FT: VALERENGA 1-4 LIVERPOOL

Date: Wednesday 7 August 2013
Kick Off: 18:00
Venue: Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo
Competition: Friendly
Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)
Broadcast: LFC TV Online, BT Sport 1 (17:30)


LINKS

http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=210167


AND IT'S LIVE!

http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/221910


Liverpool kept up their 100% winning record in pre-season on Wednesday night as they comfortably beat Valerenga, although they did concede their first goal.

Liverpool had a number of chances to take the lead before they finally did, with Iago Aspas missing most of the chances, although he wasn't helped by goalkeeper Gudmund Taksal Kongshavn having the game of his life. It was another Aspas effort that ultimately led to the opening goal, after his effort came back off the crossbar and was only half cleared by the Valerenga defence. It fell to Luis Alberto who volleyed it in to the far corner with the outside of his left foot.

But four minutes later, the Reds conceded their first goal of pre-season from a corner kick when Giancarlo Gonzalez headed in.

Just a minute before half time, Aspas finally got his name on the scoresheet after some good work by Stewart Downing on the right resulted in him pulling it back for Aspas to tap in a simple finish.

At the break, 10 changes were made with only Andre Wisdom remaining on the pitch for the rest of the match. The third goal came nine minutes into the half, when a corner kick for Liverpool was bundled in off the shoulder of Martin Kelly.

Liverpool had more chances to wrap it up with Fabio Borini unlucky not to score with some of his efforts, one of which hit the crossbar. But in the first minute of injury time, Oussama Assaidi set up Raheem Sterling with a clever flick to slot it into the bottom left corner.

Liverpool travel to Dublin at the weekend to take on Celtic, before they finally get their season underway at home to Stoke City a week on Saturday in what will be the curtain-raiser of the Premier League season.


LIVE SCOREBOARD

VALERENGA - 1
Gonzalez 35'

LIVERPOOL - 4
Alberto 31'
Aspas 44'
Kelly 54'
Sterling 90+1'


TEAMS

Valerenga
Kongshavn (Knutsen 85')
Larsen (Wawrzynkiewicz 51')
Gonzalez
Hogh
Lecjaks (Zahid 58')
Ogude (Nasberg 62')
Holm (Thomassen 58')
Zajic (Haestad 58')
Fellah
Berre (Borven 67')
Calvo (Blarud 77')

Subs: Knutsen, Muri, Borven, Thomassen, Haestad, Wawrzynkiewicz, Blarud, Nasberg, Zahid.

Liverpool
B Jones (Mignolet 46')
Spearing (Kelly 46' )
Wisdom
Coates (Toure 46')
Flanagan (Enrique 46')
Henderson (Coutinho 46')
Allen (Lucas 46')
Alberto (Gerrard 46')
Downing (Sterling 46' )
Aspas (Borini 46')
Ibe (Assaidi 46')

Subs: Mignolet, Enrique, Toure, Gerrard, Coutinho, Assaidi, Lucas, Borini, Sterling, Kelly.


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