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Tuesday December 11, 2007 Finished Vlodrome

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Marseille

Liverpool

  • Gerrard 4’ (pen.)
  • Torres 11’
  • Kuijt 48’
  • Babel 90’
  1. Group A: Liverpool through

    Group A: Liverpool through

    Liverpool qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League after a 4-0 Group A win over Marseille at Stade Velodrome. Porto's 2-0 home win over Besiktas made them group winners, with the French side finishing third and playing in the UEFA Cup first knockout round. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Marseille
    • Liverpool
    • 90+3 And that is the end, 4-0, Liverpool hammer Marseille and they go through to the next round of the Champions League. Marseille have to be content with a UEFA Cup berth.
    • 90+1 Three minutes injury time being played.
    • 90' Ball over the top from Aurelio sends substitute Ryan Babel free of Faty and he makes it 4-0 by rounding the keeper and slotting it home. All too easy for Liverpool.
    • 88' Fabio Aurelio booked for a late one on Bonnart.
    • 86' LIVERPOOL SUB: Kuyt off for Leto.
    • 78' Another free kick at range and instead of doing the clever thing of putting it in the mixer, Niang tries a spectacular effort that I'm pretty sure isn't his forte, way over.
    • 77' LIVERPOOL SUB: Babel on for Torres.
    • 77' Now Kuyt has the ball on the counter, he spots Benayoun's run and lofts it wide to him, the little Israeli approaches the box but the support isn't there and the move breaks down.
    • 76' Niang goes down after a challenge from Faty.
    • 74' Nasri with a free-kick some way out... ambitious it was, his shot flies well over.
    • 71' Cleared by Marseille though. This game is all but over.
    • 70' Torres goes down, free-kick Liverpool about 35 yards out...
    • 67' Taking the corner is Kewell's last act in the match, he comes off for Fabio Aurelio.
    • 66' Kewell looks quizically at the ref after he awards a goal kick when the ball clearly came off Valbuena, who hurls himself to the floor trying to win a free kick... it's a corner in the end, the linesman signalling the final touch came off a Marseille shirt.
    • 63' Almost a lifeline for Marseille as a ball over the top sees Carragher, Hyppia and Niang meet in the box to combine to to flick the ball over the stranded Reina but inches wide for a corner.
    • 62' Looks like the sides with the current pedigree are going through; Porto 2-0 up ahainst Besiktas now.
    • 57' Torres believes he has been fouled on the left but nothing given this time and Marseille clear.
    • 55' Tight again from the Lino as Kuyt plays an up-and-under that sets Torres free of the home defence.
    • 50' Reina flaps at a cross from the left but compensates by apparently frightening Valbuena coming in by making himself look like Pob.
    • 48' Terrible kick out by Mandanda is intercepted by Kewell who sends a brilliant cross to Kuyt WHO RACES CLEAR OF THE DEFENCE AND THERE'S NO FLAG SO HE RACES TOWARDS GOAL AND CLIPS IT OVER MANDANDA FOR 3-0! And that, my friends, is that. Kuyt with the goal and a defensive "what not to do" from the hosts, a poor kick out by the keeper complemented by Rangers flop Rodriguez getting caught running across Kuyt, who would have been offside otherwise.
    • 46' Second half underway!
    • 46' MARSEILLE SUB: Former Liverpool man Djibril Cisse comes on.
    • 45+3 Half-time, Liverpool cruising at 2-0.
    • 45+2 MARSEILLE SUB: Faty on for Givet, who couldn't continue in the end.
    • 45' Two minutes added time being played, although I'd throw an extra one in for that injury.
    • 44' An injury to Givet after he collided with Kuyt, but the pair of them are fine, actually no, Givet has to go off [and who can blame him].
    • 43' Kuyt slips it through to Torres and he pokes it past Rodriguez who has the pace of a tortoise and he's in but toe-pokes it over! Liverpool all over Marseille.
    • 41' The free-kick is whipped in and it flicks up in the air and falls TO KEWELL IN THE BOX BUT HE HAMMERS IT OVER! Should have been 3-0.
    • 41' Cana is booked for kicking Torres...
    • 40' Free-kick to Liverpool after Kewell is brought down by Ziani, and the pair have a set-to after Ziani accuses him of diving. About 30 yards out, Gerrard to take... and he whips it in right footed and it goes inches wide of the left hand post.
    • 39' Bonnart gets across Torres' body and wins the free kick - clever defending.
    • 38' Liverpool old boy Zenden with the corner from the right... testing low delivery that misses the man at the near post and it's in th six yard box but Liverpool get it clear.
    • 35' I think the ref Terje Hauge showed a yellow card to Hyppia for a late tackle on Ziani. Liverpool break and Torres bursts towards the box but he's tackled.
    • 33' MARSEILLE SUB: Cheyrou comes off rather early for Samir Nasri. One assumes there's been an injury.
    • 29' Carragher is rather harshly booked for a foot-up trying to win the ball off Valbuena, who milks the contact and rolls around like he's been shot, which the ref buys. Poor all round.
    • 28' Niang almost latches onto a high ball into the Reds box but Reina comes out well to claim on the edge of his area.
    • 27' Givet goes down after appearing to be caught late by Kewell but I don't think there was much contact.
    • 25' Givet - who has been poor so far tonight - is down in a heap after colliding with a team-mate.
    • 22' Valbuena on a run, he ghosts into the Liverpool area, past Benayoun now and he can round Reina but the Spain keeper forces him wide and eventually he slips and it's out for a goal kick.
    • 20' Gerrard spreads it wide to Kewell, who takes an excellent touch to the byline and stands up a superb cross WHICH KUYT ATTACKS but the direction does not match the power and it's straight at Mandanda.
    • 18' Cheyrou with a long range shot that goes horribly high of Reina's goal. A bit early for hit and hope I think...
    • 16' Marseille seeing more of the ball but Valbuena sends in a poor centre which is out for a goal kick to Liverpool, who have been playing a classic, deep-lying counter attacking game so far.
    • 14' Good pressure from Marseille here as Liverpool fail to fully clear the corner, it drops to Cana quite some way out but the Albanian sends his shot well, well wide.
    • 13' Valbuena to take a free-kick on the Marseille right... decent delivery which Niang gets close to but Liverpool clear... corner given away on the left, Valbuena jogs over to take...
    • 12' Kewell on the left, touches it into Torres on the left hand edge of the Marseille box, he cuts past one player, then another, this is brilliant from Torres who slides it into the bottom right for 2-0! Wonder goal from El Nino!!
    • 11' Hmmm, now that was a poor decision. Niang is called offside when racing clear of the Liverpool defence, he was on.
    • 10' Torres is a few yards offside when he runs onto Kuyt's through ball, not very clever movement and Kuyt lets him now.
    • 9' ... taken short by Benayoun who gets it back off Kewell and whips it in but Gerrard at the near post can only head it up in the air and to safety for the hosts.
    • 8' Free-kick to Liverpool 35 yards out on the left which Gerrard will whip in... good delivery but headed behind for a corner...
    • 7' Niang on the left with his back to goal, he turns past one man and fires in a long-range effort but it's wild and goes well wide of Reina's left hand post.
    • 5' Givet with a wild, two-footed lunge on Benayoun, free kick and somehow no card. He is a lucky boy, should be off on two counts.
    • 4' Gerrard dusts himself down to take it... and he hammers it for the roof of the net but a superb save by Mandanda but Gerrard gets onto the rebound to hammer it in for 1-0!
    • 3' Gerrard bursts through into the box and Givet flies in to chop him down and a penalty!! Marseille think it was a dive - Givet went straight through him from the back.
    • 1' Frantic start sees Taiwo burst down the left and flash in a low cross that Reina saves, then Torres immediately down the other end but being stood up by Bonnart.
    • 1' Match underway in Marseille!!
    • - So, Liverpool HAVE to win - but in the six times English sides have played Marseille at Stade Velodrome, Marseille have won all six times.
    • - Referee: Terje Hauge
    • - LIVERPOOL TEAM: Reina, Arbeloa, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Benayoun, Gerrard, Mascherano, Kewell, Kuyt, Torres
    • - MARSEILLE TEAM: Mandanda, Taiwo, Rodriguez, Givet, Bonnart, Cana, Cheyrou, Ziani, Valbuena, Zenden, Niang.
    • - Hello and welcome to Liverpool's must-win game at Stade Veledrome against Marseille - Rafa Benitez is under huge pressure to get all three points needed to qualify the reds for the knockout stages of the Champions League - from 19:45 GMT!

  • Team Stats

    Marseille Stats Liverpool
    67% Possession 32%
    11 Shots 16
    0 Shots on target 6
    0 Saves 0
    6 Corners 2
    19 Fouls 12
    2 Offsides 5
    1 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    14 Tackles 40
    437 Accurate passes 152
    69 Bad passes 47

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Marseille
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      30 Steve Mandanda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0
      32 Gaël Givet 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 20 2 1
      3 Taye Taiwo 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 39 18 0
      24 Laurent Bonnart 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 55 0 4
      4 Julien Rodriguez 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 48 3 1
      28 Mathieu Valbuena 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 51 5 2
      19 Lorik Cana 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 49 7 1
      7 Benoit Cheyrou 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 0
      6 Karim Ziani 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 45 12 2
      10 Boudewijn Zenden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 6 0
      11 Mamadou Niang 0 2 0 0 6 2 0 18 3 0
      9 Djibril Cisse 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0
      40 Sébastien Mate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      8 Wilson Oruma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Samir Nasri 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 44 9 0
      5 Jacques Faty 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 29 3 3
      17 Modeste M'Bami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Ronald Zubar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Liverpool
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      25 Jose Reina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5 0
      23 Jamie Carragher 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1
      6 John Arne Riise 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 9 9 6
      17 Alvaro Arbeloa 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 7
      4 Sami Hyypia 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 4 3
      8 Steven Gerrard 1 5 2 2 1 0 0 21 5 7
      20 Javier Mascherano 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 18 2 6
      11 Yossi Benayoun 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 23 3 5
      7 Harry Kewell 0 1 0 3 2 0 2 14 5 1
      18 Dirk Kuyt 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 24 6 1
      9 Fernando Torres 1 3 1 1 5 4 0 8 4 2
      15 Peter Crouch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      46 Jack Hobbs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Fabio Aurelio 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 7 2 1
      30 Charles Itandje 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Steve Finnan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      21 Lucas Leiva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      19 Ryan Babel 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Ball over the top from Aurelio sends substitute Ryan Babel free of Faty and he makes it 4-0 by rounding the keeper and slotting it home. All too easy for Liverpool.
    • 63' Almost a lifeline for Marseille as a ball over the top sees Carragher, Hyppia and Niang meet in the box to combine to to flick the ball over the stranded Reina but inches wide for a corner.
    • 48' Terrible kick out by Mandanda is intercepted by Kewell who sends a brilliant cross to Kuyt WHO RACES CLEAR OF THE DEFENCE AND THERE'S NO FLAG SO HE RACES TOWARDS GOAL AND CLIPS IT OVER MANDANDA FOR 3-0! And that, my friends, is that. Kuyt with the goal and a defensive "what not to do" from the hosts, a poor kick out by the keeper complemented by Rangers flop Rodriguez getting caught running across Kuyt, who would have been offside otherwise.
    • 43' Kuyt slips it through to Torres and he pokes it past Rodriguez who has the pace of a tortoise and he's in but toe-pokes it over! Liverpool all over Marseille.
    • 41' The free-kick is whipped in and it flicks up in the air and falls TO KEWELL IN THE BOX BUT HE HAMMERS IT OVER! Should have been 3-0.
    • 40' Free-kick to Liverpool after Kewell is brought down by Ziani, and the pair have a set-to after Ziani accuses him of diving. About 30 yards out, Gerrard to take... and he whips it in right footed and it goes inches wide of the left hand post.
    • 20' Gerrard spreads it wide to Kewell, who takes an excellent touch to the byline and stands up a superb cross WHICH KUYT ATTACKS but the direction does not match the power and it's straight at Mandanda.
    • 12' Kewell on the left, touches it into Torres on the left hand edge of the Marseille box, he cuts past one player, then another, this is brilliant from Torres who slides it into the bottom right for 2-0! Wonder goal from El Nino!!
    • 5' Givet with a wild, two-footed lunge on Benayoun, free kick and somehow no card. He is a lucky boy, should be off on two counts.
    • 4' Gerrard dusts himself down to take it... and he hammers it for the roof of the net but a superb save by Mandanda but Gerrard gets onto the rebound to hammer it in for 1-0!
    • 3' Gerrard bursts through into the box and Givet flies in to chop him down and a penalty!! Marseille think it was a dive - Givet went straight through him from the back.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Marseille

    Manager: Eric Gerets

    On the Field

    • Mandanda
    • Bonnart
    • Rodriguez
    • Givet
    • Taiwo
    • Cana
    • Cheyrou
    • Ziani
    • Valbuena
    • Zenden
    • Niang

    Subs

    • Cissé
    • M'Bami
    • MATE
    • Oruma
    • Zubar
    • Nasri
    • Ayew

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Liverpool

    Manager: Rafa Benitez

    Captain: Steven Gerrard

    On the Field

    • Reina
    • Arbeloa
    • Carragher
    • Hyypia
    • Riise
    • Benayoun
    • Gerrard
    • Mascherano
    • Kewell
    • Kuijt
    • Torres

    Subs

    • Aurelio
    • Crouch
    • Finnan
    • Itandje
    • Babel
    • Hobbs
    • Lucas

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None