Monday, April 28, 2008

Match Report 080426 at Birmingham City: 4th place secured

2-2 and we are guaranteed at least 4th place now, thanks to Aston Villa. We didn't play well and was punished by letting in 2 goals. But then we wake up and never lose faith, and at the end we scored two nice goals to draw the game. The result is good enough to secure fourth place, and now we can focus on the next game.

Players Rating:
Reina: 6: No chance on both goals.
Finnan: 6.5 A normal performance.
Skrtel: 6.5 Not as impressive without Carra.
Hyypia: 6.5 An average performance.
Riise: 6.5 Try hard to recover the tragedy, and it is clear Rafa wanted to keep him fresh.
Lucas: 7 An impressive performance.
Plessis: 7 Another solid display.
Pennant: 7.5 Did well and so no mercy to his former Club.
Voronin: 7 Created the first goal.
Benayoun: 8 Almost grabbed us the point single hand.
Crouch: 7.5 Cool finishing.

Substitution:
Insua: 6.5 A nice performance.

Rafa: 6.5 Would be happy about the spirit to come back from two down.

Birmingham City: 6.5 Shown us why they may need to relegated by committing some suicial errors.

Man of the Match: Benayoun. Ready to turn it around at Chelsea.

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