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Torres to return versus Baggies
Last
weekend saw the Reds slip to a surprise last-minute defeat away to
bottom of the table Tottenham, and Liverpool will want to get their
title bid back on track when they face West Brom in the Premier League
on Saturday at Anfield, kick-off at 17:30 hours (GMT).
The
Reds hope to have last season’s top goalscorer back for the league game
on Merseyside. Fernando Torres has been training well during the week
as he enters the final hours of his recovery process from a hamstring
injury he suffered whilst on international duty.
Come Saturday,
Liverpool will be hoping to maintain their excellent recent run of
results versus West Brom. The Merseysiders have won the last nine
league meetings home and away scoring 30 goals while conceding only two.
The
teams last met in the Premier League in the 2005/06 season with the
Reds winning 1-0 at Anfield thanks to a solitary from Peter Crouch. In
the return at the Hawthorns, Robbie Fowler and Djibril Cisse both
scored to give Liverpool a comfortable 2-0 victory.
The Baggies
have not won at Anfield in 41 years, since grabbing a 1-0 victory in
the old First Division back on 22 April, 1967. The teams have met a
total 114 times, with the Reds picking-up 53 wins to WBA’s 28; with a
further 33 games ending in a draw. At Anfield the teams have met 57
teams with the home team collecting 31 wins to the Baggies 9. Liverpool
and West Bromwich Albion have drawn 17 times in the league on
Merseyside.
West Bromwich Albion were formed in 1878 by
workers from Salter’s Spring Works and were one of the founding members
of The Football League in 1888. The club, which has spent the majority
of their existence in the top tier of English football, play their home
games at The Hawthorns, a stadium they have occupied since 1900.
The
Baggies have won the league title once, in 1919/20, and have lifted the
FA Cup, on five occassions. Last season West Brom returned to the
Premier League winning the Championship with 81 points.
West
Brom currently lie second from bottom with 11 points, but a win at
Anfield could see them move up to eighth. All three of WBA’s wins this
season have been by a single goal. The Baggies beat West Ham 3-2 at
home, Middlesbrough 1-0 at the Riverside Stadium and Fulham 1-0 at
home. The two other points have com from draws with Bolton and
Blackburn.
One point from Saturday’s clash would be enough see
Fernando Torres’ team return to the top of the table, as Chelsea face
Blackburn at Ewood Park on Sunday.
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