Blackburn's defensive gameplan and some brilliant goalkeeping from Friedel hold us to a draw and a replay.
The match was overall quite flat and failed to live up to the expectations given the 6 goals we put past them early this season, but their tactics to defend so deep meant that even with our flair, only so often could we penetrate and get a shot on target, and when that did occasionally happen Brad Friedel played an absolute blinder pulling of a double save to stop Henry and Justin Hoyte from point blank range.
We should have been awarded a penalty with 15 minutes to go when Warnock brought down Jeremie Aliadiere in clear view of the ref and linesman, but although it probably would have saved the need for a replay, I don’t think it will matter for qualification to the next round in the long run. The replay will take place on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 and qualification to the next round would set up a match against Man City.
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