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TheoRacle wrote:OK Birmingham... on paper it looks like a foregone conclusion.

At our place we dominated with 24 shots to 3 and 67% of possession thanks to Johnson's sending off for his rash tackle on Agger. Gerrard scored from a neat Morientes pullback while Fowler scored a wonderful overhead kick only for it to be ruled offside. Just when it looked all over for Brum, Alonso scored at the wrong end after a chested back pass wrong footed Pepe with both players unable to recover before the ball crossed the line..

It was another own goal at St Andrews which prevented us from taking all three points earlier in the season too. This time Warnock was unlucky attempting to cut off a cross from Julian Gray, inadvertantly heading the ball in to his own net. The other Liverpool players to get on the scorescheet were Garcia with a low left footed drive from a Gerrard assist and Cisse who converted a penalty after Carraghers goal bound header was hand-balled on the line by Kilkenny.  This was Liverpool's 5th league game of the season and depsite being slow out of the blocks at the beginning of the season we still bossed the game with 14 shots to 4 and 58% of posession.  Maik Taylor was excellent in both games easily securing the Brum MOM awards.


So five of our players have managed to get on the score sheet against Brum this season and in all seriousness there's no reason to think that we couldn't get the same tonight but with all goals at the right end this time. Brum have conceded 41 goals this season and only won 4 games at home.They have a worse defensive record than both Newcastle and Fulham and are seriously struggling with the threat of relegation having been in or below 18th spot since the 23rd of October.

I really can't see them putting in a 'cup tie' performance and with us playing with some confidence having scored 8 goals in two games I'm going to predict a 3-0 win.