Toulouse vs Liverpool Today (Champions League)

The Reds are in France for today’s very early Champions League kick off against Toulouse, the game getting underway at 3:30 this afternoon. Toulouse did well at the weekend, beating current French Ligue 1 champions Lyon and Rafa Benitez seems quite keen to rest Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres given the upcoming weekend clash with Chelsea.

Gerrard admits Liverpool haven’t done too well in recent years at this stage…

We’ve not played particularly well in these qualifiers in previous years. With all due respect to some of the opponents we’ve had, we’ve always been able to get away with just doing enough without ever coming close to being at the top of our game.

Well, thats got to change today. Whether Gerrard and Torres play or not is irrelevant - the work needs to be done in the first leg, get the away goals, make the impression and make the return trip to Anfield towards the end of the month that bit easier. We’re off the back of a great pre-season and have the league campaign off to a winning start. Sure as hell would be nice to see that continue into the Champions League as well.

At present Paddy Power have Liverpool at 8/11 favourites to win the game with home boys Toulouse at 4/1. A 2-0 win for Liverpool would be nice, something I fancy anyway, thats priced at 6/1 but even at a 0-0 draw you’ll get 13/2. I’d expect Andriy Voronin to feature this afternoon and he’s priced 13/2 for first scorer.

The game should be covered on Setanta Sports and you’ll be able to follow the action on LiverpoolFC.tv and if at all possible here on LiverpoolAccess.com.

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