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Craig HillEPL: Liverpool was robbed!
August 20th 2007 07:45
Sat, Aug 18:
Portsmouth 3 - 1 Bolton
Birmingham 0 - 1 West Ham
Fulham 1 - 2 Middlesbrough
Reading 1 - 0 Everton
Tottenham 4 - 0 Derby
Wigan 3 - 0 Sunderland
Newcastle 0 - 0 Aston Villa
Sun, Aug 19:
Man City 1 - 0 Man Utd
Blackburn 1 - 1 Arsenal
Liverpool 1 - 1 Chelsea
SUMMARY:
Should've scored the winner on his League Anfield debut
Bolton remain rooted at the bottom of the Premiership after suffering their third consecutive loss this season (out of three matches) against Portsmouth over the weekend.
Despite taking a lead through Frenchman Nicolas Anelka, Pompey launched a fight-back which saw them blast three goals past the Wanderers through Kanu, Utaka and a Matt Taylor penalty.
In contrast, Sven Goran Eriksson maintained his dream start at Manchester City with a 1-0 victory over city rivals Manchester United.
Manchester United were toothless in attack and were duly punished by a superb strike from City's Brazilian midfielder Geovanni. England defender Micah Richards was peerless in defence and showed why he should be picked for England against Germany in the upcoming friendly on Wednesday.
Manchester City now sits proudly at the top of the table with a maximum 9-points - who would've thought?
In the clash of the weekend, Liverpool hosted Chelsea at Anfield and was robbed by an appalling decision by referee Rob Styles to award a non-existent penalty.
Liverpool dominated proceedings with 19 shots on goal (8 on target) and 56% of possession and deservedly went ahead on the 16th minute with Fernando Torres' debut goal in the Premiership.
Captain Steven Gerrard played a superb ball with the outside of his foot to the Spanish striker who remained cool under pressure from Chelsea defender Ben-Haim to beat the Israeli for pace before squeezing a right side-footed shot past Petr Cech.
The goal was greeted with rapturous applause by the Kop while Torres was swamped by his team-mates in celebration.
Forty-six minutes later, Chelsea drew level courtesy of Rob Styles and Florent Malouda.
Chelsea winger Florent Malouda had jumped between Reds defenders Steve Finnan and Jamie Carragher in the box but Finnan was bizarrely adjudged to have brought down the Frenchman.
In the ensuing penalty, Lampard cooly dispatched the ball into the bottom left corner of Liverpool's goal to restore parity for his side.
Elsewhere, wins were recorded for West Ham, Middlesbrough, Reading, Tottenham and Wigan.
[Source: YouTube]
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Comment by Chic Critique
Cheers
CC
Comment by charles
ZCars
Ponderous
Oh well, we can wait until the return leg or just knock them out of the Champions League again
Charles.
Comment by LukeS
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You can't blame Chelsea for scoring the penalty (although it just HAD to be them didn't it?!?!) or even the referee for making the admittedly awful decision but rather the dimwits at FIFA who continually vote against using video replays.
Where do you draw the line? When a bad decision costs somebody their job? When a bad decision condemns a club to relegation?
Muppets.
Comment by charles
ZCars
Ponderous
Yep, it just had to be the scum!
Evidently, the refereeing committee agreed that it wasn't a penalty and Rob Styles has since been dropped from refereeing this coming weekend.
Is this enough of a punishment? No - not in my opinion it isn't. Styles should have been given the equivalent of a straight red card which means a three match ban from refereeing.
Sadly, it won't change a thing for Liverpool. This was most certainly a case of two points loss.
Charles.