Liverpool squad arrive in Budapest

By Max Munton On · 60 Comments · In LFC News

Liverpool have arrived in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash with Debrecen.

Rafa Benitez has taken an 18 man squad, with most notable absentees being Fernando Torres and Ryan Babel, who are struggling with injuries.

The squad that did travel is: Pepe Reina, Diego Cavalieri, Glen Johnson, Daniel Agger, Fabio Aurelio, Emiliano Insua, Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Jamie Carragher, Martin Skrtel, Andrea Dossena, Alberto Aquilani, Steven Gerrard, Yossi Benayoun, Javier Mascherano, Lucas Leiva, Jay Spearing, Dirk Kuyt, David Ngog.

The Reds must beat Debrecen and hope that Fiorentina slip up against Lyon in Florence.

But Benitez has urged his players to forget about what is happening in Fiorentina’s game and concentrate on the job in hand – getting three points against Debrecen.

He said on the Reds’ departure from John Lennon Airport, “The message has to be to just concentrate on our game. We will know, maybe we’ll have some information, but we have to focus on our job.

“A lot depends on Fiorentina and Lyon, but the main thing for us is to concentrate on our game and see what happens.

“We have to prepare our game because we don’t have any influence over the other one. If we can do our job and win, we’ll see.

“I think we can do it. We have some players coming back from injury, so hopefully with a bit of luck we can progress.

“It’s football, so you never know. We’ll see if we can keep going in the Champions League.”

Debrecen vs Liverpool gets underway at 7.45pm tomorrow night.

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  • Odin_telamon

    Quote win ratios all you like,one champions leauge is something not to be sneered at but the fact remains we only looked like challengeing for the title once in his tenure and then we failed,so we start this season maybe believeing it may come and we have failed dramatically,we are no closer to the title now than we were 10 years ago but if the win ratio is important to you then enjoy,ps noticed you never mentioned dalglish is that because dalglish was better?

  • Odin_telamon

    Quote win ratios all you like,one champions leauge is something not to be sneered at but the fact remains we only looked like challengeing for the title once in his tenure and then we failed,so we start this season maybe believeing it may come and we have failed dramatically,we are no closer to the title now than we were 10 years ago but if the win ratio is important to you then enjoy,ps noticed you never mentioned dalglish is that because dalglish was better?

  • rome77

    Thats it Odin dismiss facts/stat and tell us your opinion over and over again.Ignore injuries to half the team ignore the lack of backing by G&H. Opinion’s are like ars*holes everyone has one. and sh*t is what comes from both.

  • rome77

    Thats it Odin dismiss facts/stat and tell us your opinion over and over again.Ignore injuries to half the team ignore the lack of backing by G&H. Opinion’s are like ars*holes everyone has one. and sh*t is what comes from both.

  • Odin_telamon

    Especially from your mouth

  • Odin_telamon

    Especially from your mouth

  • rome77

    More opinion Odin

  • rome77

    More opinion Odin

  • Odin_telamon

    Look the fact is we are more or less out of cl,if debrecen beat us or Lyon lose then we can concentrate on getting our run in the leauge together,you are the one who started lambasting people who are not from the pro rafa camp,also let me put it this way if Liverpool had to lose to say arsenal to stop Man United from winning the leauge what would you want, I would rather forget about cl this year and concentrate on getting that top four position if possible

  • Odin_telamon

    Look the fact is we are more or less out of cl,if debrecen beat us or Lyon lose then we can concentrate on getting our run in the leauge together,you are the one who started lambasting people who are not from the pro rafa camp,also let me put it this way if Liverpool had to lose to say arsenal to stop Man United from winning the leauge what would you want, I would rather forget about cl this year and concentrate on getting that top four position if possible

  • rome77

    Playing CL or Europa league either way it will get in the way of the PL so that kind of blows your excuse for cheering on Debrecen top fan you are.

  • rome77

    Playing CL or Europa league either way it will get in the way of the PL so that kind of blows your excuse for cheering on Debrecen top fan you are.

  • sam buca

    come on the mighty reds lets hammer debrecen and hope lyon restore some credibillity 2 french football by keeping 2 fiorentina at bay!

  • sam buca

    come on the mighty reds lets hammer debrecen and hope lyon restore some credibillity 2 french football by keeping 2 fiorentina at bay!

  • Odin_telamon

    You are pathetic, you quote win ratios and ignore the fact they have not brought us the leauge,the guy has f**ked our season up and you spout the usual mantra of blame the yanks ,this guy has had millions to buy replacments in that time and has squandered the majority of it on shit (Lucas,voronin etc)and yet the yanks are to blame I’ll spell this out as FACT,we are fast losing track in the leauge,our cl campaign is hanging by a thread no bigger than the brain in your head,his taticts are a f**k up which has cost us vital points,he does manipulate the fans because that is what his trump card is,all this roseyness and yet a growing number of fans are getting pissed and yet you say we are not true fans,go and get a life, have a look over the last five seasons and see how far of the pace we are in the leauge as regards to points then start quoteing win ratios and see what a pile of kack they are,also consider this a FOUR year old was stabbed today and here we are agrueing over a very average manager who is taking this club backwards,get things into perspective
    Also my thoughts go to the mother of said child RIP

  • Odin_telamon

    You are pathetic, you quote win ratios and ignore the fact they have not brought us the leauge,the guy has f**ked our season up and you spout the usual mantra of blame the yanks ,this guy has had millions to buy replacments in that time and has squandered the majority of it on shit (Lucas,voronin etc)and yet the yanks are to blame I’ll spell this out as FACT,we are fast losing track in the leauge,our cl campaign is hanging by a thread no bigger than the brain in your head,his taticts are a f**k up which has cost us vital points,he does manipulate the fans because that is what his trump card is,all this roseyness and yet a growing number of fans are getting pissed and yet you say we are not true fans,go and get a life, have a look over the last five seasons and see how far of the pace we are in the leauge as regards to points then start quoteing win ratios and see what a pile of kack they are,also consider this a FOUR year old was stabbed today and here we are agrueing over a very average manager who is taking this club backwards,get things into perspective
    Also my thoughts go to the mother of said child RIP

  • rome77

    Odin ” this guy has had millions to buy replacments in that time and has squandered the majority of it on shit (Lucas,voronin etc)” 7 million clearly the majority of 87 million so your just as stupid with maths then .
    I wasn’t aware of any 4 year old getting stabbed unlike you who still came in here with your idiotic comments as for your sincere “Also my thoughts go to the mother of said child RIP” Think of the millions of children who have died in the last 30 years while all the while you’ve been wasting your time been a fan of liverpool.Its all about perspective isn’t it Odin, unless your talking about Rafa in which case injuries and transfers dont come into your perspective. Last bit of advice on perspective go read Soccernomics it’ll explain a few things as to why we dont win the league. Then again dont bother your far too stupid to understand.

  • rome77

    Odin ” this guy has had millions to buy replacments in that time and has squandered the majority of it on shit (Lucas,voronin etc)” 7 million clearly the majority of 87 million so your just as stupid with maths then .
    I wasn’t aware of any 4 year old getting stabbed unlike you who still came in here with your idiotic comments as for your sincere “Also my thoughts go to the mother of said child RIP” Think of the millions of children who have died in the last 30 years while all the while you’ve been wasting your time been a fan of liverpool.Its all about perspective isn’t it Odin, unless your talking about Rafa in which case injuries and transfers dont come into your perspective. Last bit of advice on perspective go read Soccernomics it’ll explain a few things as to why we dont win the league. Then again dont bother your far too stupid to understand.

  • Odin_telamon

    Rome go and give yourself a well earned rest and let your brain relax,firstly everyone has a different perspective if you cannot grasp that then give up now,you also qoute soocernomics so now football is about figures is it,that means that he with the biggest bank account is a dead cert to win,oh well may as well give it to man city then! You try to portray lfc as being a poor club not capable of getting the signings because of lack of funds,well go liverpoolkop website read a couple of the articles about the revenue,the debt repayment etc then see that there is two sides of an argument,but then again your to narrow minded to firm an objective point of view,also the point I was making is that football is only a sport designed nowadays to extract the most money it can,you can sugarcoat it as much as you like but rafa has had over £200million to spend but you will try and deny this because the amount of cerebrialism required cannot puncture the density of the cranium to digest such facts,if you want to think I’m stupid you go for I’d kiddo I’m more than happy with my qualifications and my knowledge because unlike you I have life,ps if you ahvent heard about the 4 year old then tear yourself away from your computer and beano comic and watch the news and think a bit more and stop being such a narrow minded moron.
    Ps your right about the amount of people dying,but your wrong in presuming I don’t care,unlike you I don’t live for lfc I support them nothing more,nothing less they are my team as much as they are yours and anyone else

  • Odin_telamon

    Rome go and give yourself a well earned rest and let your brain relax,firstly everyone has a different perspective if you cannot grasp that then give up now,you also qoute soocernomics so now football is about figures is it,that means that he with the biggest bank account is a dead cert to win,oh well may as well give it to man city then! You try to portray lfc as being a poor club not capable of getting the signings because of lack of funds,well go liverpoolkop website read a couple of the articles about the revenue,the debt repayment etc then see that there is two sides of an argument,but then again your to narrow minded to firm an objective point of view,also the point I was making is that football is only a sport designed nowadays to extract the most money it can,you can sugarcoat it as much as you like but rafa has had over £200million to spend but you will try and deny this because the amount of cerebrialism required cannot puncture the density of the cranium to digest such facts,if you want to think I’m stupid you go for I’d kiddo I’m more than happy with my qualifications and my knowledge because unlike you I have life,ps if you ahvent heard about the 4 year old then tear yourself away from your computer and beano comic and watch the news and think a bit more and stop being such a narrow minded moron.
    Ps your right about the amount of people dying,but your wrong in presuming I don’t care,unlike you I don’t live for lfc I support them nothing more,nothing less they are my team as much as they are yours and anyone else

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