And again, we find a much-needed three points over the weekend which takes Liverpool from the bottom eight into the top half.
Bellamy may be going through some personal frustration as he waits to add to the solitary Champions League qualifying round strike against Maccabi Haifa that signalled an ideal start to his Anfield career but one he hasn’t been able to build on.
Against Spurs he had a simple tap-in after some mesmerising wing work from Steven Gerrard teed him up, but could only hit the post. While relieved to see Gonzalez follow up and make the miss irrelevant, it clearly wasn’t to Bellamy, whose reluctance to join his team-mates’ party by the corner flag was soon snapped out of him by Kuyt’s words of encouragement.
Teamwork at its best. After all, Bellamy’s blunder didn’t affect the most important issue of Liverpool getting the platform they needed to make victory against their unambitious visitors a formality from that point.
Source: Daily Post
Gonzales (63), Kuyt (73)
Riise (89)
