Liverpool 2 – Blackburn 1: Impressive or Impressive?

I wrote how Liverpool, or should I say Roy Hodson, were extremely fortunate to be facing a meekly Blackburn team that’s languishing around the bottom of the table — meekly because most of it’s combative players are out injured.

And of course I believed that a win was on the cards for us, but I also believe that the owner won’t be too pleased with the manner of our conceded goal by ex-Liverpoolman, El-Hadji Diouf.

You gotta give it to Roy Hodgson for having the cheeks and guts to claim the owner’s inevitable elation, oh really?

Thanks to Rover’s lack of pressing by it’s midfielders, Liverpool received plenty of invitation to test their makeshift defence, and they were sparred the horror of a thrashing only by the nearly impressive Robinson.

Also nearly impressive, yet again, was Joe Cole and Meireles’ constant running and prodding, as well as Jamie Carragher’s and Kyrgiakos’ forays into Rover’s penalty box.

You could say that the Liverpool backline was never really tested by the lone Kalinic, and the isolated Benjani, and yet we managed to concede the softest of soft goals.

The ball trickling towards the center of the penalty area, before Diouf’s shot was blocked and deflected into the goal for the equaliser, despite Reina’s palm getting a little bit of action along the way.

And before you know it, Torres drifts away from his makeshift marker, and cooly slots it past a helpless Robinson for his first goal in many, many games.

Funny, I actually couldn’t recall when his last few goals for the club were~

Ahhhh, finally a decent attacking performance as that winning sensation creeps back and you could never really argue when it’s 3 points in the bag.

Then again, with the tough-tackling, physically demanding team in the shape of Bolton next, you wonder if enough is being done here, and if we’ll slip back into our shells?

Hmmm, I can’t help but wonder why we didn’t exactly tore Rovers apart.