Report

Liverpool 4 - 1 Rotherham United

Game date: 28.03.1962 Stadium: Anfield
Competition: 2nd Division Attendance: 32,827
Half-time score 1 - 1
Manager Bill Shankly League pos. after match 1

Starting lineup

1 Jim Furnell Jim Furnell
2 Gerry Byrne Gerry Byrne
3 Ronnie Moran Ronnie Moran
4 Gordon Milne Gordon Milne
5 Ron Yeats Ron Yeats
6 Tommy Leishman Tommy Leishman
7 Ian Callaghan Ian Callaghan
8 Roger Hunt Roger Hunt
9 Ian St John Ian St John
10 Jimmy Melia Jimmy Melia
11 Alan A' Court Alan A' Court

Goals

Roger Hunt 35'
Ian St John 47'
Ian St John 55'
Ian St John 90'

Opposition lineup

Roy Ironside, Brian Jackson, Lol Morgan, Billy Cassidy, Peter Madden, Ken Waterhouse, Barry Webster, Don Weston, Keith Houghton, Alan Kirkman, Brian Taylor

Opposition goals

Don Weston

Notes

- Roger Hunt scores his 37th League goal of the season thus becoming the Liverpool player with the greatest number of League goals in one season, Gordon Hodgson being the former record-holder with 36 goals in the 1930-31 season when Liverpool were playing in the First Division.

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