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Stephen Warnock talks to Liverpoolfc.tv about his season so far, his eagerness to play more games, his life away from Anfield and much more in our latest Big Interview.  


  
How has the season gone for you on a personal level?
  
It started off very well. I was in the team at the beginning of the season which was great and things were going really well. I was called into the England squad which was a bit unexpected but then I fell out of the team and the squad a bit. I got back in again and was then out again. It's been that sort of a stop-start season and so a bit frustrating for me.
  
Did you hope to play more games than you have done?
  
When I started the season in the side I really thought I could cement my place and make it my own. That's what I planned to do when I looked ahead to the season during the summer and I knew I was capable of doing it. I am disappointed I haven't played more but the manager has his options and that's what he chooses to do.
  
The boss likes to rotate things so there are only a select few players at the club who will play week in and week out. He tries to freshen things up a bit from game to game so it will be hard to keep a place over an extended period but from your own point of view you have to make it as difficult as possible for him to leave you out.
  
Some fans still think of you as a young player, but as a 24 year old do you feel like an experienced first teamer now?
  
I'm not a young lad anymore. Because everyone knows I have come up through the academy they still might see me as a younger player. They perhaps forget that I have missed a few years of my career through injury and have also been out on loan. I want to play as regularly as possible and when I do get my chance I have to take it. I know what I have to do.
  
Of the last ten games you've started three, been on the bench for three and been left out for the other four. How difficult is it to not know from one week to the next what your involvement is going to be?
  
It's frustrating but I'm not the only one who has to deal with it. When my name's not in the squad then I am very disappointed but it just makes me more determined to work even harder again in the next training session and for the next week to make sure I'm in the squad for the next game. I always want to prove myself. That's the way I am and that's the way it's got to be. As frustrating as it is to not know if you'll be involved, I've learned to deal with it. I don't like it at all because I want to be playing, that's just the kind of person I am. Some people might be satisfied with it and say 'ok' and just go home but it annoys me. I go home frustrated and that's the way I think it should be.
  
I've started against Benfica and Arsenal over the last few weeks so that tells me the manager knows he can count on me for the big matches. That's a boost.
  
When you're not a regular is the pressure on you even more to perform when you do play?
  
Of course because I want to prove I am good enough to be in the squad every week. I don't want the manager to be thinking I'm not ready or fit enough to be playing because I haven't played in the previous games.
  
It's difficult to come to terms with playing one week and not the next but we've been with the manager for almost two seasons now and we do know his way of doing things. Results have shown that he does it for the right reasons and I can't argue with that.
  
You received a lot of praise after your performance as a left wing back at Newcastle recently - was that your best display this season?
  
I don't know if it was my best performance. Maybe it was. It worked well on the day for the team and the system we were playing. Myself, Daniel Agger and Harry Kewell played well together and it was enjoyable to be involved in such a good overall team display. I just give my best every time I play and hope it's good enough. If sometimes I fall short then I'll keep working and keep trying.
  
Do you like the left wing back role?
  
It means a lot of running and you have to be very fit to do it. After about four or five games you get to understand when to go forward and not to go forward. You can go forward too much and tire yourself out. I really enjoyed it at Newcastle because we attacked a lot and I love getting forward.
  
When you read that the club are keen to sign left back Fabio Aurelio in the summer, how does that make you feel?
  
This club is always going to sign players and there's always going to be competition here. Last summer we signed Bolo Zenden and the players on the left knew he was another player we'd have to compete with. If another left back comes in during the summer and it means I have to raise my game and do my best then that's fine. I'm sure John Arne Riise, Djimi Traore and Harry Kewell are thinking the same as well because I think Aurelio can also play in the midfield. If his arrival brings the best out of every player down that left side then it can only benefit us.
  

Warnock on speculation
At the end of the day it's the manager's decision and he has to decide what to do for the future of the club. It's out of my hands who he signs, but it just means that I have to prove I'm better than the player who is coming in. I want to prove I'm good enough to earn the right to play in the side either with the new player or instead of them.
I don't look at the papers every day and worry about what the speculation is going to be or what the manager is going to do. I just concentrate on turning up for training and proving I'm good enough.
So it doesn't worry you that the manager could be bringing in a player he knows very well who plays in the same position as you?
  
I thrive on that pressure and that challenge. That's the only way you can react. If you have a defeated mentality straightaway then you're not going to get anywhere. The more competition you have then the more you should work to improve as a player.
  
Does transfer speculation ever bother you?
  
At the end of the day it's the manager's decision and he has to decide what to do for the future of the club. It's out of my hands who he signs, but it just means that I have to show I'm better than the player who is coming in. I want to prove I'm good enough to earn the right to play in the side either with the new player or instead of them.
I don't look at the papers every day and worry about what the speculation is going to be or what the manager is going to do. I just concentrate on turning up for training and showing the boss I'm good enough.
  
How much has Rafa improved you as a player?
  
A great deal. It's not just me who's improved, I think everyone in the squad would say he's had a big influence on their game. The work he does with you is one-on-one at times and if he sees something wrong in a game then he will talk with you and work with you to put it right. The team is better as a whole now. There's more understanding of what we need to do and we all understand our roles in the team. He knows the strengths of everyone's game and he tries to make the most of them.
  
Luis Garcia said in a recent interview that you're the hardest working trainer at the club…
  
I love training because I know I'm lucky to be here and I want to enjoy it as much as I can while I am here. I've missed so much football because of injury problems and that period of my career when I was out for long periods drove my crazy because I couldn't even train.
  
Does the fact you have lost a number of years to your career make you appreciate the game even more?
  
Yes, definitely. There are players who don't come back from the injuries I've had. I've been fortunate to be at a club like Liverpool where I've received one hundred per cent backing. There aren't many clubs who would give you a professional contract while you're lying on a hospital bed waiting to go in for an operation. We've got fantastic facilities here and to be honest if I was with a lower league club then I don't think I'd have come back to play football again.
  
At least the injuries came when you were a youngster still with plenty of years ahead of you in football…
  
Yes, on one hand it was good because I had a lot of years ahead of me if I came back but on the other hand when you get injuries like I had at such a young age it could finish you off. You might not be mature enough to realise what is going on and, because you have a lot of time on your hands as you go through your rehabilitation, you could make wrong decisions and go the wrong way.
  
How much of a boost was it to win a call-up to the England squad earlier in the season?
  
It was fantastic. It came at a time when I wasn't really expecting it so it was a big surprise. It was great to be in and around the squad, to see what goes on and be involved. Whenever England play you always support them and when you're a kid you dream of being called up into the squad. It was a massive experience and to train with players like Rooney, Lampard and the rest was fantastic.
  
Do you have any hopes of going to Germany with the England squad?
  
I need to be playing for Liverpool. That's been proven. You need to be playing on a regular basis for your club to have a chance of going to the finals and I haven't been so I don't have any hopes of being in the England squad.
  
What will you do in the summer if you're not representing your country?
  
It's been a long season so it'll be nice to rest. My wife is pregnant at the moment so I don't know what we'll be doing. She'll be close to 30 weeks at the end of the season so I don't know if we'll be able to go abroad or not. I'll probably put my feet up and enjoy myself.

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You're a Liverpool footballer and so are very well known - but we never see you in the papers…
  
I'm not as famous as the other players so it's different for me. Because of where I live my life is a lot quieter and that's the way I like it. I don't socialise too much in Liverpool, I prefer to stay where I'm from with people I know and with people I know I can trust. I like to be with my family and friends.
  
How do you spend your time away from football?
  
I'm laid back and not the type to go out shopping. I'll sometimes play a game of golf with my mates or with people from the club.
  
Birmingham owner David Sullivan said this week that one of the reasons he doesn't like footballers is because they don't do enough in the community…
  
It's important for footballers to play their part. We're seen as role models. Everyone dreams of being a footballer or of meeting footballers. If you doing something small means something big for a supporter then great. A small amount of time is nothing for us to give and yet it can make someone happy. I do as much as I can for the club and also around where I live.
  
When did you get married?
  
Last summer, in June.
  
No celebrity magazine picture deals…
  
[laughs] No, that isn't my style at all.
  
So do people around where you live see you as Stephen Warnock the local lad and not Stephen Warnock the Liverpool footballer?
  

Warnock on Fowler return
I was growing up when Robbie Fowler was coming onto the scene, he was the in thing and everyone was talking about him. Now I train with him every day and it's amazing.
I was delighted when he came back. He's a legend at the club and I'm still in awe of him now. Everyone at the club is really pleased that he's with us again and everyone holds him in the highest regard.
Exactly. People from my area are all absolutely mad about football and when I see them they're always asking me how everyone is at the club. "How's Gerrard", "How's Carra" etc. You see how much this club means to them on a daily basis.
  
As a Liverpool fan, you know what it's like to be on the other side of the fence…
  
Yes, I used to worship the likes of Ian Rush and John Barnes. When I met them it was unbelievable. I was growing up when Robbie Fowler was coming onto the scene, he was the in thing and everyone was talking about him. Now I train with him every day and it's amazing.
  
So how did you feel when he signed for Liverpool again?
  
I was delighted when he came back. He's a legend at the club and I'm still in awe of him now. Everyone at the club is really pleased that he's with us again and everyone holds him in the highest regard.
  
Has this season been one of progress for Liverpool?
  
It has been a season of progress but we'll certainly look back at the end of it to certain games where we have dropped silly points. Had we not done that then we'd be a lot closer. We'll be disappointed with how we went out of Europe, of course.
We're a better team than our points tally shows in the league but every club will look back and have similar complaints about games here and there where points were dropped. We know we're getting there, we're pushing forward and going in the right direction.
  
Bearing in mind we've spoken about the fact you're not a regular in the side, do you worry that one day the manager might say to you that you're no longer a part of his plans?
  
Yes, the future is always a worry and so that's why I train as hard as I can for every minute of every session. It's been drilled into me from day one at the academy that you should never fail for the lack of trying and you should only ever fail for not being good enough. If it comes to the point where they say to me 'you're not good enough' then fair enough, I can hold my hands up and say I've given it my all and that's fine by me. I'll never fail for the lack of trying.
  
But you must be confident that won't happen…
  
Of course I am. If you have no confidence in yourself then you're not going to go very far. I want to play in more games but that's the same for everyone at the club. The manager always says players will only play a certain amount of games, some will be used in 20, others in 30 and so on. That's the way he plays things and that's fine so long as you know it's going to happen.
  
And 30 games at Liverpool must be a better option than 50 with another club..
  
Without a doubt because you play Champions League football here at the best club in Europe. I'm loving life here and I want to stay for as long as possible.

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The Liverpool reserve team to face Middlesbrough at the Academy tonight (kick-off 7pm) shows two changes to the eleven that started last Thursday's 1-1 draw against Aston Villa.  
Calum Woods replaces James Smith and Paul Anderson is back in place of Ramon Calliste.

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The Liverpool manager is fluent in the language of the beautiful game, as Champions magazine recently discovered...  
Not for the first time, Rafael Benítez picks up his authorised biography, towards which he is politely ambivalent, and scours its pages. "The other day I was surprised. I saw an old photo and I said to my wife..." His voice trails off as he flicks backwards and forwards through the relevant chapter. "Is the photo here? Yes, this one."
  
It's a shot of Real Madrid's Under-18 side from season 1986/87. He traces his finger from left to right across the players in the back row then their crouching team-mates at the front, and starts to recite. "I said to her: 1.82, 1.84, 1.82, 1.79, 1.87, 1.76, 1.88, 1.84, 1.86, 1.79, 1.68, 1.72, 1.74, 1.69, 1.78, 1.73, 1.68."
  
These are the individual heights, in metres, of a group of teenagers that he coached almost 20 years ago. He closes the book, fingers strumming the table top, and grins, tickled not so much by the accuracy of his memory as its absurdity. "I live for football, no?"
  
He said as much in his first interview with Champions at the start of 2005 (issue 9), conceding that he thought "too much about football" while promising that he would "fight to win the Champions League, if the future allows me to do that, because I want to win the greatest title there is."
  
Obsession clearly has its rewards, however short-lived. Since that unreal night in Istanbul, the manager of the reigning European champions has permitted himself two holidays with his wife Montse, consisting of weekends in Edinburgh and the Lake District. When the couple married in 1998, the story goes that they spent their honeymoon in Italy just so Benítez could visit AC Milan’s famous sports complex. Fitting, then, that he was destined to manage a club whose legendary boss Bill Shankly once took his own bride Nessie to watch Huddersfield Town reserves.
  
Liverpool have granted only a few minutes with Benítez, but the interview lasts the best part of an hour. The players are on international duty and the training ground is quiet. For Rafa, this is as good an excuse as any to talk shop.


Rafael Benítez's half-time team talk in Istanbul. By the man himself...

"It was difficult, really difficult. We had a plan. We started the game, conceded the first goal and Harry Kewell was injured. OK, we needed to change the plan. Then we conceded the second goal and I was thinking about half-time, how to change the game. Right away we conceded the third. And now, I was thinking I needed to change my notes!

"I walked to the changing room, hearing all the fans, and I said to the players, 'We need to work hard for these people. If we score a goal, maybe things will change.' Then I decided to change the system. I said, 'Traore, get showered. And Didi [Hamann], get ready. We will play 3-4-2-1. This is the idea, OK? Come on, boys [claps]. Let's start working.'

"Then I turned and Steve Finnan was on the treatment table. And [physio] Dave Galley said we'd have to change Finnan in the second half. I thought, we've made one change, Smicer for Kewell in the first half. Now, Hamann for Traore and we need to change Finnan maybe in 20 minutes. So I said, 'Traore, you're back on. Finnan, get to the shower.' Finnan was disappointed, but Traore was ready.

"I went to the blackboard and I was thinking, OK, I've got Smicer as a right winger, but he's not the best getting back to defend and we've lost Finnan. So I said, 'We will use Cissé in attack, on the left.' But they said, 'Hang on, boss, we've got 12 players on the pitch.' Forget Cissé! I already had Luis García as a second striker, so I switched Gerrard to right-back.

“Then the physio said, 'We've got one minute to change things.' So we changed the players, but the system was the same: 3-4-2-1. We had good luck because we scored early. If we scored again soon, they would go down. We did and then we scored again. Shevchenko had that chance and we had a bit of good luck...but we had worked to get it. I always knew winning the Champions League would be difficult. But my idea is to think about games, not trophies."

He recalls the grown-ups who'd scold him for playing for two hours after school every day; his trial as a youngster for Real Madrid when he starred in a mini-tournament for a team called Grosso in honour of the prolific goalscorer who succeeded Alfrédo Di Stefano in the mid 1960s; the repartee with the chairman at the first club he managed, and the player who got him fired. All related in that soft, familiar timbre with touches of humour that transcend his nagging informality with the English language and its still more peculiar football vernacular.
  
"At Valladolid we played really good football and the chairman said to me, 'We've got such confidence in you.' Three times he said that to me and he offers me a new contract over lunch. The next week, over lunch again, he says, 'Talk with your agent, we want to renew the deal because we're so happy.' I say, 'And what if we lose to Celta Vigo next week?' 'No problem,' he says, 'I'll still renew it.'"
  
Benítez is fluent in body language, particularly when he wants his point to be crystal clear. The rest of this anecdote can't be told sitting down, so in his red tracksuit he stands up to re-enact a long-ago set-piece. "OK, we are winning 1-0 against Celta Vigo. And we have one player [Croatian midfielder Alojsa Asanovic] who never came back to defend corners. He was the most expensive player we bought, but he never arrived. There was a corner and for once he comes back to defend it. He pushes their striker [simulates a clumsy challenge], gives away a penalty and they score. The next game we lose to Valencia and I'm sacked."
  
He returns to his seat and smiles again. "This is football. But the most important thing is to learn. In Spain we say that if you are not sacked, you are not a manager."
  
Benítez has another favourite Spanish proverb: luck is in love with hard work. Fortune as a residue of design, or a dividend of sweat. "I think always that you need a little bit of good luck," shrugs Benítez. "But if you don't work hard, you cannot go to a cup final and win just with good luck. There must be something behind it."
  
The something behind Liverpool's miraculous comeback against Milan last May has its roots in a passion for defying the odds that has defined Rafa's career so far. Resources have been finite to varying degrees at every club he has managed, but he's sought not only to adapt to adversity but overcome it through a combination of relentless industry, meticulous analysis and outright ingenuity, driven by absolute belief in his methods. A severed lateral knee ligament prevented him from realising his full potential as a footballer.
  
In the mid 1990s, as a youth and reserve-team coach at Real Madrid, he seemed to have a clear path to the top job until Jorge Valdano was appointed as manager and duly changed the regime. Real Valladolid and Osasuna both dismissed Benítez abruptly. His luck changed with tiny Extramadura, who enjoyed a short but sweet season in the top flight, then at Tenerife, the team he led back to the First Division. No sooner had he joined Valencia, a club traumatised by two successive Champions League final defeats, than their star Gaizka Mendieta was sold to Lazio. Benítez refused to blink, and no doubt he would have accepted Steven Gerrard’s vaunted move from Liverpool to Chelsea last summer with the same cool fatalism. Within 12 months, Valencia would win their first league title for more than 30 years.
  
"I arrived there as a young manager without a big CV. People were saying, 'He's too young, he has no experience.' We won the league, amazing. And then [the board] say, 'You have good team, good manager.' Good enough to do nothing. So they didn't change anything, they didn't sign any new players and the next season we finished fifth. We were focused on the Champions League, but lost to Milan.
  
"The next year, we changed three or four players and we said, 'OK, we need to do the same thing we did two years ago, to work really hard.' Real Madrid and Barcelona spent a lot of money, but we had confidence in our plan."
  
That season Valencia reclaimed the title and added the UEFA Cup. Benítez's biography identifies two epic comebacks, both at Espanyol, that epitomised his work ethic and his ability to "squeeze 100 per cent productivity from each and every one of his players." The objective, claims the author Paco Lloret, is an 'intensity of play' that overwhelms the opposition. The benchmark was set by Milan under Arrigo Saachi then Fabio Capello. "They changed everything because they didn’t allow their opponents to play," says Benítez. "It was almost perfect – not perfect because that’s impossible – but close.
  
"They worked hard, really hard. I watched them many times and I still have a good relationship with Saachi. One time they played Real Madrid and the day before, I went to the training session and saw them working for a long, long time tactically. It was unbelievable."

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Tellingly, before last season's final, Benítez described Milan as "an unstoppable machine if we let them play, players of such quality that they can make decisions for themselves."
  
The phrase 'intensity of play' appears more than once in the Benítez biography. At lowly Extramadura, his players "began to acquire responses that became instinctive and natural." When they won their second Spanish title, Valencia were "an implacable steamroller, they were like boxers who pinned their opponents to the rope and wouldn't stop until they had annihilated them." Their style earned them the nickname 'the Crushing Machine'.
  
The apogee of Istanbul aside, Liverpool have yet to scale the same heights in the Premiership on a consistent basis, or rediscover the pass-and-move philosophy of their own great forebears which, combined with the kind of Milanese improvisation that Benítez so admires, would finally make them a domestic force to be reckoned with.


How basketball and chess influenced the football man...

Benítez had a passion for sport as a youth, excelling in swimming and judo, a discipline in which his older brother Francisco became a black belt. And he's never been afraid to introduce ideas from other sports into football. He has a thorough knowledge of physical fitness, too, gleaned from his spell as director of the Abasota gym in Madrid, where he met his wife.

Following Spain's silver medal at the 1984 Olympics, Benítez caught the basketball bug and explored the sport's exhaustive tactical rehearsals and methods of communication between coach and players. Biographer Paco Lloret writes: "Basketball was based on study and analysis – two elements which he believed were paramount in sport and which almost no one applied in the football world." Benítez also has a lifetime passion for chess. Linares, the Aragonese town where he played upon leaving Real Madrid, was home to an unofficial world championship. When he returned to the Bernabéu as a youth coach, he was seconded to a pre-season tour of Italy by the first team, primarily to joust over the black-and-white board with manager and fellow player Radomir Antic.
There are many fans at Anfield who would gladly trade another Champions League triumph for a first English title in 15 years; for Benítez to usurp the hegemony of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United just as he challenged the sovereignty of Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain. He understands their impatience.
  
"I don't think about this or that trophy, I only think about winning the next game. But I know that the Premiership is the target. If we improve, we can be closer to the top three teams. I don't think about them, either. We have so much to do here that I don't waste my time speaking about them. Our idea is to improve in every department."
  
The purchase of Peter Crouch, tall and long-limbed like John Carew at Valencia, was the most notable addition to the squad last summer. It has enabled Benítez to revisit a tactical policy – nominally one upfront with five across midfield – that he employed with great success at Valencia.
  
The 4-5-1 formation has been an issue dans le vent in this season's Premiership, drawing criticism for its perceived negative connotations, criticism that Benítez finds simplistic. Formations, he argues, are merely filters through which tactics can be refined during the course of each match, with full-backs pushing up and midfielders supporting the lone forward when the team's 'intensity of play' permits.
  
"I always say the same thing. What is the difference between 4-3-3 and 4-5-1? Only whether you play the wingers deep or high. Then if you press the other team they will play deep, 4-5-1. And if you cannot press them because they are stronger than you, they'll play 4-3-3. People talk about systems, but maybe they don't know a lot about systems.
  
"At Valencia we played 4-2-3-1. And here, when we play our best football, we play 4-2-3-1. When we control the game, when we score goals, we play 4-2-3-1. What's the difference? It depends on the second striker. If he goes back to defend, it's 4-2-3-1. If he stays up, it's 4-4-2. It's the same. The system is only designed around numbers. The most important thing is what the players do."
  
In the first half of this season, Crouch's uninspiring start to his Anfield career seemed at odds with the decision to keep crowd favourite Djibril Cissé on the bench. Famously, Benítez brazened out a similar clamour to play cult hero Pablo Aimar at Valencia.
  
"It's simple," he explains. "When you talk about players, you talk about personalities. And then it is the difference between you and me. You go to, I don't know, a theatre, and you see some things and they see other things because you are different. It's the same with players. Some understand the style of football, the culture, the language. Others don't. It's important to know all the things that you can before you sign a player. I always say that you can have a good player for winning one game, but you need a squad for winning trophies. You need good professionals because at the end you'll be with them for one, two, three, four years, not just one game. And then sometimes he's a hero to the supporters. They see him and think, 'Why isn't he playing?' But maybe he can have one good game but not the next four. OK, you can use players who can amuse the supporters, but if you want to win trophies you need workers, for 90 minutes, every week, every training session. Workers with enough quality for winning."
  
To borrow a local expression, Benítez did not arrive in Liverpool with his head sticking out of a crate. By winning the title with Valencia he succeeded where Luis Aragonés, Guus Hiddink, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Claudio Ranieri and Héctor Cúper all failed. Now he has the cachet of being only the second coach to lead a foreign team to the European Cup in his first season in charge, after – and the precedent isn't particularly encouraging – Jupp Heynckes with Real Madrid in 1998. But his own assimilation to his adopted country remains a work in progress.
  
"Watching the games on the TV, we knew it would be more physical. The thing is, you must be on the pitch to see the difference, to feel the difference. For me, the challenge with Valencia was to break Real and Barcelona. It's similar here with one big difference. In Spain you know the culture and language, but here you need to learn all these things.
  
"When you start working you think that, OK, it will be easy to learn English in six months and speak to everyone. But you run into problems with the language. I have a little story. If it's windy you say to the players, be careful with the wind [rhyming with 'tinned']. But if you say, be careful with the wind [rhyming with 'kind'], there's a big difference, no? People say that football is the same, but you still need to explain your ideas, you need to improve each day.
  
"The other big thing is that I am delighted with the supporters. The final in Istanbul, the atmosphere in the stadium, the faces of the fans. You can lose, play bad and they always support you. It's fantastic."
  
Note that down for the next biography. In one of his books, Latin American novelist Gabriel García Márquez touchingly re-lives the moment when François Mitterrand conferred upon him the Legion d'onneur in Paris. "He said something which moved me almost to tears and I'm sure it must have affected him as much as it did me. He said, 'Vous appartenez au monde que j'aime.' You belong to the world I love. When Rafael Benítez stares at the portraits of Bill Shankly along Anfield's corridors of power, remembers conversations with Arrigo Sacchi in Madrid and Milan and glances at the Kop chanting his name in full voice, it's a fair bet that the sentiments are the same.

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A cruel own goal from Miki Roque set Middlesbrough Reserves on their way to a 2-0 victory over Liverpool at a wind swept Academy in Kirkby.  
In fairness Liverpool deserved at least a point from the game but a cruel deflection off Roque earned Boro the three points. The goal came four minutes into the second half, when Adam Johnson's cross hit Roque and deflected the ball past a wrong footed Reds keeper David Martin and into the net.
  
With time running out and the Reds pressing for an equaliser Boro scored the second goal and again it came via a deflection, when Owens shot struck Danny O'Donnell on its way into the net.
  
Liverpool rallied after going a goal down and they created several good openings but just couldn't find that elusive goal that would have earned them a deserved equaliser. Danny Guthrie had a fine game playing just off the striker and he combined really well with Lee Peltier who had another excellent match in the centre of midfield.
  
Both teams fielded young sides and Liverpool Reserve team manager's Hughie McAuley and Paco Herrera fielded 17-year-old Paul Anderson in attack alongside Robbie Foy. Anderson played the first 45 minutes before making way for Welsh Under-21 international Ramon Calliste in the second half.
  
Back in February Middlesbrough beat Liverpool 4-1 in a game that was a lot closer than the scoreline suggests.
  
After a slow start Liverpool created a good opening after 18 minutes when Guthrie's superb pass sent Anderson racing away down the right wing. The former Hull City winger cut inside and was unlucky to see his low drive well held by Boro keeper David Knight.
  
Antonio Barragan was a lively figure for Liverpool as an attacking right back. He almost equalised in the second half after a brilliant run, when he turned three defenders inside out before blasting an effort just over the bar.
  
Reds centre half Danny O'Donnell then missed a glorious chance after 65 minutes when, unmarked from a corner, headed over the bar.
  
The Reds then sent on one of the heroes of the FA Youth Cup run in seven goal striker Craig Lindfield. He had two great chances, hitting the bar and then missing a great chance when he ran clean through but Knight saved at his feet.
  
It wasn't to be Liverpool's night but they certainly had the chances to force at least a draw from the game.
  
Liverpool Reserves: Martin, Barragan, Woods (Lindfield 72), Antwi, O'Donnell, Roque, Peltier, Hobbs, Anderson (Calliste 45), Guthrie, Foy. Subs not used: Lancaster (GK), Flynn, Threlfall.
  
Middlesbrough Reserves: Knight, J Johnson, Taylor, Robson, Bates, Liddle, Owens, Williams, Craddock, Kennedy, A Johnson.
  
Referee: M Matadar.
  
Liverpoolfc.tv man of the match: Danny Guthrie. Excellent display of passing.

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203rd Merseyside Derby Special
  
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Momo's return to form

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Derby days are hard enough at the best of times but the Reds were given a mountain to climb when they were reduced to ten men following Stevie Gerrard's red card.  


  
Thankfully, however, the character Rafa has instilled in his players made light work of the handicap to claim a memorable win.
  
Saturday's victory was particularly sweet given the circumstances. The Reds have on occasions this season struggled to make things easy against ten men but, forced to handle that situation themselves, they adapted superbly.
  
In these situations it should be about making the extra man tell - creating width and stretching the play - but Everton failed to do that as the Reds kept their shape extremely well and hardly ever looked outnumbered.
  
Derby debuts can be nerve-racking affairs and that surely applies to referees as well and Saturday's official Phil Dowd made his derby debut memorable, though for different reasons. We expect to see our derby games keenly contested and the pattern is normally set very early on with some quick and snappy challenges.
  
At that point, you hope for the referee to pick up the signs and set the tone. I think Mr Dowd missed the early opportunity to stamp out the niggling atmosphere when he failed to handle the early moments. Had he taken the chance to have a few words with the culprits early on, he might have avoided having to dish out yellow cards like confetti.
  
On Saturday, I was part of the Liverpool FC TV coverage team with Roy Evans and he made a valid comment in stating that there are some referees who shouldn't be put in charge of a Mersey derby and last weekend's choice was certainly one.
  
He was far too officious and once he started issuing cards, there was always going to be at least one red card shown amongst his collection. The fact it was Steven Gerrard was a surprise and a massive blow - the two incidents he was involved in were rash and silly and, coming within a minute of each other, gave Dowd no real option. He did however have the chance to show more common sense on other occasions later.
  
At the point of losing the captain, I thought the Reds game plan might have become a little more cautious - adopting a what-we-have-we-hold policy. Instead, a slight modification bringing Luis Garcia back in to fill the right side hardly inconvenienced the Reds at all.
  
With Peter Crouch the outlet and Garcia and Harry Kewell supporting at every opportunity, the ten men rarely looked handicapped. The tactics were spot on but it was the team spirit and character that laid the foundation for the win.
  
Derby days always promise much but often fail to deliver real thrills. Having said that, I really enjoyed this one - the result probably had a lot to do with it - and thankfully we retained the bragging rights. Full of incident, it left us with loads of talking points. The second-half goals were the obvious highlights and it was fitting that the two players asked to support the willing Crouch delivered such quality finishes.
  
Garcia has his fair share of critics but after all is said and done, he has an eye for a goal scoring opportunity and the weekend's strike again takes him into double figures for his second successive season - brilliant for a midfield man.
  
Seeing Kewell score again should act as a boost for him to continue getting on the scoresheet. There's no denying he has the shooting ability and he should be delivering an equal amount of goals as the Spaniard.
  
I found it interesting in the aftermath of the weekend and the two red cards to consider why now, for some reason, we are seeing red cards in almost every derby game. After Saturday, it's seven in the last six games between the two teams. I agree with those who think this week's game was never a dirty contest, just that we saw a lot of petty challenges punished harshly by an over-zealous referee.
  
That is probably one of the reasons we are seeing far more red and yellow cards issued. Granted you'll always get the silly challenges being made but some of the referees in recent seasons have shown a lack of understanding towards the fixture.
  
I can remember the derbies I played in being far more meaty affairs with hardly a card being shown. Refereed properly, the games often settled down and found a balance of sensibility. We tended to know a lot of the Everton players but whether that helped in the way those games were fought out I don't know - there was certainly never any lack of passion shown in winning the battles of the day.
  
The fact there were nine yellow and two red cards handed out on Saturday means, for their part Everton will be fined as they had seven men booked. I think on reflection that will be harsh given the referee's performance though the FA are sure to go along with the official. While, by contrast, Liverpool continue to show by and large how well disciplined they are in such heated atmospheres.
  
After the weekend's games, the problem with cheating came up again. I mentioned my thoughts on diving in recent weeks but the issue continues to be high on the priority list to curb from the game.
  
Just watching Liverpool games, you see enough instances from opponents that are outrageous and annoying and the frequency of the obvious diving incidents elsewhere must start embarrassing some players and managers soon.
  
Though diving is definitely perceived as cheating, I am not sure Didier Drogba's goal can be thought of in the same way. We were always told to just put the ball in the back of the net in similar circumstances and then wait for the whistle.
  
I don't know if Drogba intentionally stretched out his arm - he looked to me if as if he was trying to adjust his body and found he couldn't quite get there so he allowed the ball to hit his arm – but if the referee had seen it and disallowed the goal, I'm sure he would've accepted it.
  
But just in case, he flashed the ball into the net like all good strikers would have done and waited to see if anyone spotted the infringement. This time he got away with it. Next time he might not but I certainly don't think he should have owned up to handling the ball.
  
Tonight's game between Arsenal and Juventus in the Champion's League brings back the memory of our incredible night last year against the Italians at the same stage of the competition. I wonder if the Gunners will be able to pull off as spectacular a win as we managed. Perhaps they will see it as some sort of omen coming up against one the tournament favourites and aiming to replicate our result and spur them on to a final appearance. If the Gunners can continue their good form, I can see them getting the win and I wouldn't rule them out of progressing.
  
Elsewhere, Gerard Houllier's Lyon side come up against AC Milan and there is little doubt the Italians have aspirations of making up for last season. Houllier, however, was there in Istanbul as a UEFA observer I'm sure he'll think he has Milan's card marked. We shall see.

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Phil Neville's own goal at Anfield on Saturday might have brought joy to thousands of Reds but it wasn't a patch on Sandy Brown's classic O.G from 1969. Was it the best own goal ever? Watch it now for free and decide for yourself.  
It was not enough for Brown simply to score one of the most spectacular own goals in the history of English football - no, he had to do it in a Merseyside derby at his home ground of Goodison Park.
  
It's probably not much consolation to Brown but the goal itself was a beauty as the defender dived full length to send a bullet header darting into the back of his own net!
  
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Originally posted by 書2童子 at 2006-3-29 14:24



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