"Liverpool will look to build on their impressive Champions League Group A win against Monaco when they travel to Greece to play Olympiakos.

Goals by Djibril Cisse and Milan Baros helped the Reds beat last season's beaten finalists 2-0 at Anfield earlier this month as they erased the memory of the narrow qualifying round win against AK Graz.

They will of course be without club captain Steven Gerrard who is out for at least two months with the foot injury he sustained in the defeat at Manchester United. With a victory already under their belts from their home match against Monaco, the Reds know another three points will leave them odds-on to qualify for the second round which starts in the New Year.

Manager Rafael Benitez is likely to put Stephen Warnock, who did well against Norwich, on the bench with either Salif Diao or Igor Biscan coming into midfield. Olympiakos have started well - They started the season with a 2-1 victory against Kallithea in the first game at their new Georgios Karaiskakis stadium when Ioannis Okkas and Georgios Anatolakis netted. They also welcome back Brazilian stars Rivaldo and Giovanni for this game. This will be a tough one for Liverpool - the loss of Steven gerrard is a huge blow, and with Rivaldo and capacity crowd, I think the Greeks can snatch a narow home win. Nice odds available too - Get on with Olympiakos @ 3.1 with betfair [£20 Free Bet]. "i hate losing to a side whos star players are Phil Neville and Tim Cahill. AJ a new challenger to sit on the throne as king of Goodison, he's now up there with Brett Angel and Stuart Barlow.

Anyone that can accept losing to their inferior rivals/neighbours does not care about their club Would you rathe have a rich history or a poor history? Look around your stadium next week and ask yourselves how many of them fans were there in years gone by. You had 6,000 season ticket holder when Gullit arrived at the club - FACT

Flash in the panTime for Rafa to pick his best eleven and play them for a few games in a row. Choping and changing players means players dont get time to gel. League is gone already i reckon as very difficult to recover from a bad start as i think chelski have not found form yet and there already out of sight. and you look around Anfield and ask yourself how many of those were there from yester year..plastic scousers making that trip up the M1 from Southampton.  I see many familiar faces from old at chelsea.....been going for 20 odd years home and away...thru decent and poor attendances...yeah there are new faces, but success attracts new comers end of... i hazard a guess that that's how you jumped on the glory bandwagon.

 

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Tue Sep 28 2004 Olympiakos v Liverpool TO RUN Tue Sep 28 2004 Man Utd v Fenerbahce TO RUN Tue Sep 28 2004 Bayern Munich v Ajax TO RUN Wed Sep 29 2004 AC Milan v Celtic TO RUN Wed Sep 29 2004 Rosenborg v Arsenal TO RUN Wed Sep 29 2004 Chelsea v FC Porto TO RUN