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2 min: Liverpool happy to pass it around the back for a minute or so, giving all their defenders a touch. It's just like the 1980s. Sort of.

And we're off! Liverpool set the ball rolling, and they're kicking towards the Anfield Road end. The ball's pumped down the right, where Henderson nearly finds Suarez one on one with Knight, but the big defender manages to clear.

The teams take to the pitch. Liverpool in their all-red strip, Bolton in their white shirts and navy shorts. It won't be long now. "I'm sorry to say it but I think Liverpool-Carroll=bad news for Bolton," opines Rob Cobourne. "Saying that, has Dalglish forgot about Maxi's hat-tricks at the end of last season? Surely Henderson could make way for one match: 4-1 to Liverpool."

Kick off: 5.30pm.

Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire)

Bolton Wanderers unchanged from the side who lost to Manchester City: Jaaskelainen, Steinsson, Cahill, Knight, Robinson, Eagles, Reo-Coker, Muamba, Petrov, Kevin Davies, Klasnic.
Subs: Bogdan, Sanli, Mark Davies, Blake, Pratley, Wheater, Riley.

Liverpool drop the generally misfiring Andy Carroll to the bench: Reina, Kelly, Carragher, Agger, Jose Enrique, Adam, Lucas, Kuyt, Henderson, Downing, Suarez.
Subs: Doni, Carroll, Maxi, Spearing, Shelvey, Skrtel, Robinson.

In fact, Bolton haven't taken a single point off the Reds since September 2006, when Sam Allardyce single-handedly when Gary Speed and Ivan Campo gave them a 2-0 win at the Reebok.! Moreove r, they haven't won a league game at Anfield since 1954. Though there is that FA Cup win on Liverpool's patch in 1993, at least. Even so, with that sort of track record, a Bolton win today would be a coupon buster. Do people still do coupons?

Perhaps the only highlight of former Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson's painful reign last season came when his side did the double over Bolton Wanderers. But even those slim pickings, secured on New Year's Day with a late Joe Cole goal at Anfield, not long before Roy was told to do one, can be put into context: it was Liverpool's fourth double in a row over the Trotters. Ho hum. Oh Roy!


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