Unsung Hero Finnan

3 Apr 2007 PSV Eindhoven 0-3 Liverpool - CL quarter-final lst leg

BBC - Steven Gerrard thumped in a header from Steve Finnan's cross to put the Reds ahead and become Liverpool's leading scorer in European Cup competition. PSV were ripe for the taking and the Reds showed no mercy as John Arne Riise thundered in a long-range strike. Peter Crouch put the gloss on the win when he nodded in another Finnan cross.

Stevie: "There's still work to be done in this tie and we have to make sure we're professional at Anfield next week and finish the job off. There's still 90 minutes to play. If we do that then we can think about playing Chelsea or Valencia, but not yet. It was a good performance from us tonight. We were solid and hard to break down. Once we got the first goal we knew what we wanted to do and we did it well."

Crouchy: "The idea was not to concede and try to score an away goal. To score three was better than we'd planned for. To win 3-0 away anywhere in Europe is a great result and we're all delighted."



Anyone noticed that when Gerrard and Crouchy were interviewed after the game.... They both didn't shave beard!?? I guess that was a little superstition between the lads, huh? But it works anyway! Although not a perfect performance (a perfect results though) but it's enough to beat poor PSV. By the way, what happened to Aurelio?? What was that!? It's actually creepy to me because it was as if someone's behind him! Best wishes to him as you can see he was gutted. I think he cried on the stretcher.... Really unlucky, I just started to trust him a little bit more recently. Get well soon! And, unsung hero remains unsung.... two perfect crosses by Stevie Finnan today! Well done! Oh, before I forget to mention, does anyone like me think Kuyt was delibrately got booked in the added time?? Clever.

Stevie: "Everyone can see there's a big difference to how we're playing now compared to when we last played in Eindhoven. We were more inconsistent as a team when we met them last time and had a lot of big players who weren't on form. If you look at us now, all the big names are performing well, whether it's Carragher, Reina or Alonso. It's the same for me. I was really frustrated at the beginning of the season because I was lacking energy in my game and felt lethargic physically and mentally. But since Christmas I've been feeling everything coming back. I'm training better and hopefully peaking at the right time because there are so many big games around the corner. We're all getting those feelings again as we did two years ago, but we're also telling ourselves to slow down. There's still a lot of work to do before we can think about Athens."

Liverpoolfc.tv - Liverpool have today confirmed that Brazilian left back Fabio Aurelio will miss the rest of the season after rupturing his achilles tendon in Eindhoven on Tuesday evening.