[Liverweb] Bolton Match Preview

Liverweb Match Preview

Opponents : Bolton Wanderers
Date : Sunday April 9 @ 14.00
Venue : Anfield
TV Coverage : Sky Sports 1, Supersport 3, Supersport 8SA, ART Sport
2, Canal + D/F/N/S, TV8 Turkey, Diema 2, NTV+ Sport On-Line, C+
Deporte 3, Sport 2 HU, Digit Alb 5, Sky Sport Italia 3, Sky Calcio
11, TPS Foot, C+ Scandanavia

Head to Head - Premiership Head to Head
LAST corresponding Fixture : Liverpool 1 Bolton 0

The Reds come in to the game having won their last five games. Jose
Reina will aim to keep his 14th home league clean sheet in this
game.

Bolton come in to the game out of form a touch having lost their
last three games. They haven't won away from home in the last eight
league games.

Squads : Steven Gerrard returns to the Reds squad following his
suspension. Momo Sissoko walks a disciplinary tight rope in this
one. Any booking and he will serve a ban. If he avoids it though he
is then safe for the remainder of the season.

Liverpool : Reina, Finnan, Kromkamp, Hyypia, Carragher, Riise,
Warnock, Luis Garcia, Kewell, Gerrard, Alonso, Sissoko, Hamann,
Morientes, Cisse, Fowler, Crouch, Dudek.

Bolton : Jaaskelainen, O'Brien, Hunt, Jaidi, Ben Haim, N'Gotty,
Gardner, Giannakopoulos, Faye, Okocha, Speed, Nolan, Davies, Vaz Te,
Diouf, Pedersen, Walker, Nakata, Borgetti, Campo, Jansen.

Team Stats : The Reds are yet to lose a home premiership game
against Bolton Wanderers. In the previous six games the Reds have
won 5 and drawn one.

In all the Reds have won 64% of the points on offer in Premiership
games against Bolton.

In all league games against Bolton the Reds have won 26 of the 52
games at Anfield. Should the Reds strike five times in this match it
will take them to 100 against Bolton in the league at Anfield.

In those 52 games the Reds have kept 19 clean sheets and only failed
to score on eleven occassions.

Bolton last won a league game at Anfield in 1953-54 season when the
Reds ended up being relegated. That day the Reds went down to a 2-1
defeat.

Player Stats : John Arne Riise is set to make his 250th appearance
for the Reds if he takes any part in this match.

Djibril Cisse has come off the bench nineteen times so far in league
games for the Reds.

Peter Crouch has walked in the opposite direction on nineteen
occassions.

A Robbie Fowler would take him to joint 6th in the all time league
goals scoring charts. That would also take his strike rate back down
under two goals a game in the league. One strike would return it to
exactly two goals a game. Fowler already has five goals against
Bolton for the Reds in the Premiership.

El Hadji Diouf will make his first return to Anfield if he plays in
this one. He has scored goals for both sides in this premiership
fixture.

Referee : Rob Styles - taken charge of just one league game this
year for the Reds - home draw against United but was the man in
charge just a couple of weeks ago as the Reds beat Birmingham 7-0.
Bolton have had Styles for three games this season - two home wins
and an away defeat.

Betting : Liverpool 1/2, Bolton 5/1, Draw : 12/5

Liverweb Prediction : Liverpool 2 Bolton Wanderers 0

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[Liverweb] Reserves lose out at Sunderland

Liverweb Reserves Match Analysis

Liverpool : Martin, Barragan, Smith, Roque, O'Donnell, Hobbs (C),
Anderson, Peltier, Foy, Guthrie, Hammill

Subs Used : Tomlin for Foy (66), Calliste for Guthrie (75), Antwi
for Peltier (82)

Subs Unused : Lancaster, Woods

Ref : D.Foster

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The Reds reserves slumped to a 2-1 defeat up at Sunderland following
a late penalty from Sunderland. This was the Reds' second game this
week for the reserves. Trialist Lee Tomlin again made a substitute
appearance for the Reds in the second half.

Sunderland took the lead on nineteen mintes through Daryl Murphy who
headed hom a McFarlane cross. The Reds had started brightly in the
game but the goal set them back a touch.

Jack Hobbs hit the post on twenty five minutes before the Reds did
get back on level terms after 37 minutes. Robbie Foy picked out Adam
Hammill who scored the goal.

Snderland bagged a winner nine minutes from time thanks to a
penalty. Sean Taylor struck home past David Martin, who had conceded
the penalty kick in the first place.

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[Liverweb] Reserves in Action

The match kicks-off at 7pm at the Archibald Stadium, Durham.

Liverpool Reserve team

David Martin
Antonio Barragan
James Smith
Miki Roque
Danny O'Donnell
Jack Hobbs
Paul Anderson
Lee Peltier
Robbie Foy
Danny Guthrie
Adam Hammill

Substitutes:-

Godwin Antwi
Paul Lancaster
Ramon Calliste
Calum Woods
Lee Tomlin.

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[Liverweb] FA Cup Semi Final Ticket News

Liverpool have released ticket details and selling arrangements for
the FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Old Trafford on April 22.
Selling Dates

Tuesday 11th April 2006
Season Ticket & Fancard holders who have a minimum of THREE 05/06 FA
Cup matches recorded on their Fancard.

Wednesday 12th April 2006
Season Ticket & Fancard holders who have a minimum of TWO 05/06 FA
Cup matches recorded on their Fancard.

Thursday & Friday 13th/14th April 2006
Season Ticket holders who have a minimum of ONE 05/06 FA Cup matches
recorded on their Fancard.

Full Selling Details

We have received an allocation of 29,564 tickets for this fixture.
The tickets are priced at £55, £45, £35 and £25. The percentage
split on the allocation is as follows: £55-18%, £45-45%, £35-25%,
£25-12%.

We have also received 49 disabled spaces together with personal
assistant tickets and 20 tickets for the visually impaired together
with personal assistant tickets. These tickets are priced at £25
each with the personal assistants tickets free of charge.

Concessions at 50% of the face value of the ticket (£25 tickets
only) are available to children under 16 who will be accompanied
with an adult and to supporters over the age of 65.

Please note: The FA have only made the above concessions available
within a portion of the areas priced at £25. In view of this we are
unable to guarantee that concessionary tickets will be available to
all qualifying applicants.

Shareholders

The allocation and selling arrangements for ALL Shareholders are as
follows:

On holding:

1 – 9 shares: 1 ticket at £55, £45 or £35 as available
10 – 49 shares: 2 tickets at £55, £45 or £35 as available
50 shares and over: 3 tickets at £55, £45 or £35 as available

The ticket allocation to shareholders will apply to their registered
shareholdings as at 24th March 2006. Any transfer of shares lodged
for registration after this date will not qualify.

Shareholders can purchase their ticket(s) from the ticket office or
on the Credit Card line, subject to a booking fee of 50 pence,
telephone number 0870 220 0408 from Thursday 6th April until
Saturday 8th April 2006. The following information will be
required: -

name and address

details of shareholding

Shareholders with shares registered under a nominee company, must
give details of the nominee company and the account number must be
supplied.

Shareholders applying by post should make immediate application to
the ticket office detailing the ticket price in order of preference.
Cheques should be made payable to Liverpool Football Club and
endorsed not to exceed the maximum value of the highest priced
ticket allowed under the allocation. The cheque will be completed by
the Club to the actual value of the tickets available. Every effort
will be made to supply the ticket(s) to the value requested but this
can not be guaranteed. Please also see note regarding postal
applications.

Corporate Members

The Corporate Sales Department will be writing to all Members to
advise them on their ticket allocation.

Disabled and Visual Impaired Season ticket and Fan card holders

The Ticket Office will be contacting our disabled and visual
impaired supporters who qualify for a semi–final ticket.

Season Ticket holders and Fan Card holders

Tickets priced at £55, £45, £35 & £25 AS AVAILABLE will be allocated
to Season ticket holders who have supplied their fan card details to
the ticket office to prove they have purchased tickets for a minimum
of ONE FA Cup match played this season, and to Fan Card holders who
have supplied their Fan Card details to the ticket office to prove
they have purchased a minimum of TWO FA Cup matches played this
season.

Tickets will be available on the days detailed below for personal
application at the ticket office, or on the credit card line
telephone number 0870 220 0056 or from our online sales page as
follows:

Tuesday 11th April 2006
Season Ticket & Fancard holders who have a minimum of THREE 05/06 FA
Cup matches recorded on their Fancard.

Wednesday 12th April 2006
Season Ticket & Fancard holders who have a minimum of TWO 05/06 FA
Cup matches recorded on their Fancard.

Thursday & Friday 13th/14th April 2006
Season Ticket holders who have a minimum of ONE 05/06 FA Cup matches
recorded on their Fancard.

We can guarantee that tickets will be available to all the above
Season Ticket and Fan Card holders. Every effort will be made to
supply the ticket(s) to the value requested but this can not be
guaranteed.

Credit card bookings will be subject to a booking fee of 50 pence
per ticket and a transaction charge of £2.50 per ticket will be
applied to online bookings.

Season Ticket and Fan Card holders who meet the above criteria can
also make application by post. This should be done immediately
giving details of name and address and Fan Card number together with
details of the ticket price in order of preference. Cheques should
be made payable to Liverpool Football Club and endorsed not to
exceed the maximum value of the highest priced ticket allowed under
the allocation. The cheque will be completed by the Club to the
actual value of the tickets available. Every effort will be made to
supply the ticket(s) to the value requested but this can not be
guaranteed.

Applications should be clearly marked showing whether you are a
Season Ticket holder or a Fan Card holder.

Please also see note regarding postal applications.

Postal applications from Shareholders, Season Ticket holders and Fan
Card holders should be made to:

LFC Ticket Office
P.O.Box 204
Liverpool
L69 4PQ

All postal applications should be received by Tuesday 11th April
2006.

Please do not apply if you do not meet the required criteria, any
queries regarding the Fan Card please telephone 0870 220 2345.

After the above sale there will be a remaining balance of tickets
and we will be writing to Fan Card holders who have supplied their
Fan Card details to the ticket office and have purchased a ticket
for a minimum of ONE FA cup match this season to advise them on how
the remaining balance will allocated.

Tickets are STRICTLY non-transferable. Liverpool FC has to furnish
details to the Football Association on all tickets purchased i.e.
names and addresses of applicants corresponding to the seat details
on the ticket issued to the applicant.

Liverpool FC will not take any responsibility for any financial
losses due to lost, destroyed, or damaged tickets.

Postal Applications

It is recommended to supporters making a postal application to
include with their application a self addressed recorded Post Office
envelope with the correct postage for the return of their ticket.

The Ticket Office hours are Monday to Friday 8:15 am to 5:30 pm. On
Saturday 15th April the Ticket Office will open at 9:15 am and close
at 1:00 pm. The Ticket Office will be closed on Easter Sunday &
Monday. Please note that the credit card line hours on Good Friday
14th April 2006 will be between 9.15 am and 4.45 pm.

Andy
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[Liverweb] Reserves Win

Liverweb Reserve Match Report

Liverpool 1 Birmingham City 0

Report courtesy of AdamS at Wrexham

Liverpool : Martin, Barragan, Roque, Antwi, O'Donnell, Hobbs(C),
Anderson, Peltier, Calliste, Guthrie, Foy

Subs Used : Lee Tomlin for Calliste (65), Hammill for Guthrie (74),
Smith for Roque (83)

Subs Unused : Lancaster, Woods

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Tonight saw a game at The Racecourse where the visiting team
Birmingham failed to have a single shot on target. However it still
took Liverpool until the dying moments to force the victory.

This game exposed the shortcomings of what, on the whole, is a very
impressive reserve team. The two errant areas that were patently
clear for all to see tonight was the lack of a proper finisher and
the lack of creativity from central midfield. With Lee Peltier and
Hobbs in midfield mainly concentrating on defensive duties, it puts
a lot of pressure on Guthrie to provide the spark and if he is
marked out of the game or just not on top form we really lack
fluency.

On the bench for The Reds tonight was 17 year old Lee Tomlin who is
on a trial for Rushden and Diamonds. Also coming back from injury
Adam Hammill was back among the substitutes.

The first chance of the game fell to Birmingham. It was the only
chance they were able to muster all night and even that one was more
down to a Liverpool defensive error. With ten minutes gone the
industrious Foy was clearing up at the back but tried to do a little
too much. The ball fell the path of McPike but he could only blast
over from 18 yards.

After this scrappy start Liverpool started to dominate possession
and control the game. The first shot on goal in the match was from
Calliste. He turned twenty five yards out and let fly. It was a
powerful dipping effort and the impressive Legzdins in goal for
Birmingham could only tip over.

On twenty minutes as the ball left the field of play one fan saw his
chance and took it. Jumping up from his front row seat he headed the
ball back over the advertising hoardings and on to the pitch.
Unfortunately for him his shades followed the ball onto the field.
Roque, tonight occupying the left back position tried his best to
pass them back, but play restarted and he had to rush off.

When the sun had gone down on that brief interlude Liverpool captain
Jack Hobbs was again asserting himself in midfield. This time he won
the ball with a brilliant tackle, jumped to his feet and slid
Anderson in on goal. The youngster was heading away from goal but
his first touch set the ball up nicely to be hit right footed on the
half volley. He hit it well and got plenty of power but the shot
went just wide.

Liverpool's best chances of the half came just before half time. On
43 minutes Roque was the man to win the tackle this time and he
opted for a short pass to Foy who looked up and slipped a pass
through the defence to Anderson. The defender managed to get a touch
forcing Anderson to cut back, before steadying himself and this time
shooting with his left. Again he made good contact, but once more
failed to hit the target.

A minute later and the lively Anderson was again the protagonist. He
chased down a long Martin kick. When all seemed lost he managed to
beat City left back Blake to the ball. He cut back inside and as he
ran on goal he slipped the ball back to Calliste. The Welsh U21
international shot first time but a diving block from Painter saw
the ball ricochet away for a corner.

Half Time: 0-0

Liverpool started the second half as they had finshed the first.
Again Blake was beaten, this time by Guthrie. He played a hard and
low cross inside the six yard box which Painter did well to
intercept, his sliced clearance looping over the crossbar.

Foy had again been looking dangerous tonight and on 54 minutes he
produced a lovely piece of skill to beat two men. He then slipped it
into Guthrie. He hit a cross field ball to Anderson who beat his man
by taking the ball over his head. The young winger the ball on the
volley but the end result engendered a sense of deja vu, with
probably too good a contact seeing the ball frustratingly fly over
the bar.

Tomlin came on for Calliste with twenty five minutes to go. There
was plenty of running in him and he was certainly doing his best to
make a good impression. Ten minutes after coming on he had a chance.
Barragan took a huge throw in from the right wing and Tomlin was
first to it. The trialist rose and nodded the ball down toward the
bottom corner only to see an alert Legzdins diving to his left to
turn the ball behind for a corner.

With just over quarter of an hour to go Hammill came on. He was
lively from the minute he got on and nearly scored in the 85th
minute. He curled a shot from twenty five yards but again Legzdins
was well positioned to turn the ball behind. Liverpool had an
impressive corner count but were still yet to register a digit where
it counts.

Just when it seemed the game had petered out to a stalemate Tomlin
chased down a long and hopeful through ball. He did enough to make
the keeper rush his clearance and miskick from just outside the box.
Tomlin chased the ball down, turned and fed Hammill. Hammill took a
touch, set himself and shot low to the keeper's right hand side but
Legzdins made a good save tipping the ball onto the post. Anderson's
eyes lit up as he saw the ball bouncing along the goal line and he
knew he wasn't going to miss from two yards out. 1-0.

There was an audible sigh of relief from Liverpool fans and players
on the final whistle. To have gone away from this game with anything
other than a win would have been a huge disappointment.

Full Time: 1-0

Man of the Match: Not an easy choice as there were no real stand out
performances. Hobbs was again very strong and a calming influence in
midfield, but I'll go for Peltier as he is trying to adapt his game
to get forward more to drive the team on. He grew in stature as the
game progressed today.

© AdamS 2006

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[Liverweb] West Ham Tickets

Barclays Premiership

West Ham United v Liverpool

To be played at Upton Park, West Ham
On Wednesday 26 April 2006, Kick Off 7.45pm

Liverpool Football Club have received an allocation of 2936 stand
tickets for this ALL ticket fixture priced as follows;-

Adult £37
Over 65s £20.50
Child £20.50 (under 16)

Ticket Allocation

Tickets will be available to Season Ticket holders based on
attendance at Premier League away fixtures during Season 2004-2005
on the following days,

Attendance at 3 or more games
Wednesday 5 April 8.15am - 5.30pm

All Season Ticket Holders
Thursday 6 April 8.15am - 5.30pm

The allocation of tickets will be subject to availability and while
stocks last.

Tickets will be available for personal application at the Ticket
Office, by postal application and credit card bookings on Telephone
Number 0870 787 2000. The Fan Card must be presented when applying
at the Ticket Office and in the case of postal applications or
telephone applications the number must be quoted, telephone bookings
will require the applicants address to be confirmed and are subject
to a booking fee.

Please do not apply if you do not meet the required criteria, any
queries regarding the Fan Card please telephone 0870 220 2345.

We would emphasise to all eligible applicants that no guarantee can
be given that tickets will be available to all who apply.

Executive Box holders, Centenary, Premier and Executive members
should contact the Corporate Sales Department.

Please note that telephone booking lines will open at 8.30am Monday –
Friday.

Andy
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[Liverweb] West Brom Match Report

Liverweb Match Report

West Bromwich Albion 0 Liverpool 2

Liverpool : Reina, Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Alonso, Sissoko,
Kewell, Fowler, Crouch, Cisse

Subs Used : Garcia for Fowler (64), Morientes for Crouch (70), Kromkamp for
Cisse (77)

Subs Unused : Dudek, Warnock

Att : 27,576

Ref : U.Rennie

The Reds eased to an easy 2-0 victory of West Brom in the evening kick off.
First half goals from Fowler and Cisse took the Reds to three points
without much problems. The Reds couldn't call upon Gerrard but if any game
is one that you should be able to do without him in it's this one anyway.

Albion got the game underway at the Hawthorns in what was a slow but steady
start for both sides. After just a couple of minutes the Reds got their
foot on the ball and as soon as that happened you sensed goals were in the
air. It was five last season and six the time before so, with the goal
scoring form we've been in you expected another hat full today.

That first goal came after just six minutes as well. Alonso pinged a superb
ball through to Cisse and after Robinson made a hash of trying to clear it
Cisse was all alone on the right. He got his head up and saw Fowler at the
back post. His square ball found Fowler who slammed the ball home. The goal
took him past Dalglish in the all time scoring charts but Fowler was quick
to get to Cisse and praise him for his part in the goal.

Already you were wondering how many the Reds would get. Ten minutes in
though and you had a worry about Hyypia. Sami went for a standard ball only
to go right over the top of Kanu and fall awkwardly. It was a worry more
for the games ahead as already you thought of previous games and thought
three were safe today.

Crouch went close on twelve minutes but he was just to slow getting to the
ball and allowed Watson in to clear the danger. At the other end Kamara hit
a shot straight at Reina. On twenty minutes the Reds were on the attack
again - Crouch laid the ball off to Cisse but he slipped trying to free
Fowler and the ball went for a corner. Hyypia headed wide from the corner
which was whipped in by Alonso.

On twenty five minutes there was a great ball for Cisse and he in turn set
Crouch on for goal but his shot was turned away for a corner. Albion slowly
started getting some possession but it just wasn't going anywhere for them.
They just looked a side without an idea of how to score.

The Reds made it 2-0 on thirty seven minutes and this was all Xabi Alonso
and his eye for a pass. Alonso went all the way to Reina to collect the
ball. He looked up and saw Cisse coming in from the right. His ball was
perfectly weighted and Cisse obliged by taking the ball around the keeper
and slotting home. This was as easy as we thought it would be.

The Reds really should have made it three just before half time when Cisse
ran half the length of the pitch down the right before firing across to the
back post only for Crouch to hit it just the wrong side of the post when it
unexpectedly arrived at his feet.

The half time interval saw Albion get Gera warmed up ready for the second
half. He was out early getting ready and arrived in place of Kamara. The
Reds got the game underway again. It was the sub who made a difference to
Albion though and just one minute in to the half he shot past Riise to the
far post but with Reina at full stretch it sailed past the far post and out
for a goal kick. It was a warning that the home side would at least try and
salvage something.

On forty eight minutes Sissoko broke up play on the right hand side
superbly. He then set Cisse free but with both Crouch and Kewell in the
middle Cisse elected to take on the shot only to see it hit the side netting.

At the other end it was Zoltan Gera again who was causing the Reds problems
and Riise seemed to be targeted each time. On fifty minutes Gera shot but
straight at Reina who held on well. The Reds had a great chance on fifty
three when Carragher brought the ball out and saw Cisse. The through ball
was perfect but Cisse saw his flick shot saved by the keeper.

It was quite a balanced second half with the Reds playing well within
themselves and not over stressing about getting a third goal. It felt like
there was one there if needs be but why over stretch yourself. Albion
changed it again just after the hour as Campbell and Clement replaced
Watson and Kanu. Shortly after Garcia replaced Fowler which saw Cisse go
more central.

The Reds were allowing Albion plenty of the ball but other than Gera there
was little threat. That said Gera did at least ensure Reina stayed alert
throughout the game. As time went on though it just became a nothing game.
The Reds seemed content with a 2-0 scoreline and Albion had nothing about
them in order to change things.

On seventy eight minutes Reina half came for a ball but changed his mind.
Campbell got the ball down after beating Hyypia but rather than shoot he
passed to Greening who fired over the bar when he should at least have
forced a save.

With five minutes to go Kewell broke down the left hand side and fired in a
ball across the area rather than pull it back to Garcia who was free.
However Morientes managed to steal in on the ball but his toe poke went
just wide of the near post.

There was a late hand in mouth moment when with two minutes to go Sissoko
handled in his own area. Thankfully Uriah Rennie decided that in jumping up
Sissoko was pushed in t the handled effort. It may have caused a grandstand
finish to the game but it would have been harsh not only on the Reds but
Sissoko specifically who had a superb game.

Al in all this seemed to be a Reds performance that happened for the first
half and then eased down in to cruise control afterwards. Albion were poor
and offered very little against us. It's perhaps one of the easiest three
points of the season.

MotM : Momo Sissoko - just as last week Sissoko was absolutely superb in
the midfield. He broke everything up and on a couple of occasions set up
good attacks as well. Alonso also had another superb game and his two
passes for the goals were great.

Match Stats

WBA - Liverpool
44% Possession 56%
4 Shots On Target 3
4 Shots Off Target 9
0 Blocked Shots 1
1 Corners 4
11 Fouls 9
5 Offsides 1
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0

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