Liverpool impressed with their first pre-season win, with plenty of goals, smiles and cheers against Singapore.
The Asian side approached and tackled the Reds everything else but softly, giving away many free kicks but letting nothing and nobody through too easily. It took a touch an deflection off their defender Daniel Bennett to take Andriy Voronin's shot away and past the goalkeeper Hassan Sunny just before half time.
David Ngog impressed with busy and lively play and interacting well, with Daniel Agger pushing fine from left-back, Voronin and Javier Mascherano always ready to connect but finding it hard to break through into the box.
The second half saw only a few changes, three for Liverpool, the Reds keeping on dominating most of the play and possession. Mascherano's cross from right outside the box was chested and netted with a confident left-footed drill by Albert Riera making it 2-0.
With just under half an hour to go, Rafael Benítez made a bulk of changes (seven) which livened up play immensely and entertainingly. With a hat-trick of assists, Dirk Kuyt livened up the crowd, match and scoreboard - Spanish striker Fernando Torres causing the loudest screams and cheers when he netted the ball and Hungarian youngster Krisztian Nemeth pressing and impressing with two goals, one with the right and one header just in front of goal, having an easy job after the breakthrough and unselfish work by his Dutch team mate.
This was a much better display and blend in the match and from the team. They will return from Asia much happier and confident compared to the couple of matches before, having gotten the scoreboard ticking and the team clicking.
Singapore Sunny (75 Lewis); Rahman, Khaizan, Bennett, Jantan (67 Esah); Jiayi (65 Muhamed), Fahrudin (86 nr 26), Harun, Ishak (56 Qiuli); Shah (52 Sahdan); Duric (46 Casmir). Bookings 37 Rahman.
Liverpool Cavalieri (46 Gulacsi, 77 Reina); Degen (62 Spearing), San José (46 Insua), Carragher (62 Kelly), Agger (77 Alonso); Benayoun (62 Torres), Lucas (62 Kuyt), Mascherano (62 Pacheco), Babel (46 Riera, 77 Dossena); Ngog (62 Nemeth), Voronin (62 Plessis).
1st half stats: Singapore-Liverpool
Attempts: 1-7
On target: 1-2
Offsides: 1-2
Corners: 0-5
Free kicks: 4-12
2nd half stats: Singapore-Liverpool
Attempts: 4-12
On target: 0-7
Offsides: 0-0
Corners: 2-4
Free kicks: 0-3
Referee: Abdul Malik Bashir
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