Carslberg don't do own goals

On Riise:

Going home without an away goal was still, even at that point, not part of his agenda for the evening. Instead he still had the belief and the dogged, never-say-die spirit to look up, whip the ball in and beautifully find Jean-Arne Riise, ghosting in from deep to the near post.

Talk about timing your run to perfection. Look again at the agility with which the Liverpool man gets himself down low. Look at the power he manages to impart behind the header. Look at the inch-perfect placement, wide of Reina and into the roof of the net. Riise probably won't score a better goal in his career. He certainly won't score a more valuable one from our point of view. In front of the Kop, too. Ah, the memories.

Now, obviously there are going to be some people who maintain that Carragher ought to have picked him up. And it does appear that Reina was left fearfully exposed by his central defence at that moment. I'd prefer, though, to give the credit to Riise for eluding his man.

Sometimes a player can come into the box so quickly and from such an acute angle, that not even the best defender in the world would be able to do anything about it. This was one of those occasions.

In other news, John Arne Riise was arrested on the M6. A report from the police said that he was heading the wrong way.