The Liverpool Legends confronted off towards Man United as soon as extra on Saturday, with Mark Gonzalez and Florent Sinama-Pongolle each on the scoresheet in a 2-1 win, stuffed with loads of memorable moments.
4 months after a dominant 3-1 win at Previous Trafford, the Liverpool Legends reunited, this time at Anfield for the second leg of the ‘Legends of the North’ conflict.
Sir Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush and John Aldridge made up the Reds’ administration crew for the event, one which heralded the return of Xabi Alonso.
The Spanish maestro shouldn’t be unfamiliar with these charity matches and he had plenty of generations reliving the recollections he dished up all through the 2000s.
That contact and imaginative and prescient, he nonetheless has it – not that we’re shocked!
After a 3-1 win within the first leg, Liverpool made positive of their triumph with a 2-1 victory, 5-2 on mixture, because of objectives from Gonzalez and Sinama-Pongolle.
Dimitar Berbatov began the scoring, although, the curse of the opening aim clearly not restricted to solely Jurgen Klopp‘s facet…
Gonzalez then added to his brace from Previous Trafford with a second-half aim that obtained Liverpool again on degree phrases in entrance of the Kop… the smile stated all of it.
Sinama-Pongolle was subsequent on the scoresheet with a tidy end from contained in the field, and his pleasure was contagious after the actual fact. He even dished out some Klopp-like fist pumps!
The event marked a possibility to mud off the boots, which included these of Bjorn Tore Kvarme…
Andriy Voronin was additionally again in purple…
And Martin Skrtel was current – and with a full head of hair!
Whereas Robbie Keane was included in a legends squad for the primary time …
Roy Keane’s presence for Man United, in the meantime, was heard earlier than he was seen as Anfield greeted him with a refrain of boos. He was fairly satisfied about it, as you may inform…
The match is all the time an gratifying one, with moments of humour additionally coupled with ability and nostalgia – and it’s all for an necessary trigger!
These have been your triumphant Liverpool Legends on the day…
Liverpool legends squad: Jerzy Dudek, Sander Westerveld, Martin Skrtel, Bjorn Tore Kvarme, Djimi Traore, Fabio Aurelio, Stephane Henchoz, Gregory Vignal, Xabi Alonso, Luis Garcia, Anthony Le Tallec, Salif Diao, Momo Sissoko, Mark Gonzalez, Albert Riera, Maxi Rodriguez, Robbie Keane, Andriy Voronin, Stewart Downing, Florent Sinama-Pongolle
