The 2008/09 English premier league season has to be one of the most memorable seasons for Liverpool. They are flying high. The month that will be remembered most by most Liverpool fans will have to be March. In this month, Liverpool had tough matches both locally and in the UEFA Champions league.
At the beginning of month, they were in 4th place with 55 points, 7 behind the league leaders. At the end of the month, they were a single point behind the leaders, but with the leaders having a game at hand. They ended the month of February on a low note with a 2-0 disappointing loss to Middlesbrough. I really don’t know what happened in that game or what the Rafael Benitez said that sparked a wonderful come back in the month of March.
March started with Liverpool facing Sunderland at Arnfield. Liverpool were able to beat them 2-0 with goals by the young David Ngog and Yossi Benayoun. Surprisingly enough, that was Liverpool’s second home league win since Boxing day and that gave them confidence as they headed for the Champions League tie against Real Madrid.
March was to be one of the toughest months for Liverpool as they had to face Real Madrid, Man Utd and the ever rising Aston Villa in consecutive matches. This is how it went down:
On March 10th, Real Madrid made their way to Arnfield for the return leg. Liverpool had earlier beaten Real Madrid at the Bernabeu stadium 1-0 in late February. Being the team that has won the Champions league title the most, they were looking to repay Liverpool for the damaged they had done back in Spain. This was all changed when the game started and Torres made one of the most lovely turns and almost scored his former derby rivals (i.e. he was in Atletico Madrid). Soon Liverpool was attacking so often and in the 16th minute, El Nino (aka Fernando Torres) opened the scoring with a lovely placing below Casillas assisted by Dirk Kuyt. After 12 minutes, Torres was brought down in the 18 yard box and who else to convert it but Steven Gerrard. He sent the goalkeeper the wrong way. In the second half, Gerrard added to his tally assisted by Ryan Babel. Real Madrid couldn’t believe it. There were a few instances of brilliance by Marcello and Raul but Dossena put the icing on the cake as he scored in the 88th minute…final score
Liverpool 4 Real Madrid 0.
Second part of article here.
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