In addition, with Mr. Gerrard struggling in his quarterback-playmaker role, Mr. Hodgson filled his old position, behind the striker, with the newly-acquired Raul Meireles, who himself is more of a traditional box-to-box midfielder and unused to playing so far up.

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Inter Milan defender Maicon floated a 35-yard free-kick into the box and Fiorentina midfielder Melo out-jumped the American defense to head home.

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Bell had to make another good block from Jennings as the Motherwell midfielder powered into the penalty box to gather a cute lay-off from Murphy.

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Davies lofted a free-kick into the box which fell for Etuhu, and the Nigerian midfielder swivelled to fire in a shot that took a massive deflection off Legrottaglie before rolling into the opposite corner.

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However, it was Killie who created the next chance and Arfield made a potentially goal-saving tackle to deny Bryson as the midfielder was found in the penalty box by Jamie Hamill.

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Munoz was next to be found in the clear but Klos produced a superb, one-handed save to block the midfielder's low drive from the edge of the box.

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Substitute Ben May raced to the by-line before picking out the former Wimbledon and Chelsea midfielder arriving late in the box, and he made no mistake with a low drive.

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Gudjonsson, unmarked inside the six-yard box, seemed certain to score as the impressive Thompson headed the ball back across goal towards him but the midfielder's hooked shot lacked power and struck Montgomery, who was facing the other way and knew nothing about it.

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