By James Carroll - 16/07/2008 20:52
Liverpool's pre-season preparations continued with a 2-1 victory over FC Lucerne in Switzerland thanks to goals from Lucas Leiva and Andriy Voronin.
The Reds opened the scoring after ten minutes with a well worked goal. 17-year-old Spanish starlet Daniel Pacheco collected the ball on the edge of the box and slipped a fine pass through for Lucas, who stroked it first time past goalkeeper David Zibung. However, Lucerne hit back moments later when Philipp Degen was beaten to a header at the back post and the ball bounced across the face of goal allowing Gavranovic to nod home with new signing Deigo Cavalieri stranded. Liverpool's response was a positive one and, but for some good goalkeeping from Zibung, the Reds could have taken the lead much earlier than they did when Voronin netted a fine goal on 38 minutes. Collecting the ball just outside the box, the much-margined Ukrainian striker clipped a sumptuous chip over the head of Zibung. Voronin was handed a start by Rafa Benitez alongside Pacheco, with the youngster turning out another encouraging display. In midfield, Lucas joined Damien Plessis, Sebastian Leto and Yossi Benayoun. Degen, Jamie Carragher, Daniel Agger and Emiliano Insua made up the back four with a first start for new £3m signing Cavalieri in goal. Benitez made several changes at the break as the likes of Ryan Babel, Sami Hyypia, Martin Skrtel and Stephen Darby entered the fray but the pace of the game slowed considerably. Liverpool continued to look threatening but failed to find a third goal as Dirk Kuyt and Javier Mascherano were given late introductions. The Reds will continue to train in Switzerland ahead of Saturday's match with Polish champions Wisla Krakow.
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