Origi saves Liverpool's blushes late on as Mignolet and poor defending hurt Liverpool

Liverpool 2 West Bromwich Albion 2

Blog by dedlfc (David Douglas

Pre Match Thoughts: Tony Pulis always has his teams set up in a compact and defensive shape hoping to create havoc at set-pieces and they went into this game this was no difference.

It was down to us to unlock this this team lying and well structured defence, ensuring not to leave ourselves exposed to the physical power of West Brom striker Rondon. With Coutinho in the team it was hoped we had the perfect player to unlock the defence.  It was also nice to see our captain back in the side.

Phil's first touch was a snappy one time into Lallana from the left sideline, and then he followed it up with a scintillating little dribble working his way out of his own half through two would be markers.

We broke the deadlock through great awareness by Lallana,  with a cushioned header down from Coutinho's cross finding Henderson whose excellent run was rewarded with a cool confident finish. Captain back with a vital opener.

With a third of the match gone and producing nice passing segments we threatened a second goal.

Unfortunately, all the good was undone, when we conceded the equaliser from a corner with Mignolet misjudging the cross and flappied and from the ensuing melee defender Dawson scrambled the ball home.

Mignolet, with senses scrambled, then proceeded to do everything possible to create a second chance for West Brom with his nervous control of the ball and kicking.

Lallana then produced a great ball to which Benteke made no effort to try and attack – there is nothing else you can do but produce these type of crosses and hope that he reacts to attack the cross.

As the half closed controversy reined.  Can gave away a silly free kick which subsequently is played into the area and steered home by Jonas Olsson but after conferring with the assistant referees the goal was disallowed. After looking at replays it was the correct decision but we were still very fortunate as it seemed to take an age for the goal to be disallowed.

Halftime: Very poor goalkeeping and a set piece scare aside, this one's been good for the Reds.

The pace of the ball and runs from midfield were promising. Without the calamitous mistakes at the back his game should've been headed towards a Red victory. Our half-time team talk should involve getting more movement from Benteke.

At the start of the second half someone should have told the West Brom players that it is supposed to be our game to press their centre backs not theirs!!! They increased the pressure on our defence minute by minute.

Our tempo in the first half completely disappeared with not enough urgency being shown.

Couple of half chances with Benteke heading over and Lovren also heading over, but despite having 83 percent possession we lacked the cutting to through West Brom's stubborn defence.

Milner looks in a spot of bother with his knee

A badly twisted knee by Milner looked likely to end his game early, but he bravely got up and continued despite the fear of ligament damage

We did not heed the warnings from the disallowed goal late in the first half when a pitch perfect corner from West Brom left back Chris Brunt is headed home by defender Olsson. 1-2 with just over 15 mins left.

To add injury to insult we then had Dejan Lovren scythed down.  It looks a very, very bad one.

There was a lot of blood and he looked in excruciating pain. The look on our players faces while looking at Lovren on the groung told everyone that the injury was a very bad one

Lovren consoled by Skrtel after a really bad knee injury

With Origi now on Lallana was played through on goal for the vital equaliser but he fluffed his lines when he hit straight at the keeper when it just needed a cute little dink over the oncoming keeper (Dalglish –style)

The game began to frustrate with West Brom having nothing to offer aside from those set pieces and Liverpool having it all stitched up aside from poor finishing.

Gunning for that desperate equalizer...

***GOAL*** Origi in the 96^th minute !! It was a scrappy deflected effort but all that matters is that the ball went in the back of the net for us to scrape a 2-2 draw rather than lose a game which we should win!

It was fantastic to see Klopp rounding up the troops to say thanks for the support to our fans who were exceptionally vocal in the second half of this game.

Klopp leads his troops to say thanks to the fans

Man of the match – Jordan Henderson

He led from the front and came back into the side with the opening goal and intelligent running when needed and was a steadier influence throughout the panic of going 2-1 down.

After match thoughts – Our keeper’s constant mistakes are killing us slowly – we should really think of giving Bogdan a run as he couldn’t do much worse than Mignolet at the moment.

Our overall defending is very poor and I am hoping that we can bring in a world class defender such as Matt Hummels in January to shore up the defence.

Benteke again deserves criticism as he did not do enough to be a threat and frighten the West Brom defence by trying to get behind them – they prefer their opposition to play in front of their back line and Benteke was very accommodating with his lack of movement.

The work-rate and movement of Divock Origi now deserves a run in the side to see what he can do in the absence of Daniel Sturridge until the transfer window becomes available to see whether we can get another intelligent striker with great movement.

Our home form is killing our chance of getting into the top four or even making an outside chance attempt of winning the title this season.

LFC Starting XI: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Lovren, Moreno, Can, Milner, Henderson, Lallana, Coutinho, Benteke

Subs: Bogdan, Toure, Firmino, Lucas, Allen, Origi, Ibe

WBA Starting XI: Myhill, Dawson, McAuley, Olsson, Evans, Brunt, Fletcher, Gardner, McClean, Morrison, Rondon

Subs: Chester, Gnabry, McManaman, Berahino, Lambert, Anichebe

Attendance: 44,147

Referee: Craig Pawson

Manager's views:-  "It feels like 98% of our goals conceded come from set-pieces. We defended well and it was  not an easy game to play in. I'm satisfied, because it was the perfect finish for this game. One point was the minimum we deserved. A draw I can live with"