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Saturday April 19, 2008 Finished Craven Cottage

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Fulham

Liverpool

  • Pennant 17’
  • Crouch 70’
  1. Reds put Fulham on brink

    Reds put Fulham on brink

    A second-string Liverpool side stamped their authority on fourth place with a 2-0 win over Fulham, who are now clinging to their Premier League status by a thread. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Fulham
    • Liverpool
    • 90'+3 And there goes the whistle! All over at Craven Cottage and Fulham are deep, deep in the mire! As for Liverpool, their grip on fourth place is all but guaranteed!
    • 90'+2 Oooh! Poor Fulham! Dempsey sees a deflected shot bounce just wide of the upright! No luck at all...
    • 90' Nevland gets on the end of a deflected Kamara cross! But His header is beaten away by Reina! It's just not the Cottagers' day!
    • 86' A quiet has descended over the Cottage... Fulham fans know their Premier League status is all but ended...
    • 82' Rafa Benitez looks to batten down the hatches as he brings on Aurelio for Voronin.
    • 81' That's it for McBride today... he's taken off and replaced by Kamara.
    • 78' Here comes another Fulham change... Murphy goes off to a great ovation from the Liverpool fans and on comes Leon Andreasson.
    • 76' Time for Fulham to make a change... Nevland for Healy...
    • 75' Murphy is played in by Healy! Must be! No! Reina pulls off a great stop to foil Fulham!
    • 72' And Rafa Benitez decides to make a change... off goes Mascherano and on comes Alonso...
    • 71' Fulham were just beginning to get back in the game a little then... surely this one's over now.
    • 70' GOAL! Crouch makes it two for Liverpool! It's a decent finish from the big man, even if the ball only just creeps under Keller's body! It's Pennant who plays the ball to Crouch, on the edge of the box... his touch takes him into the area where he pulls the trigger! 2-0!
    • 69' Dempsey gets up well again! But again his header is wide of the mark! Much better from Fulham!
    • 67' Healy is the first man to go into the referee's note book this afternoon for a challenge from behind on Mascherano...
    • 64' Dempsey! Oooh! Dempsey gets up well to meet a Bullard free kick with his forehead! But the ball flies agonisingly wide of the upright!
    • 63' The home crowd now just beginning to get a little bit frustrated with their side's performance.
    • 61' Fulham hit back at the other end, but McBride can't quite get on the end of Dempsey's cross into the middle!
    • 60' Oooh! Benayoun should score here, but his shot after good work from Lucas is blocked!
    • 55' Pennant fires a cross into the mixer! Benayoun gets something on it, but the ball flashes wide of the mark!
    • 54' Oooh! Voronin! Super effort from the Liverpool striker! He twists his body at the far post to aim a scissor kick at goal! Just over the bar this time...
    • 51' Crouch! The big man gets up well to meet a far post cross... he heads back across the face of goal towards Voronin! But Keller wins a free kick under pressure from the Ukrainian and the move breaks down.
    • 48' Mascherano and Lucas slide in to sandwich Bullard... they only succeed in crashing into each other, leaving the former prone on the floor in some discomfort...
    • 46' Liverpool have made a change at half-time... Hyypia has not appeared for the second period, but Jamie Carragher has.
    • 46' Back underway at Craven Cottage!
    • 45+2' There goes the whistle... and Fulham head in a goal down...
    • 44' One minute of added time to be added at the end of the first half.
    • 44' Murphy sends a deep cross into the Liverpool box... Hyypia takes no changes and heads behind for a Fulham corner...
    • 43' Fulham have lost the bite they displayed during the opening 15 minutes...
    • 41' Crouch stretches his legs... but Hangeland has a stride equally as long and the Fulham defender wins the ball with a well-timed challenge.
    • 38' Healy is caught inches offside as Dempsey clips a ball through to him....
    • 37' Oh, real chance for McBride! A long clearance finds the American, but his first time over-the-shoulder volley is mishit and the ball bounces kindly into Reina's arms...
    • 35' Healy sends over a teasing cross for Reina to deal with... which the Spaniard does, comfortably.
    • 34' Lovely play from Liverpool now... Pennant displays some magnificent control before laying the ball off to Voronin... the Ukrainian cuts inside and lets fly! It's over the bar this time, but super stuff from the visitors nonetheless!
    • 33' Terrible pass from Finnan... straight to Murphy, who can now launch another Fulham attack...
    • 32' That goalline clearance aside, Fulham have responded well to going a goal down...
    • 30' Oooh! Hangeland goes close twice in quick succession! First he nearly gets on the end of Bullard's free kick and then with a reflec header as the ball is played into the box again! Just wide on the second attempt!
    • 29' Healy tempts a foul out of Hyypia... and Fulham will have a free kick by the touchline...
    • 28' Crouch directs a header on target! Easy for Keller this time though...
    • 27' Oooh! So close to another for Liverpool! Voronin feeds Pennant who slides a pass across the face of goal.... Riise gets on the end of it at the far post, but his sliding effort is repelled off the line by Hughes!
    • 25' Dempsey does well to get in a cross from the left... but Hyppia's there again to clear for Liverpool.
    • 23' Healy gets the ball at his feet, 25 yards out... Davies overlaps on the right hand side, but the Northern Irishman opts to turn and shoot himself... but it's a weak effort and Reina is not troubled.
    • 22' Lucas wins a corner as Liverpool settle into their game... Pennant takes it, but Bullard is there to head clear!
    • 19' Fulham need to put the goal out of their heads, and just carry on playing the way they started...
    • 18' What a hammer blow for Fulham... the hosts were playing really well until that point... Keller could have been at fault for the goal, although it was a tremendous strike.
    • 17' GOAL! What a strike from Pennant! Lucas slips the ball through... Pennant runs on to it before hitting a super effort first time, past Keller at his near post and into the top right hand corner!
    • 14' This is better now from Liverpool.... good work from Pennant on the left results in a decent ball towards Crouch in the middle... ooh! Just wide of the upright from the big man... Keller was struggling to get to that one!
    • 12' Dempsey sends over a deep cross... Reina claims without too many problems...
    • 11' The travelling support are outsinging their hosts by a country mile so far... they're gearing up nicely for the Chelsea game...
    • 9' Another good cross from Murphy... Hyypia's there this time to clear for Liverpool, but it's all Fulham so far...
    • 7' McBride's back on, by the way... and that's massively important for Fulham...
    • 6' No way through this time, but this has been an encouraging start for Fulham...
    • 5' Here goes Healy.... ooh! Bruising challenge from Skrtel! And that'll be a free kick to Fulham, near the corner flag!
    • 3' Fulham must be full of confidence heading into this one, with some many of Liverpool's best players being rested.
    • 2' An early injury for McBride... he stays down and when he does that, you know it's serious... he'll have to go off for some treatment...
    • 1' Underway in west London!
    • - Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
    • - Liverpool: Reina, Finnan, Skrtel, Hyypia, Riise, Pennant, Lucas, Mascherano, Benayoun, Voronin, Crouch - Subs: Itandje, Torres, Aurelio, Alonso, Carragher
    • - Fulham: Keller, Stalteri, Hughes, Hangeland, Konchesky, Davies, Bullard, Murphy, Dempsey, Healy, McBride - Subs: Warner, Bocanegra, Kamara, Nevland, Andreasen
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of today's big game at Craven Cottage! It's a huge one for the hosts - will Liverpool have one eye on next week's Champions League clash with Chelsea?

  • Team Stats

    Fulham Stats Liverpool
    48% Possession 51%
    12 Shots 14
    5 Shots on target 4
    1 Saves 4
    3 Corners 3
    10 Fouls 9
    4 Offsides 1
    1 Yellow cards 0
    0 Red cards 0
    20 Tackles 33
    341 Accurate passes 370
    55 Bad passes 71

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Fulham
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Kasey Keller 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 13 1 0
      18 Aaron Hughes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 0 1
      4 Paul Konchesky 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 18 1
      17 Paul Stalteri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 0 3
      32 Brede Hangeland 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 35 8 5
      27 Danny Murphy 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 30 4 2
      21 Jimmy Bullard 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 57 9 1
      25 Simon Davies 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 19 3 1
      9 David Healy 0 2 2 4 3 1 0 13 2 0
      20 Brian McBride 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 16 3 0
      23 Clint Dempsey 0 3 0 1 2 1 0 28 1 3
      12 Tony Warner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Diomansy Kamara 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 2
      3 Carlos Bocanegra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Leon Andreasen 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 6 4 0
      15 Erik Nevland 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 1
    • Liverpool
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      25 Jose Reina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 9 0
      37 Martin Skrtel 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21 0 3
      6 John Arne Riise 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 42 16 2
      3 Steve Finnan 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 35 1 4
      4 Sami Hyypia 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16 6 1
      21 Lucas Leiva 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 52 4 8
      20 Javier Mascherano 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 41 6 8
      16 Jermaine Pennant 1 2 1 0 3 0 1 36 4 3
      11 Yossi Benayoun 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 34 6 0
      15 Peter Crouch 1 4 2 1 0 0 0 28 9 0
      10 Andrej Voronin 0 4 1 2 1 0 0 25 5 2
      14 Xabi Alonso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 2 0
      12 Fabio Aurelio 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0
      9 Fernando Torres 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      30 Charles Itandje 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      23 Jamie Carragher 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 1 2

  • Summary

    • 90'+2 Oooh! Poor Fulham! Dempsey sees a deflected shot bounce just wide of the upright! No luck at all...
    • 90' Nevland gets on the end of a deflected Kamara cross! But His header is beaten away by Reina! It's just not the Cottagers' day!
    • 75' Murphy is played in by Healy! Must be! No! Reina pulls off a great stop to foil Fulham!
    • 70' GOAL! Crouch makes it two for Liverpool! It's a decent finish from the big man, even if the ball only just creeps under Keller's body! It's Pennant who plays the ball to Crouch, on the edge of the box... his touch takes him into the area where he pulls the trigger! 2-0!
    • 69' Dempsey gets up well again! But again his header is wide of the mark! Much better from Fulham!
    • 64' Dempsey! Oooh! Dempsey gets up well to meet a Bullard free kick with his forehead! But the ball flies agonisingly wide of the upright!
    • 61' Fulham hit back at the other end, but McBride can't quite get on the end of Dempsey's cross into the middle!
    • 60' Oooh! Benayoun should score here, but his shot after good work from Lucas is blocked!
    • 55' Pennant fires a cross into the mixer! Benayoun gets something on it, but the ball flashes wide of the mark!
    • 54' Oooh! Voronin! Super effort from the Liverpool striker! He twists his body at the far post to aim a scissor kick at goal! Just over the bar this time...
    • 37' Oh, real chance for McBride! A long clearance finds the American, but his first time over-the-shoulder volley is mishit and the ball bounces kindly into Reina's arms...
    • 34' Lovely play from Liverpool now... Pennant displays some magnificent control before laying the ball off to Voronin... the Ukrainian cuts inside and lets fly! It's over the bar this time, but super stuff from the visitors nonetheless!
    • 30' Oooh! Hangeland goes close twice in quick succession! First he nearly gets on the end of Bullard's free kick and then with a reflec header as the ball is played into the box again! Just wide on the second attempt!
    • 28' Crouch directs a header on target! Easy for Keller this time though...
    • 27' Oooh! So close to another for Liverpool! Voronin feeds Pennant who slides a pass across the face of goal.... Riise gets on the end of it at the far post, but his sliding effort is repelled off the line by Hughes!
    • 17' GOAL! What a strike from Pennant! Lucas slips the ball through... Pennant runs on to it before hitting a super effort first time, past Keller at his near post and into the top right hand corner!
    • 14' This is better now from Liverpool.... good work from Pennant on the left results in a decent ball towards Crouch in the middle... ooh! Just wide of the upright from the big man... Keller was struggling to get to that one!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: M Atkinson

  • Fulham

    Manager: Roy Hodgson

    Captain: Aaron Hughes

    On the Field

    • Keller
    • Stalteri
    • Hangeland
    • Hughes
    • Konchesky
    • Dempsey
    • Bullard
    • Murphy Substitution Out (78′)
    • Davies
    • Healy Yellow Card Substitution Out (76′)
    • McBride Substitution Out (81′)

    Subs

    • Nevland Substitution In76′
    • Kamara Substitution In81′
    • Bocanegra
    • Andreasen Substitution In78′
    • Warner

    Injured

    • Pearce
    • Litmanen
    • Elliott
    • Omozusi

    Suspended

    None

  • Liverpool

    Manager: Rafa Benitez

    Captain: Sami Hyypia

    On the Field

    • Reina
    • Finnan
    • Skrtel
    • Hyypia Substitution Out (45′)
    • Riise
    • Pennant Goal
    • Mascherano Substitution Out (72′)
    • Lucas
    • Benayoun
    • Crouch Goal
    • Voronin Substitution Out (82′)

    Subs

    • Carragher Substitution In45′
    • Aurelio Substitution In82′
    • Alonso Substitution In72′
    • Torres
    • Itandje

    Injured

    • Kewell
    • Agger

    Suspended

    None