Liverpool 2 - Blackburn 1 -- A reason to smile?

I'll keep this week's round-up shorter than usual, but I wonder if I should feel gleeful at all?

Thankfully for Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers started without Pascal Chimbonda, Chris Samba, Ryan Nelson and Keith Andrews.

That's like Rover's entire combative line-up.

Even a half-fit David Dunn was imposed into the middle of the pitch, and on paper, you'd have to assume that this is a Blackburn team that's designed to be ripped apart, even with Sam Allardyce at the helm, and I say this with no offence to the team in White and Blue.

Don't get me wrong, Blackburn is a solid, battling team when the full team is on, indeed, but they've never recovered from the loss of

The only thing that made Liverpool look good is the fact that Blackburn was on a lower confidence level and lesser hunger for chasing the win.

Don't get me wrong on Liverpool either, they performed admirably well for the night with two very well constructed goals, although I couldn't say the same of the sole goal conceded.

Again, Kyrgiakos reeked of more terror to the opposing defence than Torres does, and don't it do wonders when you start to give good telling crosses into the box?

Finally a home win for the Reds, and just when you though the manager might allow the players, media and fans to soak it in, he comes out bursting with his own gutful version of a possibly satisfied owner somewhere across the Atlantic ocean.

Me? I dare say that this respite came too soon, and though I hate to sound abjectful, I'm not too sure that Bolton's players will respect Reds with as much space and time on the ball.

I'm pretty sure though that this Liverpool team is capable of performing with much more capacity than what was seen over the weekend.

Anyway with these 3 more points, finally there's a reason to smile again.