Paul Eaton 01 August 2008 liverpoolfc.tv
Liverpool have been paired with Belgian side Standard Liege in the third qualifying round for this season's Champions League.
The first leg is expected to be played in Belgium on 12/13 August with the return game at Anfield two weeks later. However, Liverpool would advise all supporters not to make travel arrangements until dates and venues have been confirmed. Standard Liege are aiming to qualify for the group stages of the competition for the first time in their history having ended a 25-year wait for their domestic league crown last season. The two teams last met in European competition back in the second round of the Cup Winners Cup campaign of 1965-66 when the Reds ran out 5-2 aggregate winners.
Liverpool have been paired with Belgian side Standard Liege in the third qualifying round for this season's Champions League.
The first leg is expected to be played in Belgium on 12/13 August with the return game at Anfield two weeks later. However, Liverpool would advise all supporters not to make travel arrangements until dates and venues have been confirmed. Standard Liege are aiming to qualify for the group stages of the competition for the first time in their history having ended a 25-year wait for their domestic league crown last season. The two teams last met in European competition back in the second round of the Cup Winners Cup campaign of 1965-66 when the Reds ran out 5-2 aggregate winners.
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The draw in full is as follows:
The draw in full is as follows:
Anorthosis/Rapid Vienna v Olympiakos
Vitoria Guimaraes v IFK Gothenburg/Basel
Shakhtar Donetsk v Domzale/Dinamo Zagreb
Schalke 04 v Atletico Madrid
Aalborg/Modrica v Rangers/Kaunas
Barcelona v Beitar Jerusalem/Wisla Krakow
Levski Sofia v Anderlecht/BATE
Standard Liege v Liverpool
Inter Baku/Partizan v Fenerbahce/MTK Budapest
FC Twente v Arsenal
Spartak Moscow v Drogheda/Dinamo Kiev
Juventus v Tampere/Artmedia
SK Brann/Ventspils v Marseille
Fiorentina v Slavia Prague
Galatasaray v Steaua Bucharest
Panathinaikos/Dinamo
Tbilisi v Sheriff Tiraspol/Sparta Prague
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STANDARD LIEGE IN 13 FACTS
1. Liege is a city in the east of Belgium, with a population of just over 187,000 and used to be famed for its steel-making industry.
2. The city is twinned with Lille in France, Oporto in Portugal, Aachen and Cologne in Germany, Krakow in Poland, Turin in Italy and Rotterdam in Holland.
2. The city is twinned with Lille in France, Oporto in Portugal, Aachen and Cologne in Germany, Krakow in Poland, Turin in Italy and Rotterdam in Holland.
3. Former tennis star Justine Henin, who retired at the age of 25 in May, was born in Liege.
4. Standard Liege have nine Belgian league titles to their name. Last season they won the championship by finishing seven points clear of Brussels giants Anderlecht.
5. The club possess a wealth of young talent, including star player, playmaker and captain Steven Defour, fellow Belgium international Marouane Fellaini, Axel Witsel and Reginal Goreux.
6. Liege won last season's league title, their first for 25 years, after embarking on a 31-game unbeaten run.
7. Former Liege players of significance include former Belgium internationals Eric Gerets, Marc Wilmots, Michel Preud'homme, former Croatia star Robert Prosinecki, the Mpenza brothers Emile and Mbo and Ronny Rosenthal, who left Liege for Liverpool.
8. The team's youth policy led them to set up the Academie Robert Louis-Dreyfus, one of the most highly-rated training academies in Europe, at the cost of 18 million euros in May 2007.
9. Star striker Dieumerci Mbokani scored 19 goals in last season's title-winning campaign. His physical play and strong aerial presence is reminiscent of Didier Drogba. Mbokani is also one of the key members of the DR Congo national team and, at the age of 22, could be a star of the future.
10. Liverpool and Standard Liege met in the 1965-66 European Cup Winners' Cup second round, with Liverpool winning 5-2 on aggregate on the way to a 2-1 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the final.
11) Like Liverpool, Standard Liege are known as ‘The Reds’ because of their home strip.
12) The club was formed in 1900 by a group of the College of Saint-Servais in Liege. The prefix ‘Standard’ came about because French side Standard de Paris was popular at the time.
13) Standard Liege reached the final of the 1982 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup where they played Barcelona at the Nou Camp. Barca won 2-1
12) The club was formed in 1900 by a group of the College of Saint-Servais in Liege. The prefix ‘Standard’ came about because French side Standard de Paris was popular at the time.
13) Standard Liege reached the final of the 1982 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup where they played Barcelona at the Nou Camp. Barca won 2-1
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