Lucas Leiva and Andriy Voronin helped Liverpool claim a 2-1 win over Swiss Super League outfit FC Lucerne in their second pre-season friendly.Reds boss Rafael Benitez handed new goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri the gloves for his debut, while fellow newcomer Philipp Degen was also in a first XI which included Spaniard Danny Pacheco but not Steven Gerrard, who was left on the bench.
Pacheco was the architect of the 10th-minute opener, combining well with Brazil midfielder Lucas before the latter slotted home coolly to round off the move.
Benitez's men were pegged back soon after when Degen failed to win a far-post header, allowing the ball to break to Gavranovic who converted an uncontested header.
Pacheco and Yossi Benayoun both shone in the first half and the visitors soon moved back into the lead through the equally impressive Voronin.
The Ukraine forward took control of the ball 16 yards from goal before producing a sweetly-hit lob to make it 2-1.
Voronin, a constant thorn for the Lucerne defence in the second half, went close to grabbing a second but there were no further goals.
There was, though, one further plus for Benitez who gave Dutch winger Ryan Babel his first 45 minutes since sustaining an ankle injury in his country's Euro 2008 preparations.
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What's wrong gregory(?). The splinters in your arse from sitting on the bench in the under 12's still giving you trouble? @#$% armchair critics, giving it to a kid who has 100 times the talent they ever dreamed of having. Get a @#$% life ya dropkick.
Don't be so harsh on the lad Greg, he's only 17, still extremely young. However, I saw it on the LFC official forums after the tranmere game he played in, and it is probably happening again, people are overating him already just because he made some good runs or had some good touches. He has wasted a lot of chances, but the thing with strikers is when they score one, they can usually score a dozen more after it, once they have confidence. I just hope everybody stops raving about him just because he's okay on the pitch. Give him another 3 years before you start rating him properly.
Ok, not a bad performance from Liverpool, it is pre season after all.But, as for the spanish kid, whats his name.... er..pashy..pach...oh yeah, pacheco(sorry, just forgotten him already!),certainly not a performance to remember.yeah,he made some good touches, but overall his game was summed up by the same routine all evening : he gets a chance, wastes it,he gains possesion, he loses it,he passes the ball,he makes a complete hash of it,he gets in to the box, one on one with the keeper and falls over, and oh just for a change, he gets a really good chance and guess what he wastes it! Its one thing setting up goals and working hard,god knows Dirk Kuyt works his socks off for Liverpool every match he plays,but the bottom line is as a striker youre employed by a club to score goals and when you waste every oppertunity you get in front of goal youre wasting youre time! Pacheco : Attempts 8+ Goals ZERO. Disgraceful against weak opposition and an absoloute waste of time and effort!
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