Liverpool remain in the Premier League relegation zone after loss to Blackpool – FreeBetting Sports News

Perhaps we shouldn’t have been so surprised that the Premier League new boys were able to come away from Anfield with a win on Sunday. After all, Liverpool had only managed one win in six matches before this game and the Reds were also embarrassingly dumped out of the Carling Cup by Northampton.

Even so, the general feeling was that Roy Hodgson’s team would prove too strong for a Tangerines team that had been thumped 6-0 by Arsenal and then gone down 4-0 before half-time at Stamford Bridge. This time around, Ian Holloway employed an attacking formation and it worked a treat with Charlie Adam converting from the penalty spot on the half hour mark to put the visitors ahead.

It was to get even better for the thousands of Tangerines supporters who made he short trip to Merseyside on Sunday. Luke Varney beat the offside trap and slotted home past Pepe Reina to give Blackpool an unthinkable 2-0 lead, with the home team roundly booed off at the interval.

It appeared that a comeback could be on the cards when Sotiros Kyrgiakos headed home a Steven Gerrard corner to reduce the arrears, although it was the away side that could have won by a bigger margin in the end. This result takes Blackpool to ninth in the table and leaves Liverpool in the bottom three with Wolves and West Ham.