Liverpool against PSV Eindhoven

Babel takes a blow on the leg from Amrabat and he looks injured. Replays show his foot stuck in the turf and he twisted his ankle.

PSV are probing but can't find a way through.

Kuyt chases down a lost cause and makes somethign of it. He drags the ball past the left-back and then falls over as he shapes to make the cross.

Liverpool react by making another change. Gerrard goes off, to a standing ovation, of course, and Babel comes on to face his countrymen.

Too little too late for the visitors I would think but at least they have got a goal.

PSV react by racing forward down the right wing. The cross comes in and Koevermans beats Skrtel to the ball to score from close range. GOAL!!!

That is his 100th goal for Liverpool. And in front of the Kop too. A dream come true for the Liverpool skipper.

Gerrard takes the freekick. Carragher flicks the ball to him and he curls a shot round the end of the wall and into the back of the net. GOAL!!!

Liverpool take this opportunity to make a sunstitution. Lucas comes on for Keane, who goes off to a standing ovation.

Torres races clear of the PSV defence. Marcellis gives chase and brings down the striker for a freekick.

Amrabat backs Arbeloa into the box. He picks out Koevermans with a cut-back but the strikers shot is blocked by Carragher - it did look to be creeping in at the far post.

Lucas is getting ready to join the action for Liverpool.

PSV produce a slick passage of play. The full-back Salcido finds himself in nosebleed territory and crosses for Koevermans at the back post. The striker can't direct his header towards goal.

Gerrard latches onto a cut-back in midfield and attempts a trademark long-range strike; but shanks his shot wide.

Liverpool make a change. Riera goes off and Benayoun joins the action.

Gerrard slides a pass through the PSV defence but Salcido gets there just ahead of Keane and snuffs out the danger.

It looks like there is some activity on the Liverpool bench. Changes are imminent.

A misplaced back pass from Kromkamp allows Torres to break free and race inot the box. As the keeper comes out the striker shoots inches wide of the far post.

...the skipper chips the ball into the box and Keane attempts to glance his header at goal but can't generate the power required.

Arbeloa pushes on from fullback, as he has done all match, and gets fouled. Gerrard stands over the freekick in shooting range...

Koevermans, a striker, finally gets onto the pitch as Wuytens goes off for PSV.

It's that man again, Amrabat, who drives at the Liverpool defence and then fizzes a low shot wide of the post - he is getting closer.

Gerrard fires in a cross/shot from a freekick wide on the left but Isaksson comes off his line to collect the ball unchallenged.

Amrabat picks the ball up in midfield, he beats one player and then shoots wildly from 40-yards. He must be fed up with his team-mates losing possession after he has given them the ball.

Gerrard disects the entire PSV side with one great pass to Torres, who beats his defender, beats the keeper and then stands on the ball and falls over. At least his knee seems to be okay.

The Liverpool No.9 is back on his feet and the Kop breathes a sigh of relief.

Torres is down injured and Liverpool put the ball out so he can get treatment. He took a blow to the knee from Salcido.

Pieters attempts an Alonso-esque cross-field pass but he doesn't have the same quality and Liverpool win possession.

Simons blocks a shot form Torres. Amrabat rides two tough challenges and wins a corner for PSV.

Kuyt runs down a blind alley but then does well to win a free-kick by the corner flag. Gerrard plays it in an Isaksson punches clear.

Amrabat flicks the ball past Arbeloa and then gets called for a foul, harshly, as the duo tussle and race for the ball.

Bakkal gets into the game early in the second-half and fires a warning shot across the front of the Liverpool goal.

PSV have made a chnage for the second-half. Pieters is on for Brechet. A like for like change.

Liverpool are in cruise control and I would expect to see some of the big name players coming off early in the second-half as Benitez rests his stars.

The half-time whistle blows and brings an end to the misery for PSV.

No change of shape yet from PSV they must be waiting for half-time... then they must surely make an alteration.

PSV are falling to pieces as the Reds' slick passing carves through midfield. Rieira fires in a cross from the left flank but the pace was so quick nobody had got into the box.

A perfect box to box pass from Alonso picks out Keane, who chests the ball and passes to Torres; but the Spanish striker slips and is hustled off the ball by two defenders.

According to the stats Amrabat has already ran 5km and it is not even half-time yet. You can't accuse him of not trying.

Salcido swings in a hopeful cross for PSV but Carragher easily clears the ball, under no pressure at all.

Speaking of Atletico they are now beating Marseille 2-1 and it looks like a goalrush between Madrid and Liverpool to see who will be top of the group at the end of the day.

The Dutch side lost 3-0 at Atletico Madrid in their opening match and it could be more than that here...

The visitors will surely have to put a striker on the pitch now, otherwise it is game over already.

We can all stop talking about when Keane is going to score now. He's done it and put Liverpool 2-0 up against PSV.

Torres uses his pace to get free on the right flank and whips in a cross. Keane waits in the middle and guides the ball into the bottom corner. GOAL!!!

It has been a very comfortable half an hour for Liverpool really.

Torres is left unmarked from the corner and heads at goal, but just wide of the far post. He should have done better there.

Marcellis races wide to make a tackle on Torres, who wins a corner for Liverpool.

The skipper fires in a dipping shot from wide on the right. Isaksson opts to punch clear and the ball drops beyond the waiting Liverpool players.

Gerrard throws himself into a couple of tackles as Liverpool look to regain their dominance.

Mendez takes the ball in midfield and sprays passes from left to right but PSV don't really pose any problems.

Keane is dropping deep to take possession form the midfield but that leaves Torres a little isolated against five defenders. He is chasing aimless passes at the moment.

Alonso tries to score from his own half, as he always seems to these days, but doesn't find the back of the net.

Amrabat takes the ball out of the air with a deft touch and then holds up play until the rest of his plodding team-mates catch up and then lose possession for his team.

In Group D's other match Atletico Madrid are drawing 1-1 with Marseille.

...Keane is on his knees claiming for a penalty but the ref waves play on. It probably was a penalty but if Keane had controlled the ball first time he would not need a pen to get his first goal for Liverpool.

Aurellio plays a great through-ball for Keane, who takes a poor touch in the box and looks to be fouled as he tries to reclaim possession....

Alonso backheels the ball onto a PSV player to win himself a throw in a tight position. Good thinking from the Spaniard.

Amrabat already looks like the only spark in the PSV side.

Amrabat picks the ball up in midfield and beats two players before playing a great pass out wide to Bakkal, who passes the ball straight to Liverpool defender Skrtel.

Amrabat does a million stepovers on the flank and gets himself a yard of spce to deliver a cross. The youngster delivers the ball into the box but there is not one PSV player in it.

Amrabat takes a heavy touch as PSV attack but does well to win a corner. The delivery is a poor one in the lashing rain in Liverpool.

PSV enjoy a small passage of possession but with no recognised striker in the first eleven they have no cutting edge.

Torres works the PSV defence. Kronkamp challenges him on the edge of the box and wins the ball to snuff out any danger.

Keane gets the ball on the edge of the box, the crowd want him to shoot but the striker dinks a cross to the far post where there is no team-mate waiting.

So far Liverpool have been tigerish in the tackle but a little wasteful in possession. They could have further punished PSV.

Great save form Isaksson form torres but he should have done better with Kuyt's shot. He got a hand to the ball. 1-0 Liverpool.

Torres turns Gerrard's near post corner towards goal but the keeper makes a great save. Kuyt pounces on the loose ball and smashes it past Isaksson. GOAL!!!

Gerrard picks out the run of Torres but Salcido sees the danger and concedes a corner.

Former Red Jan Kronkamp takes a throw for PSV. He had such a litttle impact at Anfield that he niether gets booed or cheered.

Torres and Kuyt are already looking to put pressure on PSV's five-man defence but the Dutch hold strong.

Liverpool get the game underway, kicking from right to left, wearing their all red strip. PSV are in all white.

Robbie Keane is still looking for his first goal since his £20million move from Tottenham and many pundits think this will be the night he breaks his duck.

The old Grammar-phone record You'll Never Walk Alone is belting out of the the Anfield PA system and that can mean only one thing: Kick-off is only minutes away.

With last season's top scorer Koevermans on the bench it looks like PSV have come to 'park the bus', to steal a phrase from Mourinho, here at Anfield.

PSV: Isaksson, Kromkamp, Simons, Marcellis, Salcido, Brechet, Mendez, Culina, Bakkal, Amrabat, Wuytens. Subs: Cassio, Rodriguez, Zonneveld, Koevermans, Pieters, Nijland, Dzsudzsak.

Liverpool: Reina, Arbeloa, Skrtel, Carragher, Aurelio, Kuyt, Gerrard, Alonso, Riera, Torres, Keane. Subs: Cavalieri, Dossena, Agger, Benayoun, Babel, Mascherano, Leiva Lucas.

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez recalled Fabio Aurelio at left-back in place of Andrea Dossena for this Champions League group D clash - the only change from the side that won the Merseyside derby at Everton on Saturday.

Gerrard slides a pass through the PSV defence but Salcido gets there just ahead of Keane and snuffs out the danger.

It looks like there is some activity on the Liverpool bench. Changes are imminent.

A misplaced back pass from Kromkamp allows Torres to break free and race inot the box. As the keeper comes out the striker shoots inches wide of the far post.

...the skipper chips the ball into the box and Keane attempts to glance his header at goal but can't generate the power required.

Arbeloa pushes on from fullback, as he has done all match, and gets fouled. Gerrard stands over the freekick in shooting range...

Koevermans, a striker, finally gets onto the pitch as Wuytens goes off for PSV.

It's that man again, Amrabat, who drives at the Liverpool defence and then fizzes a low shot wide of the post - he is getting closer.

Gerrard fires in a cross/shot from a freekick wide on the left but Isaksson comes off his line to collect the ball unchallenged.

Amrabat picks the ball up in midfield, he beats one player and then shoots wildly from 40-yards. He must be fed up with his team-mates losing possession after he has given them the ball.

Gerrard disects the entire PSV side with one great pass to Torres, who beats his defender, beats the keeper and then stands on the ball and falls over. At least his knee seems to be okay.

The Liverpool No.9 is back on his feet and the Kop breathes a sigh of relief.

Torres is down injured and Liverpool put the ball out so he can get treatment. He took a blow to the knee from Salcido.

Pieters attempts an Alonso-esque cross-field pass but he doesn't have the same quality and Liverpool win possession.

Simons blocks a shot form Torres. Amrabat rides two tough challenges and wins a corner for PSV.

Kuyt runs down a blind alley but then does well to win a free-kick by the corner flag. Gerrard plays it in an Isaksson punches clear.

Amrabat flicks the ball past Arbeloa and then gets called for a foul, harshly, as the duo tussle and race for the ball.

Bakkal gets into the game early in the second-half and fires a warning shot across the front of the Liverpool goal.

PSV have made a chnage for the second-half. Pieters is on for Brechet. A like for like change.

Liverpool are in cruise control and I would expect to see some of the big name players coming off early in the second-half as Benitez rests his stars.

The half-time whistle blows and brings an end to the misery for PSV.

No change of shape yet from PSV they must be waiting for half-time... then they must surely make an alteration.

PSV are falling to pieces as the Reds' slick passing carves through midfield. Rieira fires in a cross from the left flank but the pace was so quick nobody had got into the box.

A perfect box to box pass from Alonso picks out Keane, who chests the ball and passes to Torres; but the Spanish striker slips and is hustled off the ball by two defenders.

According to the stats Amrabat has already ran 5km and it is not even half-time yet. You can't accuse him of not trying.

Salcido swings in a hopeful cross for PSV but Carragher easily clears the ball, under no pressure at all.

Speaking of Atletico they are now beating Marseille 2-1 and it looks like a goalrush between Madrid and Liverpool to see who will be top of the group at the end of the day.

The Dutch side lost 3-0 at Atletico Madrid in their opening match and it could be more than that here...

The visitors will surely have to put a striker on the pitch now, otherwise it is game over already.

We can all stop talking about when Keane is going to score now. He's done it and put Liverpool 2-0 up against PSV.

Torres uses his pace to get free on the right flank and whips in a cross. Keane waits in the middle and guides the ball into the bottom corner. GOAL!!!

It has been a very comfortable half an hour for Liverpool really.

Torres is left unmarked from the corner and heads at goal, but just wide of the far post. He should have done better there.

Marcellis races wide to make a tackle on Torres, who wins a corner for Liverpool.

The skipper fires in a dipping shot from wide on the right. Isaksson opts to punch clear and the ball drops beyond the waiting Liverpool players.

Gerrard throws himself into a couple of tackles as Liverpool look to regain their dominance.

Mendez takes the ball in midfield and sprays passes from left to right but PSV don't really pose any problems.

Keane is dropping deep to take possession form the midfield but that leaves Torres a little isolated against five defenders. He is chasing aimless passes at the moment.

Alonso tries to score from his own half, as he always seems to these days, but doesn't find the back of the net.

Amrabat takes the ball out of the air with a deft touch and then holds up play until the rest of his plodding team-mates catch up and then lose possession for his team.

In Group D's other match Atletico Madrid are drawing 1-1 with Marseille.

...Keane is on his knees claiming for a penalty but the ref waves play on. It probably was a penalty but if Keane had controlled the ball first time he would not need a pen to get his first goal for Liverpool.

Aurellio plays a great through-ball for Keane, who takes a poor touch in the box and looks to be fouled as he tries to reclaim possession....

Alonso backheels the ball onto a PSV player to win himself a throw in a tight position. Good thinking from the Spaniard.

Amrabat already looks like the only spark in the PSV side.

Amrabat picks the ball up in midfield and beats two players before playing a great pass out wide to Bakkal, who passes the ball straight to Liverpool defender Skrtel.

Amrabat does a million stepovers on the flank and gets himself a yard of spce to deliver a cross. The youngster delivers the ball into the box but there is not one PSV player in it.

Amrabat takes a heavy touch as PSV attack but does well to win a corner. The delivery is a poor one in the lashing rain in Liverpool.

PSV enjoy a small passage of possession but with no recognised striker in the first eleven they have no cutting edge.

Torres works the PSV defence. Kronkamp challenges him on the edge of the box and wins the ball to snuff out any danger.

Keane gets the ball on the edge of the box, the crowd want him to shoot but the striker dinks a cross to the far post where there is no team-mate waiting.

So far Liverpool have been tigerish in the tackle but a little wasteful in possession. They could have further punished PSV.

Great save form Isaksson form torres but he should have done better with Kuyt's shot. He got a hand to the ball. 1-0 Liverpool.

Torres turns Gerrard's near post corner towards goal but the keeper makes a great save. Kuyt pounces on the loose ball and smashes it past Isaksson. GOAL!!!

Gerrard picks out the run of Torres but Salcido sees the danger and concedes a corner.

Former Red Jan Kronkamp takes a throw for PSV. He had such a litttle impact at Anfield that he niether gets booed or cheered.

Torres and Kuyt are already looking to put pressure on PSV's five-man defence but the Dutch hold strong.

Liverpool get the game underway, kicking from right to left, wearing their all red strip. PSV are in all white.

Robbie Keane is still looking for his first goal since his £20million move from Tottenham and many pundits think this will be the night he breaks his duck.

The old Grammar-phone record You'll Never Walk Alone is belting out of the the Anfield PA system and that can mean only one thing: Kick-off is only minutes away.

With last season's top scorer Koevermans on the bench it looks like PSV have come to 'park the bus', to steal a phrase from Mourinho, here at Anfield.

PSV: Isaksson, Kromkamp, Simons, Marcellis, Salcido, Brechet, Mendez, Culina, Bakkal, Amrabat, Wuytens. Subs: Cassio, Rodriguez, Zonneveld, Koevermans, Pieters, Nijland, Dzsudzsak.

Liverpool: Reina, Arbeloa, Skrtel, Carragher, Aurelio, Kuyt, Gerrard, Alonso, Riera, Torres, Keane. Subs: Cavalieri, Dossena, Agger, Benayoun, Babel, Mascherano, Leiva Lucas.

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez recalled Fabio Aurelio at left-back in place of Andrea Dossena for this Champions League group D clash - the only change from the side that won the Merseyside derby at Everton on Saturday.