Liverpool 2007–08 football season
The 2007–08 season was the 116th season in Liverpool Football Club ‘s being, and their 46th straight year in the circus tent trajectory, which covers the period from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008.
Reading: 2007–08 Liverpool F.C. season
Having finished third the previous season, Liverpool had qualified for the UEFA Champions League final qualify stage .
First-team team [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Left club during season [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
regular season [edit ]
August [edit ]
Liverpool began their Premier League temper with a travel to Aston Villa, which they won 2–1. This was followed by the first base leg of the Champions League modifier, at Toulouse. The game, unusually played on a weekday good afternoon, was won 1–0 by Liverpool. [ 1 ] Next came the first home game, a Premier League game against Chelsea. Liverpool took a leave through Fernando Torres ‘s first goal for the club, but Chelsea hit back with a challenge penalty, [ 2 ] ending the game 1–1. [ 3 ] Referee Rob Styles appeared to book Michael Essien doubly without sending him off, alike to Graham Poll at the 2006 World Cup. [ 2 ] Styles late admitted to have made an faulty decision to award the penalty and, unusually, apologised to Liverpool for his mistake ; he was subsequently dropped for the adjacent gameweek. [ 2 ] The third league game of the temper, a 2–0 away win at Sunderland, was celebrated for Mohamed Sissoko ‘s foremost ( and alone [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] ) Liverpool goal, after more than two years. This was besides the Reds ‘ 7,000th league finish. [ 7 ] The following Tuesday saw Liverpool play Toulouse at Anfield in the second base branch of their Champions League qualifying tie. Before kick-off, the Everton song “ omega Cars ” echo around Anfield, in memory of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, a local son who had been shot dead the former week. The game finished 4–0 to Liverpool, and the team thereby qualified for the group stage courtesy of a 5–0 aggregate scoreline. [ 8 ]
September [edit ]
Liverpool won their inaugural game of September against Derby County 6–0, [ 9 ] Liverpool ‘s biggest league winnings since April 2003 when they beat West Bromwich Albion by the same scoreline. [ 10 ] This gain took them to the top of the Premier League table for the first time under Rafa Benitez. [ 11 ] After a two-week external break dance, Liverpool ‘s next league plot was away to Portsmouth. The match ended in a 0–0 draw, after Pepe Reina saved Nwankwo Kanu ‘s penalty kick. [ 12 ] The pursuit workweek, the home league game against Birmingham City, ended in a similar scoreless scoreline. In between those two league draws Liverpool travelled to Porto to begin their Champions League Group A campaign against another team that had previously won the competition. The game, which ended 1–1, saw Jermaine Pennant sent off after receiving two yellow cards. [ 13 ] Liverpool got binding on a winning path when they travelled to Reading for a League Cup third gear rung tie. Liverpool beat their hosts 4–2, with Fernando Torres scoring his first Liverpool hat-trick. [ 14 ] This was followed up with a league achiever, away to Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium, where Yossi Benayoun ‘s 75th-minute strike—his second in two games—was enough to secure three points. [ 15 ]
October [edit ]
October ‘s first regular was the visit of Marseille, Liverpool ‘s second Champions League group stage equal. A spectacular individual finish from Marseille midfielder Mathieu Valbuena handed Liverpool a 0–1 loss, their first of the temper. defeated Liverpool coach Rafael Benítez described the equal as possibly the worst performance by the club under his management. [ 16 ] liverpool remained at Anfield for their follow crippled, the league visit of Tottenham Hotspur. A last-minute, injury-time, equalizer by Fernando Torres earned the team a 2–2 draw to preserve their unbeaten league record. [ 17 ] however, Liverpool bounced back to win the aside bowler hat to fierce rivals Everton. The match at Goodison Park was a contentious one, with the referee ‘s performance heavily criticised by Everton director David Moyes. Dirk Kuyt scored two penalties that saw Liverpool come from behind to win 2–1. [ 18 ] The one-third of Liverpool ‘s Champions League group games was a tripper to Istanbul, where they had won the trophy in 2005. [ 19 ] On this juncture, however, Liverpool fans had little to celebrate as their hosts Beşiktaş dealt their slope ‘s chances of progressing in the contest a dangerous blow by winning 2–1. [ 20 ] The highest seeded team in their group, Liverpool were now bottom of their four with merely a point from their first three qualifying games. [ 21 ] Liverpool finished the calendar month with a match of home fixtures. The league visit of Arsenal yielded a 1–1 draw, [ 22 ] whilst the League Cup inflict of Cardiff City, who featured Liverpool caption Robbie Fowler in their line-up, gave the Reds a 2–1 win and Nabil El Zhar his beginning Liverpool finish. [ 23 ]
November [edit ]
Liverpool began the calendar month of November with a 0–0 away describe at Blackburn Rovers, [ 24 ] further extending their unbeaten run in the league. [ 25 ] They followed this by ultimately injecting biography into their Champions League political campaign with an emphatic 8–0 home victory over Beşiktaş. A hat-trick from Yossi Benayoun, a goal from captain Steven Gerrard and two each from both Ryan Babel and Peter Crouch gave Liverpool fans something to celebrate as Liverpool established a modern record for margin of victory in a Champions League match ( the former best, 7–0, had been held jointly by Arsenal and Juventus ). [ 21 ] On 10 November, the Champions League win was followed up with a Premier League one, as Liverpool beat Fulham 2–0 at Anfield. Fernando Torres came off the judiciary to break the deadlock in the 81st hour, and Steven Gerrard scored a penalty acquire by Peter Crouch four minutes late to seal the victory. [ 26 ] After another international bankrupt, the team ‘s 13th league game took place, on 24 November at Newcastle United. Steven Gerrard, who had been booed by the Newcastle fans for his part in England ‘s failure to qualify for UEFA Euro 2008, opened the score for the Reds and two more goals from Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel gave Liverpool a 3–0 succeed. [ 27 ] The team ended the month by hosting their penultimate Champions League group bet on, the must-win sojourn of Porto. Liverpool won 4–1 [ 28 ] and, as Fernando Torres scored the first two Champions League goals of his career, baseball club captain Steven Gerrard set a personal milestone of his own by equalling Michael Owen ‘s club record of 22 goals in the Champions League. [ 29 ]
December [edit ]
The golf club kicked off a busy calendar month by registering a 4–0 league gain against Bolton Wanderers at Anfield. [ 30 ] This acquire stretched Liverpool ‘s winning streak to five games, [ 25 ] during which they scored 21 goals and conceded merely one, and continued their unbeaten league run. [ 31 ] however, this unbeaten start to the league temper was cut short the follow workweek when the chew the fat to Reading resulted in a 3–1 defeat on 8 December. After the hosts converted a penalty for a challenge that television replays showed had occurred on the line, Steven Gerrard equalised for Liverpool before two second-half goals from Reading handed Liverpool their first league loss of the season. [ 32 ] Three days former, yet again needing a win to guarantee their survival in the contest, Liverpool travelled to Marseille for their final Champions League Group A fixture. Marseille had previously hosted english teams in Europe on six occasions and won all six times, [ 33 ] and only needed a trace to progress themselves. however, Liverpool registered their second 4–0 acquire of the calendar month to finish second in their group and progress to the round of 16. [ 34 ] On 16 December, Liverpool hosted arch-rivals Manchester United in a full of life Premier League match. The match ended with a 1–0 victory for Manchester United, their one-fourth in their stopping point five league visits to Anfield, giving the latter a nine-point run over Liverpool in the Premier League. The only goal was scored by Carlos Tevez. Arsenal beat Chelsea 1–0 late in the day to give themselves a ten-point spark advance over Liverpool at the exceed of the Premiership. Liverpool travelled to Chelsea for the League Cup quarter-final on 19 December. They were beaten 2–0 through a distract goal from Frank Lampard and an injury-time finish from Andriy Shevchenko. Peter Crouch was sent off after a bipedal harness on Mikel John Obi. [ 35 ] Three days before Christmas, Liverpool hosted Portsmouth, looking to get their Premier League campaign back on track after two consecutive defeats. Liverpool continued a record of remaining undefeated at Anfield against Pompey since 1951 by triumphing 4–1. Fernando Torres scored twice to continue his dependable run of score, while the other goals came from Yossi Benayoun and a Sylvain Distin own finish. In the Boxing Day regular, Liverpool managed a 2–1 victory over Derby, with goals from Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard respectively, before playing out a scoreless draw at the City of Manchester Stadium in their final game of 2007 .
January [edit ]
Liverpool ‘s beginning game of 2008 was a home game against Wigan, which ended in a 1–1 draw. [ 36 ] This was followed by their beginning FA Cup crippled of the season, the third circle link against Luton Town, which besides finished 1–1. In the replay a week later, Liverpool beat them 5–0 at home, in which Steven Gerrard scored his moment Liverpool hat-trick. On 26 January 2008, Liverpool defeated Havant & Waterlooville 5–2, despite going behind doubly in the first half. [ 37 ] After that they travelled to Upton Park, where they faced West Ham United. An wound time penalty from Mark Noble saw them slump to a 1–0 defeat, their third of the league season. Martin Škrtel was the first sign by Liverpool in the January transfer window. The undisclosed fee was rumoured to be £6.5 million, which would be the highest come paid by the club for a defender. [ 38 ] Mohamed Sissoko, who had found himself playing fewer games after the arrivals of Javier Mascherano and Lucas, [ 39 ] transferred to Juventus, and Jack Hobbs, who had played some first team games this season, [ 39 ] joined Scunthorpe United on lend until the end of the season. [ 40 ]
February [edit ]
Liverpool ‘s first game of February was against Sunderland at Anfield, which was won 3–0. [ 41 ] On 10 February, Liverpool travelled to Stamford Bridge and played out a 0–0 draw with Chelsea. [ 42 ] Liverpool played Barnsley on 16 February in the FA Cup fifth round and lost 2–1 at Anfield, but then beat Inter Milan on 19 February in the UEFA Champions League round off of sixteen inaugural leg, winning 2–0. Their last game of the calendar month, against Middlesbrough on 23 February, produced a 3–2 gain for Liverpool, with a Fernando Torres hat-trick .
March [edit ]
Liverpool ‘s first bet on in March was away against Bolton which they won 3–1 through an own finish by Jussi Jääskeläinen and strikes from Ryan Babel and Fábio Aurélio, his foremost for the club. On 5 March, Liverpool played against West Ham. Liverpool won this crippled 4–0, with a finish from Steven Gerrard and another hat-trick from Fernando Torres, making him the first Liverpool player in over 60 years to web hat-tricks in consecutive home games. [ 43 ] Three days belated, Liverpool beat newcastle 3–0 at home, with goals from Jermaine Pennant, Torres and Gerrard. On 11 March, Liverpool became the second gear English team in a week to win at the San Siro by winning against Inter Milan 1–0, with Torres again the scorekeeper. Back in the league, Javier Mascherano scored his first finish for Liverpool [ 44 ] and Fernando Torres scored his twentieth league finish of the season, becoming the beginning musician at the golf club since Robbie Fowler to do sol as Liverpool won 2–1 over Reading. however, their seven peer winning stripe was ended when they lost 3–0 to Manchester United. Javier Mascherano was sent off by reviewer Steve Bennett for dissent after Mascherano questioned the controversial book of Fernando Torres. Liverpool ‘s final fixture of March was against Everton at Anfield. Torres scored the only goal early in the match, and Liverpool held on to win 1–0, giving them a five-point lead over Everton for fourthly station .
April [edit ]
On 1 April, in the Champions League, Liverpool faced Arsenal for the first of three straight meetings, a 1–1 hook at the Emirates Stadium with Dirk Kuyt scoring an away goal. On 5 April they drew 1–1 once again at the Emirates. Peter Crouch scored for Liverpool to take the lead but Nicklas Bendtner scored the counterweight for Arsenal, [ 45 ] while Damien Plessis made his debut. [ 46 ] In the third game, Liverpool beat armory 4–2 ( 5–3 on aggregate ) to reach the Champions League semi-final. In the stick to game, Steven Gerrard scored in his three-hundredth Liverpool appearance in the Premier League in a 3–1 home gain over Blackburn Rovers. The following Saturday, Liverpool put out a cut slope against Fulham ahead of their semi-final first leg with Chelsea and won 2–0, with Jermaine Pennant and Peter Crouch getting on the scoresheet. On 22 April, Liverpool played Chelsea at Anfield in the Champions League semi-final first leg. Liverpool looked to be going into the second stage with a 1–0 advantage through Dirk Kuyt, but in the final minute of blockage prison term John Arne Riise unintentionally headed a Salomon Kalou intersect into his own net, giving Chelsea a slender advantage through the away finish. The adjacent Saturday, at Birmingham City, Liverpool again put out a hurt side before the 2nd stage with Chelsea. Damien Plessis started again, and Liverpool fought back from 2–0 down to 2–2, with Crouch and Benayoun score. That point secured fourth smudge for Liverpool. The adjacent Wednesday Liverpool played Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final at Stamford Bridge, but lost 3–2 in extra meter ( 4–3 on aggregate ), sending Liverpool out of the Champions League .
May [edit ]
On 4 May, Liverpool beat Manchester City 1–0 at Anfield. On the final examination day of the Premier League, Liverpool won 2–0 away at Tottenham, with Andriy Voronin scoring his sixth of the season and Torres ‘ 24th league finish, breaking Ruud avant-garde Nistelrooy ‘s criminal record for the most goals scored by a extraneous Premier League player in a debut season .
Premier League [edit ]
Liverpool v Portsmouth 22 December 2007 17 4–1Liverpool, Merseyside
Benayoun 13 ‘
Distin 16 ‘ (o.g.)
Torres 66 ‘, 85 ‘
Report
Benjani 57 ‘
Stadium: Anfield
Attendance: 43,071Liverpool v Middlesbrough 23 February 2008 26 3–2
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Liverpool, Merseyside
Torres 28 ‘, 29 ‘, 61 ‘
Report
Tuncay 9 ‘
Downing 83 ‘
Stadium: Anfield
Attendance: 43,612
Referee: Lee Mason
categorization [edit ]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
For further information on European qualification see source : Premier League Rules for classification : 1 ) points ; 2 ) goal difference ; 3 ) number of goals scored.For far information on european reservation see Premier League – Competition
Results by round of golf [edit ]
Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738GroundAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAAHAResultWDWWDDWDWDDWWWLLWWDDDDLWDWWWWWLWDWWDWWPosition41211122333432244434444444444444444444
A
= Away;
H
= Home;
W
= Win;
D
= Draw;
L
= Loss beginning : Game log
Results compendious [edit ]
Overall
Home
Away
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
38
21
13
4
67
28
+39
76
12
6
1
43
13
+30
9
7
3
24
15
+9
big Four Games [edit ]
Overall
Home
Away
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
6
0
4
2
3
7
−4
4
0
2
1
2
3
−1
0
2
1
1
4
−3
Cup Competitions [edit ]
FA Cup [edit ]
Liverpool v Luton Town 15 January 2008 Third Round Replay 5–0Liverpool20:00
Babel 45 ‘
Gerrard 52 ‘, 64 ‘, 71 ‘
Hyypiä 57 ‘
Report
Stadium: Anfield
Attendance: 41,446Liverpool v Barnsley 16 February 2008 Fifth Round 1–2Liverpool15:00
Kuyt 32 ‘
Report
Foster 57 ‘
Howard 90 ‘
Stadium: Anfield
Attendance: 42,449
Referee: Martin Atkinson
UEFA Champions League [edit ]
third qualifying attack [edit ]
Group stage [edit ]
Group A
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Porto
6
3
2
1
8
7
+1
11
Liverpool
6
3
1
2
18
5
+13
10
Marseille
6
2
1
3
6
9
−3
7
Beşiktaş
6
2
0
4
4
15
−11
6
Knockout phase [edit ]
Round of 16 [edit ]
circus tent scorers [edit ]
disciplinary record [edit ]
last updated : 11 May
Source : match reports in Game Log
only competitive matches
= Number of bookings ; = Number of sending offs after a second chicken card ; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card .
Squad statistics [edit ]
- Last updated on 11 January 2009
No.
Pos
Nat
Player
Total
Premier League
Champions League
FA Cup
League Cup
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Transfers [edit ]
In [edit ]
Out [edit ]
Loaned out [edit ]
- In: £29,950,000+
- Out: £64,200,000+
- Total spending: £34,250,000+
Reserves and U-18s [edit ]
summary [edit ]
The reserves side were crowned champions of the Barclays Premier Reserve League North this season on 7 April 2008, the 17th modesty league title for the club. They became National Champions after beating southerly Champions Aston Villa Reserves 3–0 in the Premier Reserve League Play-off Final at Anfield on 7 May 2008. The reserves besides reached the finals of the Liverpool Senior Cup and the Lancashire Senior Cup, and won the international football tournament Dallas Cup. Krisztián Németh, who scored 9 goals in 12 matches, was the acme scorer in the Premier Reserve League North. The under-18s finish fifth in the Premier Academy League and qualified for the last 16 in FA Youth Cup. Nathan Eccleston was the best scorekeeper in the youth team with 18 goals .
New players [edit ]
After the departure of Steve Heighway, Dutchman Piet Hamberg came in to run the academy. equally well as some changes to background personnel, the reserve and youth sides were bolstered by several new players :
Players this temper [edit ]
Reserves [edit ]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
- Squad numbers refer to players’ first team squad number where applicable. Reserve and youth games are 1–11.
Records [edit ]
- Mohamed Sissoko’s goal against Sunderland was not only his first (and only) goal for the club but also Liverpool’s 7000th league goal.[62]
- The 6–0 defeat of Derby County was the first time Liverpool had scored six in the league since April 2003 against West Bromwich Albion.
- The 8–0 victory over Beşiktaş was the biggest ever win in the Champions League, surpassing two previous 7–0 victories by Juventus and Arsenal.[21]
- The 4–0 win over Marseille was Liverpool’s biggest away win in the Champions League.
- The 2–0 win at Anfield against Inter was Liverpool’s 100th win at Anfield in European competition.
- Liverpool scored a hat trick in every competition they played in this season.
- Liverpool were the first Premiership team to score 100 goals in all competitions.
Notes [edit ]
References [edit ]
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