Date: 8 April 2015 Opposition: Blackburn Rovers
Date: 8 April 2015 Times Telegraph Mail April2015 8 Opposition: Blackburn Rovers Guardian Mirror Echo Competition: FA Cup Independent Lancs Telegraph BBC with relative ease, only for Eastwood to give them a late scare that offered a further reminder of the slim margins of success and failure in which they are Coutinho's class breaks resistance to secure date at Wembley operating. Blackburn Rovers (4-4-1-1): S Eastwood -- A Henley, A Baptiste (sub: T Spurr, Blackburn 0 Liverpool 1 Coutinho 70 80min), M Kilgallon, M Olsson -- C Conway (sub: R Gestede, 65), C Evans, L On the surface, all Liverpool managed last night was to book themselves a place in Williamson, B Marshall -- T Cairney -- J Rhodes. Substitutes: J Steele, Y Sonog'o, R an FA Cup semi-final at the expense of Blackburn Rovers, a team from the Sky Bet Nyambe, D Lenihan, C Mahoney. Booked: Evans. Championship. In reality, it was about rather more. Not only was their season on Liverpool (4-3-3): S Mignolet -- G Johnson, D Lovren, M Sakho (sub: K Toure, 28), A the line, so too were a number of reputations. Liverpool have a trip to Wembley Moreno -- L Leiva, J Allen, J Henderson -- R Sterling, P Coutinho, D Sturridge (sub: to look forward to; more importantly, Brendan Rodgers will be relieved that their R Lambert, 85). Substitutes: B Jones, J Manquillo, F Borini, C Brannagan, L campaign has not hit a dead end. That it has not done so owed much to the Markovic. Booked: Sterling. Referee: K Friend. individual brilliance of Philippe Coutinho, who settled a tense replay with a typical piece of impudence that was at odds with a largely attritional contest.
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