Match Report 050212 at Birmingham City: No heart at all

0-2 and it was a very poor display. We never win any 50-50 battle and it was not until Carragher had a header in the 90 minutes that we have a shot on target. With such a display what we can expect is to not concede too many goals, and Dudek did his job and prevent us to concede at least 2 more goals.

We failed to reduce the gap when Everton lost to Chelsea, with 11 games to go to close a 5 point gap, time is running out. And how are we going to beat Leverkusen without Gerrard and Morientes? I really don't know.

Player Rating:
Dudek: 6 Have 2 saves to avoid us to lose 0-4, and is not to be blamed for the 2 goals.
Finnan: 6 Nowhere for the 2nd goal, and no support for attack.
Carragher: 6.5 Partly responsible for not contain Gray for the second goal, but apart from this he is one of our best player. He is probably our only player that had the determination to try to get something and had our only shot on target.
Hyypia: 5 Conceded the penalty, although it is a bit harsh. But he was unable to contain Heskey at all.
Traore: 5 Horrible performance. He lost Pennant and then his crossing lead to the 2nd goal.
Baros: 5.5 Playing at midfield is just ineffective for Milan. But even if he was moved up in 2H his display did not improved much. Just one shot off target.
Gerrard: 5 Another poor game. I think we should seiously consider to sell him as he is having bad influence to the team.
Hamann: 5 Could not run the midfield. Poor display.
Biscan: 5 Very poor display and was rightly substituted.
Riise: 5 Ineffective display.
Morientes: 5.5 I feel sorry for him, no supply at all. He had one golden opportunity but his shot was too tame.

Substitution:
Smicer: 5.5 Came out in 2H but not particular helpful at all.
Nunez: 5.5 Another poor display, and time may be running out for him now.
Pellegrino: Not enough time to impress/embarass the team.

Rafa: 5 People are questioning his decision to play 5 in the middle, and yet we seemed to be short of headcount and a few players went AWOL.

Heskey: 7.5 An expected good display from him and probably Man of the match.

Man of the match: Carragher. The only player that has the determination, and had our only shot on target.