Sunday 12 January 1986 15:05  Watford  -  Liverpool  2 - 3  Cannon League Division One
 
Sunday 12 January 1986 15:05 Cannon League Division One
 
 
"Watford" 2 - 3 "Liverpool"
  (1-1)  
 
GOAL
 Jackett 18, Sterling 86    Walsh 44, 85, Rush 75
 
  1  Tony Coton
  -  Nigel Gibbs
  -  Wilf Rostron
  -  Talbot
  -  Franklin
  -  McClelland
  -  Worrell Sterling
  -  Nigel Callaghan
  -  West
  -  Kenny Jackett
  -  John Barnes

 Subs:
 12  Lohman
    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
 
SUBSTITUTIONS
 Talbot (Lohman ?)    
 
OFFICIALS & BOOKINGS
Referee: Martin Bodenham
 Booked:    Booked:
VENUE   MANAGERS
Vicarage Road (capacity )
Attendance: 16,967
  Graham Taylor (Watford)
Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool)

Official matchday programme  Price: 50 pence

    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".

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