Liverpool 1 United 0: Reds disappoint as 10-man Pool take deserved win

September 17th 2009, 7.30pm
Prenton Park, Birkenhead

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Liverpool Reserves	1-0	Manchester United Reserves

N’gog 5

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United’s unbeaten start to the season was ended in frustrating fashion at Prenton Park this evening, a Liverpool side reduced to ten men just after the half-hour mark managing to hang onto a 1-0 lead handed to them by David N’gog inside the first five minutes.

Sloppy defending allowed N’gog to pounce on a long ball and wrong-foot Ron-Robert Zieler in the United goal, and a strong Reds second-string struggled to get a foothold in the match as Liverpool controlled the first half-hour. A dubious red card for Damian Plessis then threatened to turn the game on its head, but while Ole Solskjaer’s side dominated possession thereafter and eventually fashioned several decent chances, an equaliser wasn’t to be forthcoming and a first reserve league defeat since March couldn’t be avoided.

 
UNITED
1. Ron-Robert Zieler
2. David Gray
3. Joe Dudgeon (12. Oliver Gill 66)
4. Corry Evans (c)
5. James Chester
6. Ritchie de Laet
7. Danny Welbeck
8. Federico Macheda
9. Joshua King
10. Magnus Eikrem
11. Zoran Tošić (16. Robbie Brady 77)

Subs not used
13. Ben Amos
14. Oliver Norwood
15. Ryan Tunnicliffe

Booked: de Laet, Chester

Ref: R J Madley