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Then the moment fans have been eagerly waiting for arrived with just under 15 minutes left to play as Aquilani was sent on for his Reds debut in place of Kacaniklic.

His first touch was greeted by cheers from fans inside Prenton Park, and the 25-year-old almost released fellow substitute Jordy Brouwer through on goal, but Fulop was quick off his line to gather.

Deployed in a role just off the front two, Aquilani looked assured and composed in possession and gave fans a glimpse of his undoubted ability.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N166160091021-2055.htm

From RAWK:

"A very pleasing 17 or so minutes from him. Showed some nice touches, a good range of (accurate) passing and some strong running. Hardly needed to break sweat but was unsurprisingly a cut above the rest. (Oh, except Pacheco, who was excellent)."

"For those who didn´t see him tonight. He reminds me of a taller, quicker Jamie Redknapp in 1992/3 season. He also reminded me of a midfielder in the Glen Hoddle mould.

Good positional sense, great passer of the ball, did a back heel (a bit like Luis Garcia in that [oops] all came of it) and showed a burst of pace.

He looks a class act."

Liverpoolfc.tv man of the match: Dani Pacheco - Lively throughout and instrumental in everything the Reds did in attack.


Rafa must give pacheco the chance against Arsenal!! and why not already on sunday?

Great to see Liverpool win today, well done lads :-) Aquilani was good i think, he played the last 15 mins but made an ok debut.

pacheco should be in the team ahead of voronin, babel and ngog

some good news at last.

is there any chance to seee aquilani on sunday?

pacheco is a future world player of the year if used right and if he was at barcelona still he would be playing now ( cuz henry is injured ) and everyone would know about him he should be in our first team but rafa hates youngsters and won't use them if there is any other option i also think amoo was very good and eccelston could already be playing in the premier league our youngsters look very good

rafa is like houllier - he has his favourites ...... and lets face it insua is only getting games because aurelio got injured and dossena was a joke (though dossena did get a lot of chances before injury eventually FORCED rafa to give insua a run)

kelly got a go because every other right back was out injured

spearing got a start because our midfield was so short we had no one else

rafa does hold back youngsters - he is destroying their potential by not giving them a run in the team because he would rather play crap like voronin that is clearly not good enough

I'd rather have David Amoo on the bench than Voronin. At least with Amoo you'd have his raw pace and enthusiasm. Voronin offers nothing.

i agree trepie. this is a big problem. i'm not sugesting we should give them all a chance at the same time, but some of them should have alreday got the chance to play...

leeds away in the carling cup would have been a perfect chance for pacheco to get a taste of first team competitive football but he didn't even made it to the bench...