Liverpool 1 Everton 1: Gerrard on-song to 妨害する resilient Toffees

By Matt Lawton for the Daily Mail
Updated: 03:08 BST, 26 January 2009

How Rafa Benitez must wish he could have invoked that 議論の的になる FA 支配する which 許すs clubs to 避ける Cup replays.

Liverpool need another game against Everton like Steven Gerrard needs another day in 法廷，裁判所, but it is to Goodison Park they go after again failing to 征服する／打ち勝つ their nearest and not so dearest here at Anfield.

Benitez said he would welcome an end to replays and when his 味方する remain in the 厚い of a 肩書を与える race 同様に as the last 16 of the 支持する／優勝者s League, one more 遭遇（する） with such bitter, belligerent 競争相手s could 証明する 高くつく／犠牲の大きい.

Red menace: Gerrard celebrates his 15th goal of the season

特に when a 会合 with Aston 郊外住宅 is likely to follow for the 結局の 勝利者.

Never have Liverpool 敗北・負かすd Everton at Anfield in this 競争.

And David Moyes’ 味方する will take some （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing if they continue to 成し遂げる like this.

In the end, Liverpool no 疑問 feel this was an opportunit y squandered, and after Gerrard 得点する／非難する／２０d a terrific equaliser they did have the better of what chances there were.

But Everton were every bit as brilliant as they were here in the Barclays 首相 League last Monday, defending courageously and 戦う／戦いing so relentlessly it is little wonder they are now unbeaten in eight games.

For that run they 借りがある much to Phil Jagielka and Joleon Lescott, who are playing 同様に as any central 防御の 共同 in the 最高の，を越す flight.

On Sunday they even threw in a goal for good 手段, Lescott 得点する／非難する／２０ing his fourth of the season after 27 minutes.

Benitez was scathing about Everton later.

開始 一斉射撃: Lescott (number 5) （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s the despairing Reina to put Everton a goal up

Too 消極的な. Too many men behind the ball. But perhaps he needs to remember that while Robbie Keane could not even 安全な・保証する a place on Liverpool’s （法廷の）裁判, Moyes had to 準備する for this game with three of his best strikers absent, 同様に as attacking midfielder Mikel Arteta.

On a day when Louis Saha were 行方不明の from Everton’s 前線 line, what did Benitez 本気で 推定する／予想する?

The Liverpool 経営者／支配人 should 焦点（を合わせる） on 事柄s closer to home, and not just the soap オペラ that is 脅すing to destroy Liverpool’s best chance of winning the League in almost 20 years.

Not just the 摩擦 between Benitez and the Anfield 階層制度, or the 摩擦 between 確かな members of that 階層制度, 同様に as what would now appear to be a total 決裂／故障 in the 関係 between the owners and a Kuwaiti 国際借款団／連合 who were 利益／興味d in taking a 大多数 株 of the club.

In 新規加入, Benitez needs to settle on what he considers his best team and 急速な／放蕩な, with the second-half 業績／成果 示唆するing he was much closer to getting it 権利 on Sunday than he was last Monday.

Two precious 首相 League points were dropped on Monday when Keane was selected to partner Fernando Torres and Gerrard was asked to sit 深い in midfield.

How lost Torres looked.

Feeling blue: Lescott (second left) is 襲う by Tim Cahill (権利), Steven Pienaar (centre), Leon Osman (second left) and 勝利者 Anichebe (left)

明確に, he prefers to have the pace and 力／強力にする of Gerrard と一緒に him and the second 45 minutes here should 納得させる Benitez to stick with that 形式 come Wednesday’s trip to Wigan and Sunday’s hugely 重要な home 衝突／不一致 with Chelsea.

Benitez would argue that there is not a 広大な／多数の／重要な 取引，協定 wrong.

They are unbeaten in 14 matches, after all.

But 勢い is what this Liverpool team need and nobody 供給するs it for them more than a captain who followed that 最高の goal against Everton last week with another perfectly-遂行する／発効させるd strike.

That he had to appear at Sefton 治安判事s’ 法廷，裁判所 little more than 48 hours earlier made it all the more remarkable.

Such is the 真面目さ of the 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, the 圧力 must at times feel intolerable, not least when Everton 支持者s taunt him.

But Gerrard puts those troubles to one 味方する and 成し遂げるs with an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の degree of professionalism, 救助（する）ing his 同僚s from what would have been a 鎮圧するing 敗北・負かす.

By the end of a difficult 開始 half of this derby, 意気込み／士気 in Liverpool’s dressing room must have been 危険に low.

Because it was not just the manner in which they 譲歩するd that goal from Lescott.

It was not just their 失敗 to learn the lessons of last week in 許すing Tim Cahill to 会合，会う a Steven Pienaar corner with a 解放する／自由な header that Lescott then コースを変えるd beyond the reach of Pepe Reina.

飛行機で行くing high: Liverpool's Fernando Torres (left) and Phil Neville of Everton 会合，会う 中央の-空気／公表する

It was the fact that they failed to 軍隊 Tim Howard into making a 選び出す／独身 save.

Jamie Carragher was so 失望させるd he complained too vociferously to Steve Bennett and the 審判（をする） 調書をとる／予約するd him in the tunnel for his insolence.

After the break, however, a very different Liverpool 味方する 現れるd.

They began to 成し遂げる with more cohesion, more 緊急, more heart.

Even if Howard will feel he should have made the save, it was a wonderful goal in the 54th minute.

A やめる exquisite 支援する-heel from Torres and a 強くたたくing left-foot 発射 from Gerrard, 抑えるのをやめるd when moving at 最大限 速度(を上げる）.

Howard did then make 修正するs, 飛び込み to his left to 否定する Gerrard a second, and it took a 勇敢な 封鎖する from Jagielka to 否定する Torres.

Afterwards Moyes pointed to a 刑罰，罰則 that might have been given had it not been 権利 in 前線 of the Kop, when Xabi Alonso caught Pienaar’s 権利 heel.

Emotional scenes: Liverpool fans in their 十分な glory

It 量d to a 堅い call for Bennett ― and one he chose not to make.

Before Benitez bemoans Everton’s 策略 again, he might want to take another look at that 出来事/事件.

And 結論する that, as unwanted as it is,a replay is probably the 結果 both teams deserved.

LIVERPOOL (4-4-1-1): Reina 7; Arbeloa 6, Skrtel 6, Carragher 7, Dossena 6; Kuyt 6, Mascherano 6, Alonso 6, Babel 5 (Riera 75min, 6); Gerrard 8; Torres 7.
調書をとる／予約するd: Alonso, Carragher.

EVERTON (4-4-2): Howard 7; Hibbert 7, Jagielka 8, Lescott 8, Baines 6; Osman 6,Neville 7, Castillo 6 (Rodwell 75, 6),Pienaar 6; Anichebe 5 (Gosling 71, 6),Cahill 8.
調書をとる／予約するd: Cahill, Pienaar.

Man of the match: Phil Jagielka.

審判（をする）: Steve Bennett.