| Sunday 12 January 1986 15:05
Cannon League Division One |
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| "Watford" |
2 - 3 |
"Liverpool" |
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(1-1) |
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| GOAL |
| Jackett 18, Sterling 86 |
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Walsh 44, 85, Rush 75 |
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1 Tony Coton
- Nigel Gibbs
- Wilf Rostron
- Talbot
- Franklin
- McClelland
- Worrell Sterling
- Nigel Callaghan
- West
- Kenny Jackett
- John Barnes
Subs:
12 Lohman |
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1 Bruce
Grobbelaar
2 Steve Nicol
3 Kevin MacDonald
4 Mark Lawrenson
5 Ronnie Whelan
6 Alan Hansen (c)
7 Paul Walsh
8 Craig Johnston
9 Ian Rush
10 Jan Molby
11 Steve McMahon
Subs:
12 John Wark |
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| SUBSTITUTIONS |
| Talbot (Lohman ?) |
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| OFFICIALS & BOOKINGS |
| Referee: Martin Bodenham |
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Booked: |
| VENUE |
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MANAGERS |
Vicarage Road (capacity )
Attendance: 16,967 |
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Graham Taylor (Watford)
Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool) |
 Price: 50 pence
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Walsh puts Liverpool
back on course
The football world and Bobby Robson watched on live TV yesterday as Paul Walsh
fired Liverpool back into championship contention and public respect. Walsh will know in a
week whether the two-goal performance which put Liverpool vividly back into TV focus for
the first time since Brussels has put him also on the England route to Egypt...perhaps en
route to Mexico.
Walsh's international career has been in abeyance since the squabble with Robson
two years ago. But the England manager has to name a squad next Monday for the January 29
friendly in Cairo for which he is likely to be deprived of several World Cup players.
At 24, Walsh is ready to resolve his differences with both club and country and
bring his career to fulfillment. Kenny Dalglish and Graham Taylor, two of the first
Division's more demanding managers, are in no doubt about Walsh's international quality.
Dalglish said: "This was Paul's best game since he move from Luton to Anfield. He
only asked to go on the transfer list because he wasn't getting matches and I'm in no
hurry whatsoever to let him go". "Now he can play himself into the England
squad. It's not for me to pick national sides but to get in with your country you have to
play well for your club and we're so satisfied with him that there's no way I can get back
in the team".
The 44th-minute equaliser Walsh scored against the wind, the slope, the first-half
run of play, and Watford's fierce determination set up a second-half performance by
Liverpool which Taylor described as "championship quality". Watford, with the
strong wind at their backs, caused enough problems to have led by more than the
19th-minute goal which Kenny Jackett swerved beyond Bruce Grobbelaar from 20 yards. But
Walsh began and finished with a rising drive the move which enabled Liverpool to turn
around on level terms.
They proceeded to produce football of exceptional quality with a quagmire of a
surface and were further encouraged in their championship pursuit of Manchester United and
Everton by Ian Rush's second goal in 11 matches. That, too, was a cleverly constructed
goal. But when Walsh made it 3-1 ten minutes later with his fourth goal in three matches,
his 15th in 17 games since he began his comeback before the end of October, it was to the
embarrassment of stand-in centre-half Paul Franklin. But for Grobbelaar's carelessness in
fumbling Worrell Sterling's low cross 60 seconds later, which presented Watford substitute
Jan Lohman with an open goal, Liverpool would be second this morning. Instead they are
third in the First Division a fraction behind neighbours Everton on goal difference.
By Jeff Powell of "Daily Mail".
Copyright - Daily Mail |
