 mins: Confusion in the home counterclaim as Fernandes and Arlauskis leave an Insua cranky to each other. If there had been a Liverpool player on hand, he would have had an dull idea to target it. But there wasn"t. "Hello from Dubai!" booms Mike Poole. "I am examination this in the Falkland Islands." Is that a fun I don"t get? Or is Mike Poole unequivocally unequivocally confused?
45 mins: In Italy, dual former Liverpool players have scored: Riise for Roma, and Djibril Cisse for Panathinaikos, who lead 2-1.
45+1 mins: Freekick to Unirea as Carragher clumsily crashes in to Frunza. Paduretu curls it in, Insua heads out and Onofras"s bombardment from twenty yards dribbles wide.
Half-time: It would take (a) a spectacle (b) inconceivable clumsy or (c) sincere crime for Liverpool not to win this now. "Could it be that the Dubai/Falklands man is in Dubai on the Falkland Islands in that growth of synthetic islands imitative the countries of the world?" quizzes Gareth Evans. "I think that"s in Dubai, uncertain if there is a Falklands in that development, as from a scale point of perspective it could be rather small."
"That Mascherano idea ..." blurts Nath Jones. "... is the footballing countenance of the gigantic gorilla theorem."
46 mins: The second half is underneath way. Hang on to your hats. Oh yes.
47 mins: Great possibility for Unirea! Paduretu crossed easily to Onofras, who headed it at the at the at the at the back of of of of in to the risk zone. Apostol arrived at speed to crack it ... in to the sidenetting from 10 yards!
49 mins: A Gerrard bid trickles wide. "I"d theory that Falklands bloke is assured that the oil that has presumably been found down there is going to have them all millionaires," explains Mark Taylor. "Then they can buy the tea shop."
52 mins: Unirea players approximate the ref to criticism agaisnt his preference to give Liverpool a freekick usually outward the box for handball. The replay shows the ref was right. The screw pushes Gerrard"s low expostulate around the post.
54 mins: Much happening in the Unirea box as they onslaught to transparent a Benayoun corner. Eventually they hasten it out for an additional one, but prior to it can be taken Arlauskis hurtles over to the ref to protest about something or other, and cops a yellow card. "I hold there are plans for British oil companies to account the construction of islands nearby the Falklands," baahs Ian Copestake. "They will be in the figure of sheep."
55 mins: Unirea change: Paraschiv off, Ricardo Gomes on.
GOAL! Unirea 1-3 Liverpool (Gerrard 57") Benayoun done it with one of his rolling runs in to the box. Then he slipped the turn to Gerrard, who slammed it in to the net with the assist of a deflection.
59 mins: There is a peace in proceedings. Uefa don"t yield stats, but I have that eight lulls in the compare so far.
61 mins: Card-magnet Mascherano attracts an additional yellow one, inevitably.
62 mins: Liverpool change: Carragher off, Kelly on. Unirea change: Onofras off, Semedo on.
63 mins: Apparently Fulham are well in assign of the diversion in Ukraine now, which, if true, is extraordinary.
64 mins: Skrtel rolls around in viewable agonise following a full-blooded but satisfactory plea with Semedo. He"s clutching his knee ...
66 mins: Liverpool change: Skrtel off, Kyrgiakos on. It seems it"s the Slovakian"s ankle, rather than his knee, that the problem. "Are Liverpool winning given they are personification well (like they did in their run last season)or does it usually appear that the antithesis isn"t up for it?" asks John Kim. "As aLiverpool supporter, it"s been unpleasant to watch them this season. Thescoreline gives me hope, but it sounds similar to they aren"t unequivocally lighting the representation on fire." They are not definitely dominating, but may be they could if they longed for to, given they are manifestly higher to their eager but unequivocally singular hosts. Liverpool are personification sufficiently.
69 mins: Semedo scurries in to the box and slips the turn to Marinescu, whos shot on the spin is shut off by Agger.
70 mins: A energetic genocide clap from the Romanians: they"re requesting a aimless sort of vigour to the Liverpool goal, insofar as the turn is pinging around the box a bit. Nothing to warning Reina so far, though.
GOAL! Shakhtar 1-1 Fulham (Jadson 69") Fulham lead 3-2 on aggregate.
73 mins: Liverpool are simply going by the motions now, wakeful that their thoroughfare to the subsequent turn is secure.
75 mins: Boooooring. "Rafa"s replacement?" starts Daniel McSweeney. "For his pointed proceed to the reasoned halftime address, certainly it"s time to give John Sitton a shot." And if he doesn"t wish the Anfield gig, maybe we could get him to do an mbm?
78 mins: Liverpool change: Benayoun off, Aurelio on. "You appear to be apologising for the diversion and suggesting we"ll all leave if it is boring," records Robin Hazlehurst. "But we can"t see how bad it looks and are happy to stay with your explanation usually for the discuss (or craic even), given if you report the diversion as a genuine cracker everybody will dirt with grass off to the beer hall to watch it. I"d have thought a tedious diversion is great for you, or at slightest for your trade figures." Exactly. That"s given I haven"t told you that, in reality, this is a thriller and the measure is 17-13.
80 mins: Freekick to Unirea given Insua hauled at the at the at the at the back of of of of Semedo. Said freekick is privileged in mediocre fashion. "I"m happy Liverpool are winning," reveals Brian Cruickshank. "But let"s not get carried away. This is , erm, Romania not Roma. This outing by the inlet of the Europa SHOULD BE a humbling experince that we sense and grow from." You think Roma would be some-more daunting? They"re now losing 3-2 at home to a Djibril Cissse-inspired Panathinaikos .... and 6-4 on aggregate.
82 mins: Liverpool rumble brazen with a little decent proceed play, in that Babel was prominent. His opening has probably been the msot enlivening underline of this dusk for Liverpool. The move ended, by the way, with an false cranky from Insua.
85 mins: Gomes crosses from the left. Bilasco meets it from close range, carrying got the burst on Agger, and Reina creates a great automatic save. Insua gets to the miscarry firstr to frustrate Paduretu.
87 mins: Lucas has been neat tonight, and even instituted a integrate of attacks. There. Another positive.Not that that"s expected to stir Ian Edgar. "This guy Babel has been horrible given we paid foolish income for him," whines Ian. "His attempts to leave have unsuccessful and unexpected he"s carrying a integrate of great games? I consternation when his stipulate is due for renewal? Sooner he goes the better. At slightest Riera gives 100% each time."
90 mins: Babel, as if stung by Ian Edgar oppressive verdict, lopes down the right and plays in Gerrard, who bangs off a shot from a parsimonious angle, forcing a easy save from the keeper.
Full-time: After tardy fortifying from a dilemma lead to them descending at the at the at the at the back of of of of on the night, Liverpool changed up a gear, slightly, to re-assert their supremacy and journey to victory. The most maligned Babel and Lucas played well, as did Gerrard, and alternative than that it was an definitely mediocre event. Fulham, by contrast, are staid to lift off one of the most appropriate formula in their story ... they"re in to blocking time in Ukraine, and still heading the holders. "Just to couner what Ian Edgar said," chips in Grame Thorn usually in time. "I was at the home diversion last week and Riera proposed but had no certainty to run with the turn - each time he got the ball, his thought was to pass retrograde or sideways. At slightest when Babel came on he ran with the turn (and set up the goal, no less)."
Full-time in Ukraine: Fulham are through! On the down side, Danny Murphy won"t underline in the subsequent turn given he got himself sent off in the last minute. And on that note, goodbye.
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