liverpool started the game with a positive note. kuyt had a chance early in the game but former reds keeper carson managed to keep the ball in his grasp.
everything seemed to fall apart for the reds as glen johnson had to be replaced after suffering from what to be a hamstring injury. a couple of minutes later agger had to retire early and was replaced by the young danny wilson.
two early forced substitutes somehow unsettled liverpool. west brom started to play better and were dictating the game. thanks to pepe reina who was superb by denying west brom time and time again, liverpool fc finished the first half with a 0-0 score.
and early in the second half, resulting from a corner kick taken by meireles, skrtel powers a header into the net and the reds went 1-0 up. i thought that could have settled the players nerves and start to play better football. it never happened.
west brom took that chance and started to bombard liverpool's goal. clearly pepe reina should get the motm award as he made some brilliant stops to deny west brom.
it wasn't to be soto's best game as he was out-classed by west brom's most dangerous player of the day, peter odemwingie. it resulted in two penalties rewarded to west brom which they took it gladly.
overall liverpool had a bad day. the lost of johnson and agger early in the game didn't really help either. andy
carroll was yellow carded in the first half and this affected his game as well. kuyt looked tired and spearing didn't play like he did during the game with sunderland. the only players were to perform up to expectations was pepe reina and suarez.
liverpool might blew their chance to finish top 4 but may still finish as high as 5th placing as spurs dropped 2 points.
next game will be against man city. the boys just need to go back to melwood and regroup. kenny will have to assist the injuries suffered by agger and johnson. johnson's injury may look bad and he might be away for quite a while. hope we can have gerrard back against man city. YNWA.
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