Thursday, November 6, 2008

LIVERPOOL VERSES ATLETICO MADRID.

The Spanish club Atletico Madrid were making their apearance in the championship this year after a agap of nine long years during that timethey were once relegated and also had financial problems. They have come over those problemsin style and are giving agood account of themselves both in Spain and the Champion league.
This time it was the Spanish side Atletico Madrid who opened the scoring through Maxi Rodrigues . And Liverpool tried hard indeed to get an equalizer but could not get it , Liverpool also had a few apeals for a penalty durned down by the referee a otal of three apeals. The Liverpool fans and Rafael Benitz were all getting nervous as the precious minutes ticked by.And at long last it apeared their apeal was finaly upheld for a penalty , and it came in the 90+5 minutes of the game , the vey last gap of time and the last kick of the game. Steven Gerrard converted the penalty in the 95th miute of the game to gain a precious point.
This means that Liverpool will have to play one more game to make sureof going to the group of sixteen teams, the knock out stages.the match ended 1-1.

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