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Premiership

Dramatic Red draw

AFP, Birmingham
Football
Birmingham teenager Nell Kilkenny was sent off on his Premiership debut as Liverpool grabbed a late equaliser in a dramatic 2-2 draw with Birmingham hereon Saturday.
Kilkenny, 19, received a straight red card after punching Jamie Carragher's goal-bound header off the line with eight minutds left, conceding a penalty that Djibril Cisse converted to earn the European champions their fourth draw from five Premiership matches
this season.
A Stephen Warnock own goal and Walter Pandiani's first of the season had put Birmingham on track for all three points after Luis Garcia had come off the bench to give Liverpool the lead.
But the visitors' late pressure paldoffandthey could have cl aimed victory when an unmarked Peter Crouch headed Cisse's superb cross over the bar from six yards in the closingstagcs.
Birmingham manager Steve Bruce had been forced to deploy Kilkenny in a midfield missing Muzzy Izzet, Jiri Jarosik. Stephen Clemence, David Dunn and'Nicky Butt because of cither injury or
suspension.
Liverpool meanwhile were showing three changes from the side which had held Manchester United to a goalessdrawon Sunday.
Joscmi, Dietmar Hamann and Boudewijn Zenden came back into the starting line-up with Steve Finnan, Luis Garcia and John Arne Riisc making way.
The dramatic finale to the match could not have contrasted more sharply with an uninspiring first , half, in which Steven Gerrard came ' closest to breaking the deadlock.
The England midfielder's 25-yard drive beat Birmingham goalkeeper MaikTaylor but could not get
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the better of the post, rebounding to safety.
Three minutes earlier, Emile HeskcyliadproducedBirming-ham's best effort of the opening period, although his low shot lacked real menace and lose Reina was able to save relatively comfortably.
Bruce's side displayed far greater ^elf-belief Immediately after the interval but the increased tempo foiled to deliver any clear-cut chances and it was Liverpool who brought the game to life by taking die lead after the introduction of Luis Garcia just after the hour mark.
Sami Hyypia's long ball was chested down by Peter Crouch to Gerrard, whose first time pass sent Luis Garcia clear of the flat-footed Birmingham back-four.
The Spaniard finished with aplomb with a low left-foot shot from thcedgeofthearea.
Birmingham were staring a fourth straight home defeat in the face, only for two extraordinary blunders from Liverpool to hand the initiative back to thehometeam.
First Warnock, seeking to intercept Iulian Gray'scrossfromtherightofthe box, deflected the ball inside Reina at his near post and into the net.
Then, three minutes later, the .Spanish goalkeeper spilled an Emile Heskey header that was''diretted straight at him. Kilkenny was first to the rebound and although hisattempt was blocked by Reina, substitute Pandiani was on hand to bundle the ballintothenet.
zV that stage it looked like being a dream debut for Kilkenny. But it all went sour for the youn^ter with eight minutes left. Carragher's header cannoned off the bar and was bound forthebackofthenetvia Reina's heel when Kilkenny, standing on the line, instinctively palmed the ball away.
Referee Steve Bennett had no option but to pull out his red card and Cisse sent Taylor the wrong way from the resultingpenalty.
Crouch will, have been frustrated not to have taken his late chance but a draw was probablyjustabout the right result.