Report

Liverpool 3 - 2 Leicester City

Game date: 20.08.1966 Stadium: Anfield
Competition: 1st Division Attendance: 49,076
Half-time score 2 - 2
Manager Bill Shankly League pos. after match 9

Starting lineup

1 Tommy Lawrence Tommy Lawrence
2 Chris Lawler Chris Lawler
3 Gerry Byrne Gerry Byrne
4 Tommy Smith Tommy Smith
5 Ron Yeats Ron Yeats
6 Willie Stevenson Willie Stevenson
7 Ian Callaghan Ian Callaghan
8 Roger Hunt Roger Hunt
9 Ian St John Ian St John
10 Geoff Strong Geoff Strong
11 Peter Thompson Peter Thompson

Subs

12 Gordon Milne Gordon Milne

Goals

Roger Hunt 10'
Geoff Strong 31'
Willie Stevenson 65' pen

Substitutions

Gerry Byrne out for Gordon Milne

Opposition lineup

Gordon Banks, Peter Rodrigues, Richard Norman, Bobby Roberts, John Sjoberg, Graham Cross, Jackie Sinclair, Jimmy Goodfellow, Derek Dougan, David Gibson, Mike Stringfellow

Opposition goals

Derek Dougan
Derek Dougan

Notes

- Byrne taken off injured in the middle of the first half. The nearest we've gotten is that it happened between 10th and 31st minute.

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