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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 18 (setup 1, season 25)
Rochdale
v.
Liverpool
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
13
Overall form:
Home form:
Roman WEIDENFELLER717Manuel NEUER
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Santiago Cazorla González, SANTI CAZORLA27Daniel Alves da Silva, DANI ALVES
Adil RAMI73Jan VERTONGHEN
DAVID LUIZ Moreira Marinho4Nigel DE JONG
ADRIANO Correia Claro757Javier Alejandro MASCHERANO
Benedikt HÖWEDES66Daniele DE ROSSI
Samuel ETO'O Fils7Franck RIBÉRY
Toni KROOS78Cristiano RONALDO dos Santos Aveiro
Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR9Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC
Antonio DI NATALE710Andrés INIESTA Luján
Ezequiel Iván LAVEZZI117Lionel Andrés MESSI
Rikki FaulknerManagerChris Place
Luciano SLAGVEER12Diego CONTENTO
Karim REKIK13Salvatore SIRIGU
Moritz LEITNER146ALEX Rodrigo Dias da Costa
Álvaro ARBELOA Coca15Layvin KURZAWA
DANILO Luiz da Silva16Simon SKRABB

Rochdale 2 Liverpool 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 59,129, Stadium: Spotland, Referee: Andy D'URSO 5½)
55 Di Natale, 90+2 Di NataleScorers43 Messi, 49 Ibrahimovic
Substitutions88 Mascherano <=> Alex
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners8
7Fouls8
7Offsides7
5Shots on10
7Shots off9
12Total shots19
3Shots saved8
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC
2IBRAHIMOVIC made space on the left and dragged the ball to MESSI who clipped the ball wide.
6ETO'O ran onto a wonderful ball from LAVEZZI but fumbled his effort wide.
8A mix up in the Rochdale defence enabled RONALDO to hammer the ball just wide.
13DI NATALE brought the ball past VERTONGHEN and stabbed a poor shot into the crowd.
28A weak shot from MESSI bounced agonisingly wide.
33The 'keeper dived to his left to save an accurate shot from Liverpool's MESSI.
39The Rochdale 'keeper saved a refined shot from IBRAHIMOVIC.
39A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing Rochdale 'keeper.
43GOAL!! MESSI brought the ball forward, looked up and fired a shot into the Rochdale net. (1-0 Liverpool)
 
49GOAL!! A great dribble from DANI ALVES gave RIBÉRY space on the left and IBRAHIMOVIC poked in his accurate pass. (2-0 Liverpool)
55GOAL!! A long ball from ADRIANO down the middle was collected by the lurking DI NATALE who flicked a left foot shot into the net. (2-1 Liverpool)
57RIBÉRY beat HÖWEDES and hit the ball to IBRAHIMOVIC who toe-poked his shot wide.
62A useful ball from DAVID LUIZ on the right found HUNTELAAR who sliced his shot inches over.
64A twenty-five yard drive from IBRAHIMOVIC caused the Rochdale 'keeper little difficulty.
75HUNTELAAR was put clear by KROOS and he dummied the 'keeper but thrust his shot just beyond the far post.
76HUNTELAAR shot wide.
78A pin-point pass was collected by RONALDO and his deadly shot went narrowly wide.
81A cross from LAVEZZI left ETO'O in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
82IBRAHIMOVIC flicked a right foot shot wide from just outside the area.
83A free-kick from ETO'O raced over.
86MESSI scuffed a simple chance.
90+2GOAL!! An imaginative LAVEZZI played a great ball down the left to DI NATALE who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (2-2)