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Liverpool Facing Judgement Night at Anfield

November 5th, 2007

The Champions League returns this week with the fourth round of Group games, at which stage some big names are already facing the nightmare of an early exit from European soccer’s main stage. The club with the biggest point to prove is surely Liverpool, winners in 2006 and finalists last season, who are bottom of Group A with just a single point. 

Liverpool have a straight forward task at home to Besiktas on Tuesday night, they must win or face a humiliating early exit from this season’s Champions League. Having suffered back-to-back defeats in the competition, the Scousers only have a point from a draw in Porto on matchday one, leaving them rooted to the bottom of Group A, and unable to call on record signing, Fernando Torres.

The Pool are of course no strangers to great escapes in this competition, their comebacks against Olympiakos in the 2006 group stages and again in the unforgettable final against AC Milan, prove they should never be written off. 

Besiktas’s recent history in the competition is poor by comparison, having failed to make it to the Group stages on three previous occasions. They have only won once in ten away fixtures, but that was also on English soil springing a big surprise at Stamford Bridge in 2003, no mean feat. The Black Eagles were dealt a double blow on the weekend, losing a big Derby game against Fenerbahce, as well as defender, Gokhan Zan, for a month, joining Rodrigo Tello and Marcio Nobre on the sidelines. PinnacleSports.com unsurprisingly make Liverpool firm favourites 2.04 (-1.5 & -2) with Besiktas 1.893 (+1.5 & +2).

This Champions League preview for Matchday 4 is from Simon at PinnacleSports.com.
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