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The Reds play Deportivo Saprissa tomorrow morning. Full match
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Opponents : Deportivo Saprissa
Date : Thursday December 15 @ 10.20 am GMT
Venue : Yokohama - this ground hosted the world cup final three
years ago and has a capacity of 72,370
TV Coverage : BBC Two, Setanta Ireland, ART Sport 4, Sport Italia,
Viasat Sport 1, Sport+, Sport TV, NTV+ Football, Supersport 3SA,
SportN

Deportivo Saprissa are the Reds' first opponents in the
Championship. Their history is that they were formed back in 1935 in
San Jose, Costa Rica.

Honours wise they have won 23 Costa Rican league titles. That have
twice won the Central American Championships and won the CONCACAF on
three occassions. They last won that earlier this year which is how
they qualified for the tournament. In order to play the Reds they
have so far beaten Sydney United 1-0.

The club was recently bought out when in 2003 Jorge Vergara took
control. He hails from Mexico and also owns Chivas USA. The teams'
head coach is Hernan Medord and star player for them is striker
Ronald Gomez. The side is best known to people as the Purple
Monsters.

Squads :

Liverpool : Jerzy Dudek, Stephen Warnock, Steve Finnan, Sami Hyypia,
John Arne Riise, Harry Kewell, Steven Gerrard, Djibril Cisse, Luis
Garcia, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Jose Reina, Scott Carson, Xabi
Alonso,Peter Crouch, Didi Hamann, Josemi, Fernando Morientes, Djimi
Traore, Momo Sissoko, Jamie Carragher.

Saprissa : GK : Jose Porras, Fausto Gonzalez, Keylor Navas

Def : Victor Cordero, Ronald Gonzalez, Jervis Drummond, Reynaldo
Parks, Juan Esquivel, Andres Nunez, Gabriel Badilla, Jose Fonseca,
Tray Bennett

Mid : Christian Bolanos, Walter Centeno, Pablo Brenes, Alonso Solis,
Saul Phillips, Jose Luis Lopez, Randall Azofeifa

Str : Allan Aleman, Ronald Gomez, Alvaro Saborio, Gerold Drummond

Team Stats : This is the third time the Reds have taken part in the
World Club Championship. The other two occasions the Reds have lost
in 1981 and 1984. Flamengo defeated the Reds 3-0 in December 1981.
Then in 1984 Independientes defeated the Reds by a single goal to
nil in Tokyo.

A win for the Reds would be the 50th win under the reign of Rafa
Benitez. This is his 90th game in charge of the Reds.

Should the Reds keep a clean sheet in this game it will set a new
club record of eleven clean sheets on the bounce. They last conceded
a goal against Crystal Palace when going out fo the League cup on
October 25th. If the Reds last at least 75 minutes of the game
without conceding it will take them past the 1000 minute marker.

Player Stats : Luis Garcia will hope to score his 20th goal for the
Reds in this game.

Fernando Morientes is one goal shy of double figures in a Liverpool
shirt.

John Arne Riise will be looking to start his tenth match of the
season in this one.

Florent Sinama Pongolle will hope to play in his 10th match of the
season.

Steven Gerrard and Djibril Cisse lead the scoring charts for the
Reds this season. They both have 11 goals each.

Betting : Liverpool 4/11, Saprissa 7/1, Draw : 11/4

Overall Tournament Odds : Liverpool 10/11, Saprissa 11/1

Liverweb Prediction : Liverpool 2 Deportivo Saprissa 0

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