Yakubu's a threat to Liverpool ' Dalglish

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish admits Blackburn striker Ayegbeni Yakubu poses a threat at Anfield on Monday, but is confident his in-form defence will keep the Nigerian quiet.Rovers summer signing from Everton has 10 Premier League goals - including four in one match against Swansea three weeks ago - this season.However, the Reds have the most miserly defence in the top flight having conceded just 13 times in 17 league matches and have kept seven clean sheets, five of which have been in the last eight games.Which is why Dalglish is confident of snuffing out Yakubus threat.His goal tally is pretty impressive for a team at the bottom of the table, said the Reds boss.Hes a clinical finisher. He got four against Swansea and got another goal the other night (against Bolton).He is a threat, but then there are a lot of good strikers that Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel have come up against recently and theyve been playing particularly well.We wont be presumptuous that they are going to play well but then again we wont be presuming Yakubu is going to score against us either.It will be a decent game, and it will be a good competition between Yakubu and ourselves.If we take our eye off everyone else and just concentrate on Yakubu then we could find ourselves in trouble, so weve got to be responsible and look after everybody.But he has certainly had a good goalscoring season this year.Liverpool will be looking to improve on their disappointing home record this season when bottom team Blackburn visit.Dalglishs side have won just three times in eight Anfield appearances and the win over QPR on December 10 ended a run of four successive draws at the famous old stadium.
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