Rapid Vienna 1-0 Liverpool
FC
Liverpool looked lacklustre and tired as they fell to a 1-0
defeat at the hands of Rapid Vienna in Austria on Sunday
evening.
Playing in front of a packed out Ernst Happel Stadium, Reds boss
Benitez again experimented with the side playing a mixture of youth
and experience.
Javier Mascherano came on as a second half substitute, amid
rumours all summer linking him with a big money move to
Barcelona.
It was a sluggish performance by the Reds though, with several
failed frustrated efforts in front of goal and idleness at the back
which must be addressed.
German midfielder Steffen Hofmann got the game’s only goal half
way through the second half when he impressively and accurately
curled in a free-kick in from just outside the Reds area past Peter
Gulacsi in Liverpool’s goal.
Liverpool now travel East for a mini-tour of South East Asia
where they will play Singapore, but first, Thailand in an evening
friendly in Bangkok this coming Wednesday, 22nd July.
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Line-up:
Cavalieri, Degen, Insua, Carragher, Ayala, Gerrard, Plessis, Babel,
El Zhar, Nemeth, Voronin.
