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1st Division

City Ground | Sat 30 Nov 1968 at 15:00 UK local time

Nottingham Forest 0 - 1 Liverpool

Starting Lineup

1 Tommy Lawrence Tommy Lawrence
2 Chris Lawler Chris Lawler
3 Geoff Strong Geoff Strong
4 Tommy Smith Tommy Smith
5 Ron Yeats Ron Yeats (c)
6 Emlyn Hughes Emlyn Hughes
7 Ian Callaghan Ian Callaghan
8 Roger Hunt Roger Hunt
9 Alun Evans Alun Evans
10 Ian St John Ian St John
11 Peter Thompson Peter Thompson

Substitutes

12 Gerry Byrne Gerry Byrne

Goals (Assists in brackets)

Opposition Lineup

Opposition substitutions

Notes

  • - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 26.68
  • - Average age of the Nottingham Forest starting lineup: 24.87
  • - Liverpool league position after match: 1
  • - Nottingham Forest league position after match: 21
  • - Click here to view the full league table after the match.
  • - It was believed that Roger Hunt had equalled Gordon Hodgson's league scoring record for Liverpool in this game, but a mistake in the accumulation of Hunt's scoring total meant that he was one goal off his record.

    -The Guardian report online falsely reports it was Emlyn Hughes who set the goal up. It was Peter Thompson as described by the Echo and also Hunt's own account of the supposedly "historic" goal.

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Other details

Manager: Bill Shankly
Opposition manager: John Carey
Referee: Green AL
Attendance: 25,175
Half-time score: 0 - 1
Game number: 2844
League game number: 2551

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