BLACKPOOL – Goals from Gary Taylor-Fletcher and DJ Campbell helped Blackpool to another sensational 2-1 victory over Liverpool at Bloomfield Road here on Wednesday.
Blackpool came from a goal down after Fernando Torres’s early finish to prove their win by the same scoreline at Anfield in October was no fluke as they pulled off one of the most unexpected ‘doubles’ in the history of the Premier League — their first over Liverpool for 47 years.
The Tangerines are now ninth in the table, four places above Liverpool — something that would have been regarded as all but inconceivable at the start of the season. This was Kenny Dalglish’s first league game in charge of Liverpool for almost 19 years, having seen the Reds lose 1-0 to arch-rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup last weekend, after replacing Roy Hodgson on an interim basis until the end of the season.
“We’ll work away and try to get the confidence we need to produce more positive results,” Dalglish told Sky Sports. “A lot of teams are going to come here and get a really tough game, they’ve done that already. Holloway, the Blackpool manager, added: “It was a fantastic result, a fantastic game and I thought we more played than our part in it. “It looked like the Kenny Dalglish effect was going to sweep us away but my boys just keep going.”
IPSWICH STUN ARSENAL: Arsenal’s hopes of winning their first trophy since 2005 were dented when Championship side Ipswich Town beat them 1-0 at Portman Road here on Wednesday in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final.
A goal in the 78th-minute from recalled forward Tamas Priskin gave the home side a deserved victory, although the Premier League team will still be regarded as favourites to overturn the deficit in the second leg at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday, January 25. Victory for second division strugglers Ipswich was all the more impressive as they came into this match on the back of a 7-0 FA Cup thrashing by holders and Premier League champions Chelsea.
