Super Sunday and indeed Monday Night Football were held in the North West this week; Super Sunday opened with the biggest Merseyside derby for years and culminated in a 'derby' between Blackpool and Manchester City. Monday Night Football was hosted at Ewood Park as Blackburn took on Sunderland.
Liverpool's new owners were at the game for the biggest Merseyside derby, in terms of league positions, for years. But unfortunately for John Henry and company Liverpool failed to rise to the occasion. Form the get go Everton started the brighter team and looked to attack Liverpool's fragile defence. The usual suspects looked fed up and uninterested in the game for Liverpool and Tim Howard was relatively unchallenged. Everton took full advantage of their great start with a darting run from Seamus Coleman who picked out a cross for Cahill to strike home after 34 minutes. The goal didn't seem to rejuvenate Liverpool and Everton finished the game off five minutes into the second half with a beautiful strike from Mikel Arteta from the edge of a crowded box after a cleared corner. This leaves Liverpool in further turmoil with the owners not looking terribly pleased with their new property.
Manchester City moved into second with more controversial circumstances; Blackpool ironically were much the better team, especially in the first half but missed glorious chances to take the lead. It took till the 67th minute for the deadlock to be broken thanks to a delicate touch from Carlos Tevez past Matt Gilks, however replays showed Tevez was offside and therefore it shouldn't have been allowed. Blackpool equalised in the 78th minute with a delicate back header from substitute Marlon Harewood. But they weren't level for long as City went back up the other end and Tevez scored again, but again there looked to be an infringement as Tevez looked to have fouled the defender and again maybe it shouldn't have been allowed. City then wrapped up the points when substitute David Silva made a fantastic double dummy before using Adam as a wall to guide his shot round into the corner of the net. Blackpool gained another consolation when Gary Taylor-Fletcher netted from close range deep into stoppage time.
Monday Night Football witnessed a poor 0-0 between Blackburn and Sunderland. Blackburn did well to secure a point after Christopher samba was shown a straight red just before half-time. Sunderland couldn't make the man advantage pay with Asamoah Gyan coming closest to scoring, hitting the post in the second half.
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