Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I mahue a Brendan Rodgers ki te tangi i te raupapa o nga whakataunga whiu i pa ki a Liverpool i te mea i mau ratou ki te 0-0 FA Cup quarter-final draw na Blackburn. I whakaaro te rangatira o te Reds ka taea e tana taha te whakawhiwhia ki nga waahi e rua i roto i te whakataetae whakataetae nui i Anfield i reira i tiakina ai e te taha o te Championship kia tiakina ai te tukinga i Ewood Park. I korero a Rodgers ki a BT Sport i muri i te keemu: 'He tino, tino pai ta raatau tiaki, ana ka nui o nga tinana kei muri i te poi - he tino maia ratou, he poraka kei roto - ana i whakaaro ahau me whai whiu taatau. He ahua pouri a Brendan Rodgers i te tukinga kore-whaainga a Liverpool ki a Blackburn i te Ratapu. Ko Rodgers (pokapū) me tana hoa a Gary Bowyer e mihi ana ki te mano i mua i te tukinga o te FA Cup i Anfield. I āwangawanga te rangatira o te Reds i muri i te wehenga o te kaitautoko a Martin Skrtel i runga i te taraka i te tīmatanga. Ko Kolo Toure (matau) i eke ki muri o te kupenga mo te Reds i te haurua tuatahi engari i whakakorea tana whiu mo te taha o waho. 'I roto i ngā kēmu pēnei i ētahi wā i roto i ngā meneti 20 tuatahi, mēnā ka taea e koe te piro tuatahi, ka whakatuwheratia te kēmu. Ko te whiu kotahi a Arama Lallana he whiu mārama. Kei te hoki mai te kaitautoko ki roto, engari kei te taha hē ia, ā, kāore e taea e ia te tiki i te pōro, nō reira, mōku, he whiu tērā. 'Ka taea e koe te tautohe ina [Rudy] Gestede handballs reira i te header i te free-kick, i taea e matou i tetahi atu whiu, a i ētahi wā e hiahia ana koe i taua iti o te waimarie. 'Kei a rātau ētahi kaitākaro pai - he raruraru ta Gestede ki a koe i mua - engari i whakaaro ahau i te nuinga, i tino pai ta mātou mahi ki tērā. 'I whakaaro ahau pea ko te koi i ngaro i roto i to tatou kēmu, me te mea iti o te whakaekenga. Engari he mihi ki ngā kaitākaro, i pupuri rātou i tētahi whārangi ma, ā, ko te whāinga kia noho ki roto i te potae mō te rauna e whai ake nei i te mutunga o te ahiahi, ā, ko te mea kei roto i a mātou.' He whakaoranga tino pai a Simon Mignolet (pokapū) hei huri i te upoko o Alex Baptiste i te haurua tuarua. Ko te kaitiaki o Blackburn a Matthew Kilgallon (maui) e kii ana kaore i tika te whiu a Liverpool mo tenei wero ki te kaikawe a Reds...
I whakatangihia a Liverpool ki Blackburn i te ahiahi o te Ratapu 0-0. Ka tū te tukinga anō o te hauwhā o te FA Cup ki Ewood Park. I mahue te rangatira o Reds a Brendan Rodgers i te wa o te whiti whakamutunga. I whakaaro a Rodgers me whakawhiwhia tana taha ki te rua o nga patunga-a-ringa. Ko te kaitautoko o Rovers a Matt Kilgallon - kei waenganui i nga karanga whiu whiu e rua - e kii ana ko te mea e pa ana ki a Sturridge ehara i te whiu whiu.