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One of world football’s most famous names in Liverpool take on Melbourne Victory at a sold-out Melbourne Cricket Ground tonight. We’ll have live scores and updates from 8.00pm AEST.
Since the inception of the A-League, Melbourne Victory have taken on some of Europe’s finest in Juventus, Fulham, Celtic, Olympiacos and now the biggest of the bunch, Liverpool FC.
Not until the arrival of Sir Alex Ferguson to Manchester united in 1986, Liverpool FC were by far the most successful English football team with 18 league titles attained by 1991.
Unfortunately for those that sing the heartfelt song ‘You’ll never walk alone’, 1991 culminated in Liverpool winning their last League title as Sir Alex Ferguson ensured Manchester United would rain down on Liverpool’s parade.
22 seasons later and the fans from Anfield wait for a 19th League title whilst United push on for a 21st.
With one of the greatest sporting rivalries, it still seems as though ‘anything you can do I can do better’, as Manchester United left Sydney airport, Liverpool arrived to a rousing reception at Melbourne airport.
Brendan Rogers has promised a strong line-up for Liverpool as he aims to give the best preparation possible for what will be another difficult season in the EPL.
Australian football fans may get the chance to see Luis Suarez, Glen Johnson and fan favourite Steven Gerrard.
With Victory missing stars Archie Thompson, Mark Milligan and Mitch Nichols through international duty, the task is made harder due to key players Adama Traore and Gui Finkler still recovering from injury.
The re-inclusion of Nathan Coe and Connor Pain from East Asia Cup duty will be warmly received by Victory fans.
Victory coach, Ange Postecoglou, who also returns from representative duty having coached the A-league Allstars against EPL champions Manchester United, will have had a small amount of time to prepare his players for what will be the biggest friendly in the clubs short history.
The MCG will play host to close to 100,000 football supporters in what continues the recent push to bring the biggest and best football clubs from around the world to Australia.
This promises to be another dominant display from one of EPL’s finest in Liverpool.
But Victory, despite missing more than half of the 2012/13 starting 11, will surely be giving it their all in what will be a once in a lifetime experience and good preparation for both clubs for their respective seasons.
Prediction: Victory 1 – 4 Liverpool
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