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Birmingham City

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Liverpool

Starting Lineup (Average age 27.76)

25	Pepe Reina
23	Jamie Carragher
22	Emiliano Insúa
2	Glen Johnson
16	Sotirios Kyrgiakos
15	Yossi Benayoun
8	Steven Gerrard (c)
21	Lucas Leiva
17	Maxi Rodriguez
18	Dirk Kuyt
9	Fernando Torres

Substitutes

1	Diego Cavalieri
5	Daniel Agger
27	Philipp Degen
4	Alberto Aquilani
19	Ryan Babel
20	Javier Mascherano
24	David N'Gog

Goals (Assists in brackets)

Steven Gerrard 47′ (Glen Johnson)

Substitutions

Fernando Torres replaced by David N'Gog 65′
Yossi Benayoun replaced by Ryan Babel 71′
Dirk Kuyt replaced by Alberto Aquilani 81′

Opposition Lineup (Average age 27.18)

Opposition goals

Liam Ridgewell 56′

Opposition substitutions

James McFadden replaced by Kevin Phillips 78′

Notes

- Pre-game stats: LFC lost 10 PL games, 7 more than in the whole of 08-09. Lost 6 PL games in 07-08 and 08-09 combined. Last lost more than 10 in 04-05 – lost 14. Finished 5th, ended that season with just 58 points.
- LFC were 2nd in PL after 32 games last season with 70 points, 1 behind leaders Man Utd. This season 6th with 54 points; dropped 42 points, only dropped 28 points in whole of 08-09.
- Kept 13 PL clean sheets this season. Only Man Utd (15) and Chelsea (14) have kept more.
- Emiliano Insúa tears quadriceps in his thigh and misses the rest of the season.

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Other details

Manager: Rafa Benítez

Opposition manager: Alex McLeish

Referee: Atkinson M

Attendance: 27,909

Half-time score: 0 - 0

Game number: 5198

League game number: 4215

League position after match: 6th

View other results

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Chelsea	33	23	5	5	84	30	+54	74
2	Man Utd	33	23	3	7	77	27	+50	72
3	Arsenal	33	22	5	6	75	34	+41	71
4	Man City	32	16	11	5	64	40	+24	59
5	Spurs	32	17	7	8	58	32	+26	58
6	Liverpool	33	16	7	10	54	33	+21	55
7	Aston Villa	32	14	12	6	44	32	+12	54
8	Everton	33	13	11	9	52	44	+8	50
9	Birmingham	33	12	10	11	34	38	-4	46
10	Stoke	32	10	12	10	32	35	-3	42
11	Blackburn	33	11	9	13	35	50	-15	42
12	Fulham	32	11	8	13	35	37	-2	41
13	Sunderland	33	9	11	13	44	51	-7	38
14	Wolves	33	8	8	17	28	51	-23	32
15	Bolton	33	8	8	17	36	61	-25	32
16	Wigan	33	8	7	18	30	64	-34	31
17	West Ham	33	6	10	17	40	57	-17	28
18	Hull	32	6	9	17	31	66	-35	27
19	Burnley	33	6	6	21	32	71	-39	24
20	Portsmouth	33	6	5	22	28	60	-32	14