Liverpool made good advantage of the first leg against Manchester City, where he won 1-0, and tie with two goals tonight has qualified for the finals of the Carling Cup, to be held at Wembley Stadium.
In the match played at Anfield tonight, it was expected that the City mordant to trace out the tie, but it was the home team who started controlling the leather and featuring several occasions that the goalkeeper Hart, superb throughout the match, commissioned to disrupt.
He also arranged for a team approach citizen, without deserving it, in minute 31 was found with a genuine goal by Nigel De Jong of the Dutch, who after making a tremendous shot almost from the ground after slid, slipped the ball through the very squad making it impossible for Reina to the ball.
With this goal the City equalized the tie but just nine minutes later, Micah Richards stopped the ball with his hand on the goal after a shot from the point of Agger penalty that the referee pointed to the penalty. The manager was running it, who else the Reds captain Steven Gerrard of which put the tie to a goal, returning the lead in the tie for his team. This led to time off.
The second half started with the offensive by the change that ushered Mancini Sergio Kun Agüero by central defender Savic, clearly showing that they were going to the game.
Despite this, the team that went to the rival goal in these first few minutes was Liverpool, which if left on the scoreboard, especially in the hand of the former City of Craig Bellamy was the recital of stops offered by Joe Hart.
This continued until 67 minutes, Bosnian Edin Dzeko could it 1-2 for his team, thus returning the possibility of extension for the City, since in the Carling Cup, the away goals scored during the 90 minutes without double value, and if they are not being scored in extra time of the extension.
Faced with this marker Dalglish also encouraged his players to come to the goal, being a few minutes very intense and full of emotion and tension.
The highlight for the parish of Anfield came on 74 minutes when Bellamy, who was contesting a great match, achieved the goal of qualifying for Liverpool after making a nice wall with Johnson after his partner who beat Hart with a low shot.
From this point, the Manchester City tried but failed and Liverpool managed to qualify for the finals of the Carling Cup, played against Cardiff City.