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European Super Cup 1st leg

Stade Émile Versé | Mon 4 Dec 1978 at 19:00 UK local time

Anderlecht 3 - 1 Liverpool

Starting Lineup

1 Ray Clemence Ray Clemence
2 Phil Neal Phil Neal
3 Alan Kennedy Alan Kennedy
4 Emlyn Hughes Emlyn Hughes (c)
5 Ray Kennedy Ray Kennedy
6 Alan Hansen Alan Hansen
7 Kenny Dalglish Kenny Dalglish
8 Jimmy Case Jimmy Case
9 David Johnson David Johnson
10 Terry McDermott Terry McDermott
11 Graeme Souness Graeme Souness

Substitutes

13 Steve Ogrizovic Steve Ogrizovic
12 Steve Heighway Steve Heighway
14 David Fairclough David Fairclough
15 Sammy Lee Sammy Lee
16 Brian Kettle Brian Kettle

Goals (Assists in brackets)

Substitutions

Opposition Lineup

Opposition goals

Notes

  • - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 26.95
  • - Average age of the Anderlecht starting lineup: 27.73


  • - The Guardian claims it was Alan Kennedy who headed the ball back to Case, but the accompanying footage on this page shows that he headed it to Emlyn Hughes who passed to Case to score (despite that the actual Hughes pass to Case cannot be seen).

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Other details

Manager: Bob Paisley
Opposition manager: Raymond Goethals
Referee: Palotai K (Hungary)
Attendance: 35,000
Half-time score: 2 - 1
Game number: 3423
Europe game number: 102
Look at the 2nd leg: Tue 19 Dec 1978 (H)

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