The friendly matches from the World Football Challenge continues with another Major League Soccer vs. English Premier League encounter, as Liverpool FC travel to Canada to take on Toronto FC at Rogers Centre.
Toronto FC comes into this match having improved their league form, coming off a 2-1 win over Colorado Rapids and extending their winning streak to 3 games. Given the fact that the club has played 10 games in just over a month it is expected that Coach Paul Mariner would rest a few of the regular players and give majority of the minutes to the squad players and young academy prospects, this is even more of a possibility due to the season ending injury to team leading scorer Danny Koevermans. A few players that may be expected to get the night off are goalkeeper Milos Kocic and midfielder/captain Torsten Frings, the former has had a heavy workload all season while the latter is injury prone and needs to be saved for meaningful matches. This will be a big game for some of the younger players in the team as well as some of the academy players, as it will give them a platform to show off their skills against top players on a top club.
Liverpool are beginning life under new manager Brendan Rodgers and have named roster of players including midfielder and captain Steven Gerrard, new signing forward Fabio Borini and defender Jamie Carragher amongst others, the two names the club will be without are Uruguayans Luis Suarez and Sebastian Coates who will be representing their nation at the Olympics. Liverpool have one of the strongest fan bases in Canada and will be packing the Rogers Centre on a rare occasion to see their team in person, it will be interesting to see how long some of the star players will play as they are just starting to get into playing shape.
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