For one minute I thought you were suggesting we support Arsenal. Thank goodness it was relegation talk!

I am truly gutted, but when they got that corner in the dying minutes I knew we would concede. We were awful defending corners today and if we defend like that for the last 5 games (which I think we will) we will let so many more goals in.
I was thinking a point was not good enough when we brought it back to 2-2, but at least to have gained something would not have been such a kick in the teeth. We needed all 3 points (when considering the match circumstances), 1 would have been ok (I would have taken that before the game, even considering Liverpools recent form) but to end up with nothing is an awful result for us.
We keep relying on other teams to be as bad as us and we can't do that, and now we need to win 3 of the last 5 games in my opinion to stay up and without meaning to be too negative in this post, that is so unlikely to happen. Sad, sad day for Rover's.

P.S. Yakubu's first penalty was truly terrible

If you lose to a 10 man Liverpool reserve team when you have 2 penalties then you desrve to go down.

What was that Neil Sedaka song called ?

"If you lose to a 10 man Liverpool reserve team when you have 2 penalties then you desrve to go down."

Said by an obsessive stalker but true nonetheless. We appear to be getting worse. Only some miracle turnaround can save us now.

Sad thing for me is Liverpool was the better team we got what we deserved nothing

Its all gone quiet over there !

Another loss in the 90+ minutes when will they learn that first penalty summed up our season - weak!

Unfortunately that was the game that sealed our fate for me.

If we beat Norwich and Wigan (big if) we still have to beat one of Swansea, Spurs or Chelsea away to stay up. Our record at Chelsea is very poor and basically the games are running out.

The Bolton game was oh so big and we blew that one badly. If ever a Liverpool team was there for the taking it was last night. Both of Yakubu's penalties were rubbish. We all know Lampard hits his bottom right but at least he drives it in with a bit of power.

I actually think Wigan will turn us over at Ewood.

Sad days.

Venky's out.

Once again, the referee's decisions swayed the result. Things might have been very different if he had sent off Flanagan for his second tackle. And I thought Jones should have been sent off too for his foul on Yakubu.

I was encouraged by the spirit the team showed in coming back from two goals down. They are still fighting for their lives. Let's see what tonight's games bring.

In my opinion, we got what we deserved. We had 30mins against 10 men and showed no urgency or willing. Lowe came on and completely slowed the game down, picked the ball up in the middle and passed it backwards/sideways every time. We then lumped it forward to a lone striker. If you're going to play that game, at least get a few people in the box.

I thought we were completely powder-puff for that last half an hour, didn't deserve anything from the game. Why weren't we playing at a higher intensity? We kept four people back against 1 or 2, and then smacked it long meaning that we were never using the numerical advantage.

It really was clueless.

Pathetic.

Numerical advantage for 60 minutes and you could barely tell. We weren't moving the ball around creating chances just lumping it forward and relying on set pieces. Playing long cross field balls to try and switch the play which hung to long and were easily cut out by Liverpool.

Formica was useless, I'd say it was because he was playing Shat but other players seemed reluctant to even pass the ball to him. Should've been off at half time but instead Kean waited until the 73rd minute and probably brought on Rochina just because the Blackburn End were calling for it. Marcus Olsson was hard working, as he has been since joining, but has absolutely no end product.

Fair enough stick with the centre back pairing that got you two clean sheets in a row, but when you've conceded 7 in the last 3, maybe just maybe its worth a change.

I'd mention that (IMO from the stands) Flanagan and Jones should also have been sent off, but I doubt Rovers would've done any better against 9 or 8 men anyway.

Swansea are going to pick us to pieces at the weekend, not getting anything from Spurs and Chelsea, even beating Norwich and Wigan would only put us on 34 points and I can't even see us doing that. We're down and, whoever you blame for it, deserve to be by playing like that.

Pathetic.

Why was Pedersen dropped utterly crazy

The problems came when the opponents ran at our defence. The speed of Bellamy and strength of Carrol - neither a surprise - caused problems all night. There didn't seem to be a plan to cope with them.

The team had defended well against Manchester United. But last night, as so often this season, there was no protection in midfield for the defence. Dunn came back and altered the balance - he is much better at going forward than defending.

The team fought back from two goals down. Surely they deserve some credit for that. And they did enough to score three. Yakubu missed a penalty. That's an individual mistake - it doesn't take anything away from the way the collective performance.

Yakubu missed a penalty. That's an individual mistake -
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That was the worse penalty i have ever seen i can't believe did 1 that bad

We are way past the point of giving credit for spirited performances.

Kean's 'we were competitive' is code for 'we are going down'.

Much rather be bobbins now and rob the points than be spirited and competitive.

What bothered me is that after getting the equaliser, the only save their keeper made was from his own player. I just never got the impression that we were a team scrapping for our lives going all out for the win. Just looked like we were going through the motions.

What bothered me is that after getting the equaliser, the only save their keeper made was from his own player. I just never got the impression that we were a team scrapping for our lives going all out for the win. Just looked like we were going through the motions.
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Agree completely with this. For me that was what was frustrating, there was no urgency, when this game was there for the taking with a man advantage and a team drained of confidence, not only before the game but then letting a 2 goal lead slip as well.

Also, did we only make 2 subs again? I think Rochina and Lowe came on, but why not have brought on some more fresh legs to get at them?
I don't want to belive that we are constrained by finances at the amount of subs we can use, because it seems ridiculous, but it does (from the last load of games) seem to be the only reasoning for why we are not making the max amount of subs. Another thing to add to the list of complete shambles at Rover's this season.

Apart from the team not playing with any urgency (they seemed pretty relaxed just jogging around), playing the ball out wide then cutting it back, awful passing, bad tactics etc, the biggest problem I saw last night was the keeper was ******* himself, he could not hold onto the ball, there should have been shots going in from outside the box all second half, if someone scores brilliant, if the keeper drops it, Yak knocks it in, I saw non of that.
Kean stood in his little corner all game with his arms folded, he is quite honestly useless.

To say we were unfortunate doesn't cut it at this stage of the season, over 38 games we won't have been good enough (even if we win a few from here on in)

The only saving grace will be if Wigan and QPR want to be relegated more than us, which is possible.

Liverpool were probably the least in form team in the league. They were saving their best players for Everton at the weekend. They were forced to play most of the match with their third choice goalkeeper. They played most of the match with ten men. They conceded two penalties. They were away, we were at home.
Short of fielding a team of leg amputees, I'm not sure how they could have made it much easier for us, and we still couldn't get a point.