Striker Fernando Torres ended his six-match goal drought with
the winner against Blackburn to provide a much-needed boost at Anfield.
Goalkeeper Paul Robinson had kept the Reds at bay until Sotirios
Kyrgiakos' 48th-minute header and although a Jamie Carragher own
goal quickly levelled things up Torres struck only his second of
the season soon after.
It ended a run of seven matches without a victory in all competitions
and although it was still not enough to lift Liverpool out of the
bottom three the result came as a welcome relief.
Torres, starved of service, has looked woefully out of form with
his only goal coming in the 1-0 win over West Brom at the end of
August. However, if the Spain international could have chosen any
team to play against it would have been Rovers, against whom he
has now scored five times in their last four meetings. And it can
be no coincidence Liverpool's only two Premier League victories
have been as a result of Torres applying the decisive finish.
It was the very least representatives of New England Sports Ventures,
in the crowd after their £300 million buy-out just over a
week ago, will have wanted to see.
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