Hertha Berlin v Liverpool match thread

[livvy145]

PACHECO AND VORONIN FACE HERTHA

Paul Hassall in the Olympiastadion (Berlin) 22 July 2008

Daniel Pachecho will lead the line alongside Andriy Voronin as the Reds look to notch up their third win of the pre-season against Hertha Berlin in Germany.

Jamie Carragher will once again skipper the side in the absence of the injured Steven Gerrard while their also place in the starting XI for Jermaine Pennant, Sebastian Leto and Javier Mascherano.

New signing Andrea Dossena returns to the bench after making his debut against Wisla Krakow with Dirk Kuyt, Yossi Benayoun and Martin Skrtel also amongst the substitutes.

The Liverpool team in full:

Cavalieri
Darby
Insua
Agger
Carragher
Plessis
Mascherano
Pennant
Leto
Pacheco
Voronin.


Subs: Martin, Dossena, Hyypia, Skrtel, Degen, Benayoun, Kuyt, Spearing, Hobbs.

[SloScouse]

Where's Lucas? He's featured in every preseason match so far, but he's not even on the bench today?

[Davex2IRL]

Grand looking forward to watching this on the TV, kept getting ****e connections on the internet streams for the last two matches!!!

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

with the Spanish lads missing are team doesn't seem to change very much each game. I am predicting a narrow loss/draw for the reds 2night =/

[JPK]

So did I. I get a buzz everytime I see Pachecho in the first 11 and Insua too but not as much. Pacheco has that bit of magic. Nice to see Darby getting a run of games.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Darby impressed me in the last game and I know what you mean about Pacheco he's got all the potential to be special.

[JPK]

Darby impressed me in the last game and I know what you mean about Pacheco he's got all the potential to be special.

He does indeed. Darby seems to be a very dedicated and steady type. He seems to get better every year. It will be nice to finally see some of the squad players being homegrown.

[livvy145]

Where's Lucas? He's featured in every preseason match so far, but he's not even on the bench today?

Him and Babel are both missing. Looks like they've left for the Olympics a bit earlier than Mascherano.

[bigfooty]

Teams are out and doing handshakes.

[JPK]

Looks like a class stadium and pitch.

[livvy145]

Link for those without live TV.

http://www.justin.tv/mstv_2

[bigfooty]

Early pressure from us but nothing comes of it.

Pennant with a nice touch to beat his man, reasonable ball in but Voronin can't make contact.

[bigfooty]

Darby with a crunching tackle.

[bigfooty]

Long range effort from the Germans, screams just wide.

[bigfooty]

Pennant overruns the ball and tackes a knock stretching to reach it.