Friday, November 24, 2006

Tranmere - Blackpool 2-0 (1-0)

Prenton Park, 24.11.06
Att: 8 247

Blackpool were unbeaten in 7 matches prior to this match. Personally I thought that we definitly could get three points, but just a point wouldn't surprised me... Thankfully my negative thoughts stopped haunting me after, eh.... 55 seconds :)
That was the time that Rovers needed to be in front. Shuker crossed the ball in form the right, it went straight through everyone, and to the left. There Steven Davies shot/crossed the ball back in, were it found Greenacre at the far post. He easily made i 1-0. The atmosphere was reallly good the next ten minutes as the Blackpool fans contributed very much. The rest of the half was not very good from a Rovers viewpoint. We played badly and couldn't get a foot in. Blackpool enjoyed most of the posession, but didn't manage to have a clear chance. I have to admit though, that they should had a penalty when Goodison tripped one of their strikers, but thankfully the referee had a different opinion...
The second half was very much an improvement, and Rovers controlled the game, had most of the posession, and were very confident. Blackpool tried to play some neat football, but it stopped when they saw the sight of goal. Tranmere secured the three points after some good work by Shuker and Greenacre. Shuker crossed in from the left, their goalie really should have held the ball, but didn't. Greenacre got the ball with his back to the goal, passed it to Davies, who shot the ball through some Blackpool-defenders and into the back of the net for his first goal of the season! Adrian Forbes nearly helped Rovers to score a third, as his cross into his own penalty area (!) caught the defence off-guard. Gareth Taylor twice had a shot, but both was blocked. All in all a very good performance, and we're 2nd in the league!!!
MOM: Ian Goodison, he is so confident!

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