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1st Division
Anfield | Sat 14 Aug 1971 at 15:00
| Liverpool | 3 | - | 1 | Nottingham Forest |
Starting Lineup
| 1 |  |
Ray Clemence |
| 2 |  |
Chris Lawler |
| 3 |  |
Alec Lindsay |
| 4 |  |
Tommy Smith (c) |
| 5 |  |
Larry Lloyd |
| 6 |  |
Emlyn Hughes |
| 7 |  |
Kevin Keegan |
| 8 |  |
Peter Thompson |
| 9 |  |
Steve Heighway |
| 10 |  |
John Toshack |
| 11 |  |
John McLaughlin |
Substitutes
Goals
- Kevin Keegan 12'
- Tommy Smith 15' pen
- Emlyn Hughes 55'
Opposition goals
- Ian Storey-Moore 40' pen
Notes
- - Kevin Keegan makes his LFC debut
- - Kevin Keegan scores his debut goal for LFC
- - Average age of the Liverpool starting lineup: 23.84
- - Average age of the Nottingham Forest starting lineup: 26.63
- - Liverpool league position after match: 1
- - Nottingham Forest league position after match: 17
- - Click here to view the full league table after the match.
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- Keegan in as Shankly axes stars
- Start of something big for the mighty Reds
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- An official handbook for the 1971/72 season (a pdf file of the whole brochure)
- Match programme
Other details
- Manager: Bill Shankly
- Opposition manager: Matthew Gillies
- Referee: Morrissey AE
- Attendance: 51,427
- Half-time score: 2
- 1 - Game number: 2987
- League game number: 2657
- LFC played towards Kop: First half
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