January 01, 2005

Liverpool 0 Chelsea 1

Unlucky is the only word to sum up this game. I thought we played well in the first half, putting pressure on Chelsea and keeping Lampard very quiet. Unfortunately, Alonso had to be substituted due to an ankle injury and that changed the flow of the game. The introduction of Nunez proved ineffective. Gerrard had to play alittle backward and Garcia could not link well with Pongolle. We missed a few opportunities...Garcia was the main culprit again.

Traore played well and boy... he is growing with confidence doing those turnings and back flips. Well done Traore. Chelsea were lucky with that goal. In fact it took a deflection off Finnan (if i'm not wrong). Dudek played well in front of the goalmouth. He cannot be blame for that goal. Hyypia was poor today, kept banging into Carragher and got caught a few times. Thank god Carragher marshalled the defence well. Garcia faded towards the end of the match... should have introduce Mellor earlier. But nice tactics from Rafa at the start. It was that unfortunate incident that cause us the game. If Alonso continue playing, i'm sure the result will be different. The main concern now is Alonso's and Riise's injury. Hope they will be fine as we cant afford anymore players on the injury list.

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