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Before this game,Fernando Torres(below) scored 18goals in total this season so far.And yes,after reading the title,you'd already know Fernando Torres scored a hattrick in the game against Middlesbrough.To be exact,he now scored 21goals this season.
Starting line up;
Liverpool:Only 1 change from the starting lineup that won Inter Milan.Alvaro Aberloa replacing Jamie Carragher(one match suspension)
Middlesbrough:Mark Schwarzer,Luke Young,Emanuel Pogatetz,David Wheater,Jonathan Grounds,Gary O'Neil,Julio Arca,Fabio Rochemback,Stewart Downing,Jeremie Aliadiere,Tuncay Sanli.
There's no video this time,YouTube doesnt allow it anymore. >"<. Liverpool always looked shaky without Jamie Carragher,and Aberloa obviously awkward in that central defence position.Just 9 minutes into the match,Middlesbrough took the lead.Downing with the freekick and Tuncay scored.Liverpool's defence tried to get them offside,but in the end,not only Tuncay was not offside,there were 2 or 3 more weren't.Dirk Kuyt(before this match,he was in a 2goals in 2 matches streak) responded by having an "aeroplane" shot.That's what we called it in cantonese "fei kei'.Why?The shot was like an aeroplane taking off the ground.Sometimes people say gifts sometimes come out from nowhere,for Liverpool,it came out on 28thminute where Julio Arca trying to play the ball back to the keeper with a weak header.Oh boy,Fernando Torres responded the quickest and rounded the keeper and slotted the ball into the net.1-1.Commentary said it was 90 seconds,soccernet said it was 60 seconds.Whichever it was, thats how long it took for Torres to score another one.This time,it was 25yards out and he did a screamer into bottom corner.To be fair,Middlesbrough didnt deserve that scoreline at all after all the hard work closing down Liverpool's players all over the field.15minutes into the second half,Dirk Kuyt launched a 50yard ball towards Fernando Torres.There was hesitation between Wheater and Schwarzer and Fernando Torres took his chance and completed his hattrick.From there onwards,each touch by Torres was looking dangerous.Yossi Benayoun came in for Ryan Babel,Riise for Dirk Kuyt and Alfonso Alves replaced Tuncay.83th minute,Downing grabbed a lifeline for his side by hitting his shot through Reina's leg.So it's 3-2!Drama,drama,drama.Middlesbrough looked as if they were going to get an equaliser.As described by the commentators;a moment of stupidity happened.Frenchman Jeremie Aliadiere responded to Mascherano's provoke with a slap to the Argentine's face.To the joy of the Kop's crowd,the young Frenchman got sent off.Replay showed that Mascherano did pat on Jeremie Aliadiere's face.
Manager Gareth Southgate's comments on the red card as quoted below:
"That is a lesson for Jeremie. He is young and will learn from that.He hardly floored the opponent but you have to accept in the modern game that if you do something like that, and it is in front of a young referee, you will be sent off.The biggest punishment for him will be missing three games and knowing we now have plenty of competition for forward positions."
Asked about the game,he said: "We feel we have given Liverpool a hell of a game and we did enough, we felt, to have taken something from the match"
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