A Bad Day in The Midlands

The second half immediately showed that Kenny has a massive rebuilding programme on his hands come the summer.  The team that emerged from the tunnel had decided to go home early.  West Brom was immediately on top and at that point gave the impression they were going to win.  Little did we know at that point, that is exactly what would happen but then sometimes several events can set these things off. 

The game itself had become a horror story to watch and if it had been for Pepe Reina, I dread to think what the final score could have been. Balls were flying into his goal area like nobody's business and nobody seemed interested enough to stop them.  Suddenly though Liverpool got a break and with the ball finally down the other end of the pitch, Skrtel's head found the ball and it went into the back of the net.

You would have thought that this would wake up the team and urge them on to score the second, but it all it did was make them even more complacent and brought the actions of Mr Liability into play.  Kyriakos did what he appears to do best at the moment and managed to go into a tackle which according to Mr Atkinson was inside the area, so a penalty was rewarded.  Well I am sorry but having watched the replay several times, I am pretty certain the tackle was outside the box and if anything should have been a free kick.  This of course brought the score level and it now needed a miracle for the one of the teams to score the winner. 

It happened and it was partially down to Kyriakos again. There was a bit of a fracas in the box and Pepe who actually came out retrieve the ball, found himself the victim of Mr Atkinson's love of West Brom when a penalty was awarded against him.  West Brom scored and as late as it was Liverpool finally woke up and decided to mount a charge on the goalmouth.  Miereles, Skrtel and Suarez had a couple of tries but the goals would not come.

To try and help the situation, three minutes from the end, Kenny took off a very tired Dirk Kuyt and substituted him with Joe Cole.  Now I am sorry, but Ngog would have been the better choice for the simple reason whatever the situation you do not rely on someone who has lost his appetite for the game.

It finished with West Brom getting the honours through extremely bad refereeing by Martin Atkinson and his linesmen. Our luck I think had run out from the moment Roy started rubbing his face.  Bad Memories were quickly brought into play and the team folded.  The Injuries to Glen and Daniel did not help either.

Kenny being Kenny in his post- match interview was as polite as ever.  When asked about the referring decisions, he simply said perhaps at the beginning of season it was agreed that the linesman and the referee could argue a point rather than agree.  He also said that he felt someone needs to tell him for the simple reason he was not the manager then.  Now Kenny did not say anything really about the team's performance except to say that the team put in a lot of hard work.  I guess when they return to Melwood whether it is tomorrow or Monday, they will feel the full force of his anger.

Kenny also spoke about the teams injuries saying that Glen appears to have tweaked a hamstring and Daniel has damaged a tendon behind his knee.  It was also at this point he brought every one up to date on stevie explaining that his absence was down to a further injury to his groin which he sustained in training yesterday. 

As our injury list appears to be in free fall, it set me thinking again about as to why there are so many? This I cannot answer at the moment but will do so in another blog this week