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Liverpool 2-1 Middlesbrough - August 23, 2008 / Premier League 2008/2009

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Premier League 2008/2009 - Round 2

Anfield - Liverpool - England

August 23, 2008

Liverpool

2 - 1

Middlesbrough

(o.g) Emanuel Pogatetz

86'

Steven Gerrard

90'

70'

Mido

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60' - Substitution Afonso Alvesis substituted by Mido

65' - Substitution Yossi Benayounis substituted by Ryan Babel65

70' - Goal Mido

75' - Substitution Andrea Dossenais substituted by Fábio Aurelio75

75' - Substitution Andrew Tayloris substituted by Justin Hoyte

83' - Substitution Álvaro Arbeloais substituted by Nabil El Zhar83

86' - Own goal Emanuel Pogatetz86

87' - Substitution Sanli Tuncayis substituted by Didier Digard

90' - Goal Steven Gerrard90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Liverpool

2 - 1

Middlesbrough

Liverpool Middlesbrough

Team line-ups

Liverpool

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Torres

Fernando Torres

Spain

B.date20/03/1984

Age24 years

H1m86

positionStriker

Keane

Robbie Keane

Republic of Ireland

B.date08/07/1980

Age28 years

H1m76

positionStriker

Benayoun65

Yossi Benayoun

Israel

B.date05/05/1980

Age28 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Alonso

Xabi Alonso

Spain

B.date25/11/1981

Age26 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

Gerrard90

Steven Gerrard

England

B.date30/05/1980

Age28 years

H1m83

positionRight central midfielder

Kuyt

Dirk Kuyt

Netherlands

B.date22/07/1980

Age28 years

H1m84

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Dossena75

Andrea Dossena

Italy

B.date11/09/1981

Age26 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Skrtel

Martin Skrtel

Slovakia

B.date15/12/1984

Age23 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Carragher

Jamie Carragher

England

B.date28/01/1978

Age30 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Arbeloa83

Álvaro Arbeloa

Spain

B.date17/01/1983

Age25 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Reina

Pepe Reina

Spain

B.date31/08/1982

Age25 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Pepe Reina		25	159	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jamie Carragher		30	526	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Skrtel		23	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andrea Dossena	75	26	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Álvaro Arbeloa	83	25	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Xabi Alonso		26	166	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Gerrard	90	28	442	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yossi Benayoun	65	28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dirk Kuyt		28	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robbie Keane		28	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Fernando Torres		24	49	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

143

Middlesbrough

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Tuncay87

Sanli Tuncay

Turkey

B.date16/01/1982

Age26 years

H1m82

positionOffensive Midfielder

Alves60

Afonso Alves

Brazil

B.date30/01/1981

Age27 years

H1m85

positionStriker

Downing

Stewart Downing

England

B.date22/07/1984

Age24 years

H1m81

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Shawky

Mohamed Shawky

Egypt

B.date05/10/1981

Age26 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

O'Neil

Gary O'Neil

England

B.date18/05/1983

Age25 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Aliadière

Jérémie Aliadière

France

B.date30/03/1983

Age25 years

H1m81

positionCentre forward

Taylor75

Andrew Taylor

England

B.date01/08/1986

Age22 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Pogatetz86

Emanuel Pogatetz

Austria

B.date16/01/1983

Age25 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

Huth

Robert Huth

Germany

B.date18/08/1984

Age24 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

Wheater

David Wheater

England

B.date14/02/1987

Age21 years

H1m96

positionLeft central defender

Turnbull

Ross Turnbull

England

B.date04/01/1985

Age23 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Ross Turnbull		23	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Robert Huth		24	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Emanuel Pogatetz	86	25	114	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Wheater		21	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Andrew Taylor	75	22	85	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mohamed Shawky		26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gary O'Neil		25	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Sanli Tuncay	87	26	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stewart Downing		24	193	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Afonso Alves	60	27	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jérémie Aliadière		25	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Fábio Aurelio	75	28	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nabil El Zhar	83	21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ryan Babel	65	21	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Justin Hoyte	75	23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Didier Digard	87	22	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mido	7060	25	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Martin Skrtel

Sami Hyypiä

OUT

Xabi Alonso

Damien Plessis

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ross Turnbull

Bradley Jones

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Rafa Benítez

242

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Benítez vs Middlesbrough

5 victories

4 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on August 23, 2008

Benítez vs Southgate

3 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on August 23, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Gareth Southgate

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

30 %

Southgate vs Liverpool

0 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on August 23, 2008

Southgate vs Benítez

0 victory

2 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on August 23, 2008

Referee

Mike Riley

19 victories	7 draws	12 losses	Liverpool38 matches	General total	Middlesbrough32 matches	10 victories	10 draws	12 losses
4 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Liverpool4 matches	Season total	Middlesbrough3 matches	0 victory	1 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on April 11, 2009					Latest figure on May 16, 2009

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Key figures

End of streak for Middlesbrough after 3 consecutive wins (since 03/05/2008). It was the best streak for the club since 08/02/2006-19/02/2006 (4 matches).

Middlesbrough keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 19/04/2008).

End of streak for Liverpool after 4 matches without conceding any goal (since 04/05/2008). It was the best streak for the club since 18/11/2006-02/12/2006 (5 matches).

Read the next 19 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VLiverpool 2-1 Reading15/03/2008

VLiverpool 1-0 Everton30/03/2008

VLiverpool 4-2 Arsenal08/04/2008

VLiverpool 3-1 Blackburn13/04/2008

DLiverpool 1-1 Chelsea22/04/2008

VLiverpool 1-0 Manchester City04/05/2008

Overall

DBirmingham City 2-2 Liverpool26/04/2008

LChelsea 3-2 Liverpool30/04/2008

VLiverpool 1-0 Manchester City04/05/2008

VTottenham 0-2 Liverpool11/05/2008

DStandard Liège 0-0 Liverpool13/08/2008

VSunderland 0-1 Liverpool16/08/2008

Current form

Away

LLiverpool 3-2 Middlesbrough23/02/2008

DAston Villa 1-1 Middlesbrough12/03/2008

DArsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough15/03/2008

LChelsea 1-0 Middlesbrough30/03/2008

DTottenham 1-1 Middlesbrough12/04/2008

LSunderland 3-2 Middlesbrough26/04/2008

Overall

DTottenham 1-1 Middlesbrough12/04/2008

LMiddlesbrough 0-1 Bolton Wanderers19/04/2008

LSunderland 3-2 Middlesbrough26/04/2008

VMiddlesbrough 2-0 Portsmouth03/05/2008

VMiddlesbrough 8-1 Manchester City11/05/2008

VMiddlesbrough 2-1 Tottenham16/08/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	10	4
Drawless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	17	1
Invincibility streak	1	4

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	3
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	3
Winless streak	8	0
Drawless streak	1	5
Scoring streak	2	4
Conceding streak	6	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

5	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	136
4	FBDB index ranking (National)	13

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	1
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	2
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	1
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	1
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

	Fernando Torres	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Mido
	Fernando Torres	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Mido

Historical head to head

Home

71 matches

40 v

17 d

14 l

151 gf

68 ga

Away

68 matches

20 v

22 d

26 l

87 gf

108 ga

Total

139 matches

60 v

39 d

40 l

238 gf

176 ga

Historical head to head

Home

68 matches

26 v

22 d

20 l

108 gf

87 ga

Away

71 matches

14 v

17 d

40 l

68 gf

151 ga

Total

139 matches

40 v

39 d

60 l

176 gf

238 ga

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 2	September 16, 1931
Home	7 - 2	September 16, 1931

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	August 31, 1929
Away	2 - 0	March 06, 1976

Latest head to head

February 23, 2008 - Premier League 2007/2008

Liverpool

3 - 2

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

January 12, 2008 - Premier League 2007/2008

Middlesbrough

1 - 1

Liverpool

April 18, 2007 - Premier League 2006/2007

Liverpool

2 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

November 18, 2006 - Premier League 2006/2007

Middlesbrough

0 - 0

Liverpool

December 10, 2005 - Premier League 2005/2006

Liverpool

2 - 0

Middlesbrough logo Middlesbrough

Best historical scorers against Middlesbrough

Robbie Fowler	6 goals	1996 - 1998
Terry McDermott	5 goals	1975 - 1980
David Johnson	5 goals	1978 - 1981
Gordon Hodgson	4 goals	1934 - 1935
Fernando Torres	4 goals	2008 - 2008
Ian Rush	4 goals	1981 - 1993

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Liverpool

Fabrizio Ravanelli	3 goals	1996 - 1996
David Shearer	3 goals	1980 - 1981
Gareth Southgate	2 goals	2002 - 2002
Brian Deane	2 goals	1998 - 1999
Paul Merson	2 goals	1998 - 1998
Chris Riggott	1 goal	2004 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Middlesbrough

Jamie Carragher	20 matches	1997 - 2008
Ray Kennedy	17 matches	1974 - 1981
Phil Neal	17 matches	1975 - 1982
Steven Gerrard	17 matches	1999 - 2008
Ray Clemence	16 matches	1974 - 1981
Sami Hyypiä	15 matches	1999 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 21/10/1933. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Liverpool

Mark Schwarzer	20 matches	1998 - 2008
John Craggs	15 matches	1974 - 1982
Jim Platt	14 matches	1974 - 1982
David Armstrong	14 matches	1974 - 1981
Anthony McAndrew	13 matches	1976 - 1982
Robbie Mustoe	13 matches	1992 - 2002