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March 5, 1986 Liverpool 2 QPR 2
From a Liverpool Site
Liverpool 2 QPR 2
(agg 2-3)
Milk Cup Semi final second leg 1985-86
Recently, i obtained a tape fom a mate of mine with the whole 90 minutes of this milk cup semi. Now it was interesting to note how King kenny's eventual double winners played at the time, compared to our up and down fortunes presently. Of course the side back then, although had offdays, were very consistent, but im drawing on what i saw in the 90 minutes.
With Liverpool already a goal down from the first leg through a Fenwick goal, against the run of play, many predicted a straightforward victory for the reds. I remember watching this game as a ten year old, eagerly anticipating an onlslaught from my hereos, but ending up being absoloutely gutted.
There was no Paul Walsh for this leg, his injury sustained earlier in the month kept him out, and in those days you only had one sub anyway compared to three today, that day it was warky, and he lined up with Grobs, beglin, hansen, Gillespie, Lawrenson, Molby, Whelan, McMahon, Johnston, Rush and Sammy Lee. Liverpool as expected dominated things without really testing the opposition, it was interesting to see, on this occasion, how many times Liverpool gave the ball away, in particular Whelan, who as everyone knows was a fantastic passer of the ball. But the man who caught my eye was Molby, he was deceptively fast, i mean he glided past QPR at times and his raking 40 yard passes are still a joy to behold even now, watching on video. its a shame he couldnt convert the only real chance of note in the first 30 minutes, a dubious penalty after Ian Dawes had handled outside the box, but Molby hit it straight at Barron. With QPR sitting deep and attempting to hit on the break with Robinson (ex red) and Bannister, we found it hard to break them down. Just a note here again on speed, how fast was Robinson? On many occasions he outsripped for pace Liverpools backline, and Hansen, Lawrenson and beglin were no slouches. An interesting comparison while the first half was closing was just how good Mark Lawrenson was. He could dribble, he could pass, half the time he was attacking QPRS 18 yard box, and was always along with Molby and McMahon at the core of Liverpools attacking, astonishing for a centre half. Gillespie covered with Hansen while lawro made forays into Rangers half, something you just dont see at Anfield anymore.
Anyway gettin on, it looked like Rangers had stifled enough up to half time, with only a snapshot from the ineffective Rushie, being well marked by the dirty Fenwick (and he was, on several occasions he left the boot in) until Big Jan pulled out a peach of a through ball to send macca through to cooly finish. 1-0 half time.
Second half and QPR abandoned there deep lying stance a little and started to cause problems. As Liverpool got pushed back rangers started making openings, unfortunately for us a defensive mix up between Beglin and Whelan, with Beglin whacking a clearence against Whelan cannoning off him past Grobbelaar to make it 1-1. Not quite the scripts brucie had in mind, especially after the pressure on him from the previous spurs game where he had gifted Waddle the opener. So at 1-1 the reds lifted the tempo a bit and with Molby raking passes left right and centre they soon created the second with what can only be described as an up and under. Brucie fired the ball deep into qprs half, rush flicked on and skippy flicked it over the onrushing keeper to make it 2-1. it was the first thing of real note skippy had done in this match, as he was forced into doing little with a double marking job on him by the QPR defence. So at 2-1 it looked like the reds would force it into a replay, but a shrewd sub by Jim Smith, replacing bannister with fereday (another lightening paced player) created the opening for the equaliser. It was Fereday who provided the cross for Robinson, only forGillepie to steal infront of him to steer the ball home in the last few minutes to send us out. At the time i was gutted and watched the Milk Cup final with glee as Oxford stuffed them 3-0 with our very own Houghton scoring.
Daglish was unhappy and awknowledged that we hadnt deserved to go through but promised better next game, a game we duly delivered on the run in to winning the league, thrashing QPR 4-1.
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March 5, 1986 Liverpool 2 QPR 2
From a Liverpool Site
Liverpool 2 QPR 2
(agg 2-3)
Milk Cup Semi final second leg 1985-86
Recently, i obtained a tape fom a mate of mine with the whole 90 minutes of this milk cup semi. Now it was interesting to note how King kenny's eventual double winners played at the time, compared to our up and down fortunes presently. Of course the side back then, although had offdays, were very consistent, but im drawing on what i saw in the 90 minutes.
With Liverpool already a goal down from the first leg through a Fenwick goal, against the run of play, many predicted a straightforward victory for the reds. I remember watching this game as a ten year old, eagerly anticipating an onlslaught from my hereos, but ending up being absoloutely gutted.
There was no Paul Walsh for this leg, his injury sustained earlier in the month kept him out, and in those days you only had one sub anyway compared to three today, that day it was warky, and he lined up with Grobs, beglin, hansen, Gillespie, Lawrenson, Molby, Whelan, McMahon, Johnston, Rush and Sammy Lee. Liverpool as expected dominated things without really testing the opposition, it was interesting to see, on this occasion, how many times Liverpool gave the ball away, in particular Whelan, who as everyone knows was a fantastic passer of the ball. But the man who caught my eye was Molby, he was deceptively fast, i mean he glided past QPR at times and his raking 40 yard passes are still a joy to behold even now, watching on video. its a shame he couldnt convert the only real chance of note in the first 30 minutes, a dubious penalty after Ian Dawes had handled outside the box, but Molby hit it straight at Barron. With QPR sitting deep and attempting to hit on the break with Robinson (ex red) and Bannister, we found it hard to break them down. Just a note here again on speed, how fast was Robinson? On many occasions he outsripped for pace Liverpools backline, and Hansen, Lawrenson and beglin were no slouches. An interesting comparison while the first half was closing was just how good Mark Lawrenson was. He could dribble, he could pass, half the time he was attacking QPRS 18 yard box, and was always along with Molby and McMahon at the core of Liverpools attacking, astonishing for a centre half. Gillespie covered with Hansen while lawro made forays into Rangers half, something you just dont see at Anfield anymore.
Anyway gettin on, it looked like Rangers had stifled enough up to half time, with only a snapshot from the ineffective Rushie, being well marked by the dirty Fenwick (and he was, on several occasions he left the boot in) until Big Jan pulled out a peach of a through ball to send macca through to cooly finish. 1-0 half time.
Second half and QPR abandoned there deep lying stance a little and started to cause problems. As Liverpool got pushed back rangers started making openings, unfortunately for us a defensive mix up between Beglin and Whelan, with Beglin whacking a clearence against Whelan cannoning off him past Grobbelaar to make it 1-1. Not quite the scripts brucie had in mind, especially after the pressure on him from the previous spurs game where he had gifted Waddle the opener. So at 1-1 the reds lifted the tempo a bit and with Molby raking passes left right and centre they soon created the second with what can only be described as an up and under. Brucie fired the ball deep into qprs half, rush flicked on and skippy flicked it over the onrushing keeper to make it 2-1. it was the first thing of real note skippy had done in this match, as he was forced into doing little with a double marking job on him by the QPR defence. So at 2-1 it looked like the reds would force it into a replay, but a shrewd sub by Jim Smith, replacing bannister with fereday (another lightening paced player) created the opening for the equaliser. It was Fereday who provided the cross for Robinson, only forGillepie to steal infront of him to steer the ball home in the last few minutes to send us out. At the time i was gutted and watched the Milk Cup final with glee as Oxford stuffed them 3-0 with our very own Houghton scoring.
Daglish was unhappy and awknowledged that we hadnt deserved to go through but promised better next game, a game we duly delivered on the run in to winning the league, thrashing QPR 4-1.
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