Rafa Benitez’s Liverpool side romped home past doomed Portsmouth at Anfield. Goals from Fernando Torres, Ryan Babel and Alberto Aquilani’s first for the club put the home side 3-0 up inside the first thirty minutes and looked like they would go on a scoring spree.
Luckily for Pompey Liverpool took their foot of the gas and only managed one more goal, Torres scoring his second. Belhadj scored a consolation goal in the dying minutes.
The win puts Liverpool back in the Champions League hunt and Rafa will hope that the convincing nature of the win will appease the fans and stifle speculation about his future as Anfield boss.
Birmingham City triumphed at Fratton Park thanks to a first half brace from striker Cameron Jerome. The win sees the St Andrews side leapfrog Everton into eighth place and consigned Portsmouth to yet more heartache.
Alex McLeish’s side were seen as relegation candidates when the season started but now they have a realistic shot at finishing in a Europa League spot and the win makes up for Birmingham’s loss to Pompey in the FA Cup Quarter Finals just three days previously.
Perhaps most pleasing for the Brum boss was the fact that his side clinched their first away Premier League win of 2010.
A brace from Frederic Piquionne helped take Portsmouth into the FA Cup Semi-Finals and ease some of the Fratton Park sides woes.
Avram Grant’s side Pompey side can feel proud of their achievements as they edged past in form Birmingham thanks to two goals in three minutes that put the south coast side into the hat for the last four of the competition.
Perhaps in some ways relieved by their impending doom, following their nine point deduction for going into administration, Portsmouth left all their Fratton Park woes behind them to register an impressive away win at Turf Moor.
Portsmouth were unable to overcome Stoke City in this crucial game for the Fratton Park outfit. The Potters had Andy Wilkinson sent off for two bookable offences went away with all three points after Salif Diao scored a last gasp winner to break Pompey hearts.
Finally Portsmouth have something to smile about after beating arch rivals Southampton in this FA Cup tie at St Mary’s. The Fratton Park side managed to overcome early pressure from their League One opponents and now find themselves in the hat for the FA Cup Quarter Finals.
Portsmouth grabbed a last minute equalizer at Fratton Park as Aruna Dindane scored a priceless penalty in a bad tempered encounter that saw three players sent off.
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anonymous wrote on Revealed: Liverpool Boss Job Application Form (63):Its not either the manager or the owners or the players its all of them. Rafa came on the back of success with limited resources and hasn’t moved on. 4 2 3 1 one size...