Premier League Match Report: Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-3 vs. Liverpool
A crowd of over 28,000 filled the stands to watch http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809’s first away win since October. Mind you, only the travelling Reds’ fans would have been celebrating the result, in what was an open and entertaining game of football,
a kind which Liverpool fans are not used to this season. It was Kenny Dalglish’s fourth game in; his third away from home. It wasn’t too far away from a relegation scrap as before the match Liverpool were just 4 points clear of the relegation zone, and Wolves
were occupying the 19th position.
Before the match, Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish commented on Liverpool’s ‘surprising’ away form, and how it was not of the standard expected of the historic club. Mick McCarthy, on the other hand, was hoping to exploit the Reds’
poor away record and help his team claw their way out of the relegation zone, against a team still coming to terms with the change in management.
Things didn’t start too well for the visitors as Christian Poulsen was yellow carded in the fourth minute. Wolves, spurred on by their home support, applied early pressure, forcing the Liverpool backline to work for their clean
sheet. However, as the game progressed, the Reds managed to get themselves back in the game and dictate the play.
If anything, Kenny Dalglish has introduced some of the spirit that was missing when Roy Hodgson was at the helm, and it was that same spirit that saw Liverpool close down space and apply pressure on the opposing Wolves’ team.
So much fuss had been made about misfiring striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707, but his simple tap in on 36 minutes went a long way to ease the travelling fans as well as build up his confidence. Yet while Torres took his chance with relative
comfort, credit has to be given to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Raul-Meireles-c30678, who after timing his run to perfection latched onto Christian Poulsen’s inch-perfect through pass and squared the ball to Torres.
The second half started with the Wolves hoping to emulate Everton’s start to the Merseyside derby’s second half, with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lucas-c22528 coming onto the field during the half-time interval to get an assessment from the Liverpool medical staff
on what seemed to be a dead leg.
Things did not go how Mick McCarthy would’ve hoped, with Meireles scoring an absolute blinder of a volley for his second goal in two games. Dalglish seemed to encourage Lucas and Meireles to push forward from midfield and it was
causing the Wolves backline all sorts of problems. Yet the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wolves-c40952 tried to get themselves back in the game and went on the offensive with only two players back.
Liverpool’s shaky back four was test with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pepe-Reina-c29672, marshalled his defence and Liverpool were able to soak up
the pressure. On the other end, Wolves’ goalkeeper Hennessey had nothing much to do apart from lump the ball up field every now and then.
Liverpool introduced http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dirk-Kuyt-c11348 found himself in
space on the left hand side of the penalty area and managed to divert the ball into the path of Torres, who smashed home his second goal of the match and assured that his side would go home with nothing less than all three points from the Molineux stadium.
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