Fulham v. Liverpool: Well, We Tried.

By: Andrew | November 11th, 2007

Coming into this game, we knew it was going to be a monumental task bordering on the impossible if we were going to get anything out of this game. Coming into the match, Fulham had never won in any competition at Anfield, a trend that continued yesterday. It was certainly a good team effort: we held the Reds for 80 minutes and only suffered a few scares during that time. The defense was often well organized and hard to break down. Niemi made some fantastic saves, including off a difficult Fabio Aurelio freekick, leaving me wondering how we weren’t losing.

But it was all too familiar for the Cottagers who seem to think games only last 80 minutes. We saw it Sunderland when we gave away a late equalizer despite dominating the game, and we saw it again today with two late goals from Torres and Gerrard. Torres’s goal was hard to do anything about. Everyone thought he was going far post but he saw the legs of Hughes wide open and slotted home near post freezing Niemi.

The second goal was also typical with Bocanegra again making a terrible mistake and bringing down Crouch. To be fair to him, it looked outside the box, but referees will call anything remotely near the box a penalty. I can’t be too disappointed with this defeat as we all knew it was going to happen. Looking at the table, we haven’t slipped at all which is a positive. I take comfort in knowing there are teams far worse than us in the league. But if we don’t want it to be a struggle, we’ve got to start picking up points along the way. Looking at the calendar, that’s going to very difficult in the next couple of games, with Blackburn, Man United and