Liverpool and Cardiff and both breaking records

Ok. So we gave it a go. A go against the in form side in the league.  Against the team that is scoring goals so freely even Liverpool supporters are left bewildered and records harking back to the Shankley era are broken.

Mutch on his way to a hat trick ..... well, ok, he didnt get his third goal

Twice ahead in the first half Cardiff matched the premiership best for 45 minutes.

Liverpool scoring is about as reliable as City’s bad luck. Their third goal came about when Cardiff were left to defend with two of their biggest players forced off the pitch, both having had treatment. Could only happen to Cardiff. I cannot think of any game I have watched in the last three hundred years where a team had to defend a corner under such conditions. Cardiff break records, it is just they are not the ones teams want. A season in the premiership without a penalty for example.

Liverpool kept taking the lead as reliably as a German side winning a game on penalties.

Then the rout. The immaculate passing, the incisive one twos and suddenly Liverpool have added another three.

At 5 -2 it looked all over. Well all over to anyone but Solskjaer.

The Cardiff manager told the fat lady to get back in the dressing room, there won’t  be any singing just yet as he  threw the kitchen sink onto the field. Every forward at his disposal was chucked into the line-up. He even took the gamblers risk of leaving Fabio on the pitch to tempt a ref’s red card, simply because of the hot headed defender’s amazing attacking abilities. The Norwegian go t it right. Fabio showed what he can do in attack, unlike Kenwynne Jones, and when Mutch scored City’s third there was a heady air of possibilities. 

Could we get a fourth.

It was non stop attack from the red shirted blue birds, with Liverpool relying on the rare break out. Of course when you have Suarez and Sturridge leading your counter attacks you only need a few options and you score … and they did. 6-3.

If Cardiff play their final matches as they have done against Spurs, Everton and Liverpool, two top, top sides as Malky would put it, then we are going to get points. 

Elsewhere the teams around us had the courtesy to lose, thank you for that, leaving the table exactly where it was at the start of the day. 

So West Brom, Palace, Sunderland and Stoke. Can we ask for 9 points and safety?

Cardiff fans can you concentrate on lifting the team and the players? Let’s leave shirt colours and Tan songs until after the season is over and we are safe.