Welcome to LIVE text coverage of the Premier League clash between Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool at Ewood Park. It's a huge game for relegation-fighting Blackburn, and an equally important match for Liverpool after a wretched run of form.

Orr returns to the field as Jones lumps a long ball straight out of play, and Rovers can build once more.

Orr clashes heads with Skrtel, and the Rovers defender stays down as he receives attention. Phew, time to take a breather!

The hosts keep the ball inside the Liverpool half and attack almost incessantly with the visitors unable to get out of their own box.

Blackburn continue to dominate the play since Liverpool were reduced to 10 men, and Jones is being cheered every time he touches the ball.

It's hard to explain just how bad that penalty was from Yakubu - he gambled on sending Jones the wrong way but got it hopelessly wrong.

PENALTY SAVED! What an awful penalty from Yakubu, who tries to be clever and rolls one of the worst penalties you will ever see straight at Jones - what a hopeless effort!

Brad Jones comes on for Liverpool with the hapless Flanagan rightly making way - what a dreadful game he has had. Yakubu stands over the penalty...

PENALTY TO ROVERS! RED CARD FOR DONI! Hoilett runs through on goal after an atrocious backpass from Flanagan with just the keeper to beat before Doni brings him down and the referee has no choice - Liverpool are down to 10 men and Rovers have a penalty!

Bellamy breaks again at pace, but this time he goes for goal himself and has to hold his hands up as Maxi shows his frustration.

Liverpool stroke the ball around at the back, before Doni hammers a wild clearance straight out of play.

Hoilett is causing havoc in the final third for Rovers, and he's playing between the lines to good effect.

Yakubu wins a free kick as Skrtel brings him down, and Rovers again have a chance to pile bodies forward...

Shelvey makes another lung-busting run into the Rovers half, and the midfielder has been superb so far for Liverpool.

Liverpool have won just one of their five north west derbies away from home in the Premier League this season.

Flanagan hauls down Marcus Olsson yet again, and he is given a stern final warning by the referee with the full-back perhaps fortunate to still be on the pitch.

What a stunning few minutes for Liverpool, who seize control of proceedings with two devastating counter-attacks.

GOAL!!!! MAXI DOUBLES HIS TALLY! Dunn gives the ball away in the Liverpool half before the visitors break upfield with Shelvey's shot saved by Robinson before Rodriguez slams an emphatic finish into the top corner!

Robinson attempts to calm things down as he bides his time over a goal kick, and the travelling supporters are jubilant.

Blackburn have now kept just one clean sheet in their last 18 Premier League games at Ewood Park.

GOAL!!!!! MAXI RODRIGUEZ SCORES! Skrtel lumps a raking long pass upfield to Bellamy, who zips down the right and drills a low cross into the six-yard box for Maxi Rodriguez to tap the ball home!

Flanagan loses the ball to Marcus Olsson before carving down the Rovers midfielder and conceding a free kick which will be crossed into the box. He's booked.