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Owen closes gap


Liverpool have a home win at last, just in authentic canada goose jacket sale time to avoid their worst run of league results at Anfield for half a century, and possibly in time to resurrect their Champions League ambitions.

This victory over Bolton Wanderers, who faded badly in the second half, lifts Liverpool to within three points of fourth-placed Everton, with the Goodison derby still to come.

David Moyes, the Everton manager, will average cost canada goose jacket not have seen too much to scare him here, however canada goose sale, and neither will scouts from Celtic, Liverpool's opponents in the first leg of the Battle of Britain in their Uefa Cup quarter-final at Parkhead on Thursday.

Liverpool were dull and defensive throughout, and a shade lucky to turn round in front through a controversial opening goal.

Some of the pressure has been lifted from Liverpool with European qualification via the Worthington Cup, yet despite Michael Owen's plea for a more attacking approach, Gérard Houllier was not ready to throw caution to the wind.

Looking for their first home win in the league since early November, against a relegation-threatened team they beat at the Reebok Stadium, Owen was again alone up buy canada goose jacket winnipeg front in a defensive looking 4-5-1 formation. Emile Heskey was unavailable because of injury, but Houllier could still have pushed El-Hadji Diouf or Vladimir Smicer farther forward than wide midfield, and Milan Baros had to be content with a place on the bench after scoring twice in the 3-2 win over Bolton in September.

Just as the home side did not look like the winners of the season's first silverware, the visitors did not look like a side with relegation worries.

Bolton had just returned from a week of warm-weather training in Dubai and while it would be stretching it to say they played the first half-hour as if they were still strolling about in the sun, they certainly demonstrated all the artistry and poise.

Liverpool were left looking rather square and robotic as Jay-Jay Okocha, Ricardo Gardner and even Ivan Campo moved the ball about swiftly and intelligently, and Djimi Traoré twice had to make telling interventions in front of goal. Bernard Mendy brought the first save of the game from Jerzy Dudek and Gardner saw a shot blocked by Jamie Carragher before Liverpool registered their first serious goal attempt after 31 minutes.

Sami Hyypia can you wash a canada goose jacket in the washer missed the target with a free header from Didier Hamann's cross, but it should have served as a warning to Bolton. Liverpool had barely threatened up to that point, yet could easily have taken the lead. buy canada goose jacket online canada As if disturbed by the miss, Hyypia was guilty of a howler in his own penalty a minute later, passing the ball canada goose coat $5000 no credit check signature loans to the dangerous Salva Ballesta but getting away with it when Gardner scuffed his shooting chance.

Ballesta was appalled to be booked for diving three minutes before the interval, bu sees a spike in canada goose jacket thefts when it looked fairly clear he had been obstructed by Hyypia, and Bolton were left in no doubt that fate was against them when Liverpool went ahead on the stroke of half-time.

This time Owen was given space to gather John Arne Riise's searching pass and bear down on Jussi Jaaskelainen and, though the striker lifted the ball goalwards over the advancing goalkeeper, it was headed over the line by Diouf from what could only have been an offside position.

To a man the Bolton players appealed to the linesman, then the referee, arguing that as Diouf was behind the goalkeeper and practically on the line there could not have been anyone playing him onside. Graham Barber listened to their complaints, but gave the goal after further consultation with his assistant.

At least there was no controversy about Liverpool's second. Bolton had just wasted canada goose coat 1000 bulbs coupons two decent opportunities to equalise - Campo blasting the ball over the bar, and Ballesta reacting too slowly when Youri Djorkaeff gave him a clear sight of goal - when Steven Gerrard can i wash my canada goose coat threaded a pass through for Diouf that Simon Charlton thought he could cut out but then realised, too late, that he could not clear.

Diouf showed persistence in retrieving the ball from Charlton, then presence of mind in canada goose coat 1000 calorie meal plans skipping along the goalline and cutting the ball back to allow Owen a close range tap-in.

Houllier immediately withdrew Gerrard and replaced him with Salif Diao. There was a time when such a defensive substitution in a winning position would have been greeted with derision at Anfield, yet here there was only polite applause.

Either Liverpool supporters have all the patience in the world and are right behind their infinitely patient manager, or they have simply learnt to be grateful for anything.

Liverpool (4-5-1) : Dudek; Carragher, Traoré, Hyypia, Riise; Diouf, Murphy, Gerrard (Diao 71), Hamann, Smicer (Cheyrou 58); Owen. Subs not used: Arphexad, Baros, Biscan.

Bolton Wanderers (4-4-2) : Jaaskelainen; N'Gotty, Laville, Bergsson, Charlton; Campo, Mendy (André 61), Okocha, Gardner, Djorkaeff, Ballesta (Nolan 70). Subs not used: Poole, Barness, Frandsen.

Referee : G.Barber (Tring).



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