Sport 05-12-2002 Liverpool Scrape Through who: Ipswich Town what: Knocked out of Worthington Cup on penalties by Liverpool where: Anfield, LIVERPOOL when: Last night snippet: "Liverpool sneaked through to the Worthington Cup quarter-finals despite another night of defensive horror," says The Guardian. "Jamie Clapham missed Ipswich`s second penalty in the shootout after the First Division strugglers had pushed Liverpool to extra-time." Liverpool`s goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek went from zero to hero. He was pilloried for "one desperate mistake" against Manchester United at the weekend, says The Telegraph, and manager Gérard Houllier threatened to replace him with Chris Kirkland, but the Polish international received massive support from the crowd last night. "It was no surprise when Ipswich went ahead after 14 minutes even though two mistakes helped their cause," says The Sun`s Mike Ellis. Steven Gerrard gave the ball away allowing Tommy Miller to score. "The leveller (a penalty taken by El-Hadji Diouf) came in the 54th minute after Mark Venus sent debut-boy Neil Mellor flying in the box." And with no further goals, despite extra time,it went to a penalty shootout with what Ellis describes as a "fairytale ending for Dudek". And although he didn`t even save a penalty last night, says The Mirror, "he put enough pressure on poor Jamie Clapham - with some subtle time-wasting - to force the unfortunate Ipswich defender into the only miss, when he crashed his attempt against the cross bar." [... more]

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