Liverpool 6-1 Brighton Match Report
Liverpool warmed up for their trip to Wembley in next
Sunday’s Carling Cup final in emphatic style as they put Championship side
Brighton to the sword in the 5th round of the FA Cup. The sides had
already met in the Carling Cup earlier this season, with Liverpool winning 2-1
in that tie. But Liverpool looked greedy for another trip to Wembley by
brushing Brighton aside and eyeing up a home tie against Stoke City in the
quarter-final.
The
Team
Dalglish fielded a strong team against Brighton with
Carragher coming back into the side alongside Gerrard, Suarez and Carroll, who
were starting a match for the first time together. Dalglish showed that he was
not going to take Poyet’s side lightly with the side he sent out to win a place
in the quarter final.
The
Match
Liverpool got off to
a great start with Martin Skrtel heading home Gerrard corner inside five
minutes, but the visitors responded with LuaLua blasting a 25 yard free-kick
past Pepe Reina. Liverpool regained the lead seconds before half-time after
Bridcutt deflected a goal line clearance into his own net from a Glen Johnson
header.
Liverpool was buoyed going into the second half with the
lead, and they added another in the 57th minute when Andy Carroll fired
home a Downing cutback with his left foot. Liverpool made it 4-1 when the
unlucky Bridcutt scored his second own goal when trying to keep out a Gerrard
effort. Amazingly Liverpool’s fifth goal was from another Brighton player when
Dunk tried to clear after some ball juggling, only to send the ball over his
own goal line.
Suarez missed a penalty late on after Kuyt had been brought
down, but the Liverpool striker was not to be denied as he headed in a sixth
goal for the home side late on. This was Liverpool’s biggest win of the season
and a victory that will certainly boost their confidence with important games
coming up.
After the match Kenny Dalglish showed how pleased he was
with his team’s goals tally when he said “Someone said we had 15 attempts on
target. We’ve said we’d like to get our conversion rate up and today that’s not
a bad return.”
Summary
Great to see Dalglish send out a strong team and not
underestimating Brighton. We struggled a bit the first half, although we still
had more of the play. But scoring the second goal just before half-time really
sent us on our way, although we did get plenty of help scoring wise from
Brighton defenders who were prolific in front of goal. Played some great stuff
second half and brilliant to see Carroll and Suarez scoring. I thought Downing
played really well, especially after receiving plenty of criticism recently. A
home draw against Stoke now to look forward to in the quarter finals and hopefully
followed by another trip to Wembley.
Man Of The Match- Carroll – caused mayhem in the Brighton
defence all day and took his goal brilliantly.
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