Like Barclays Premier League Liverpool opened their Champions League campaign in unconvincing fashion. Liverpool narrowly win over Hungarian champions Debrecen.

According to BBC report It was the high point of a low-key performance but manager Rafael Benitez will simply be relieved that Liverpool achieved their main target of making a victorious start in Group E.

Dirk Kuyt’s goal in first-half stoppage time settled an undistinguished encounter played out in a strangely subdued Anfield atmosphere. Kuyt swept home the winner after Debrecen keeper Vukasin Poleksic failed to hold a low shot from Fernando Torres.

Liverpool deserved to clinch the three points for a period of sustained pressure that ended with Kuyt’s goal but Debrecen, the first Hungarian side in the group phase of the Champions League for 14 years, stuck gamely to their task and provided the odd anxious moment for the Kop.

In the end, it was Liverpool’s 100th victory in this competition in both its guises, the European Cup and the Champions League, and came in Benitez’s 300th game in charge at Anfield. It was an occasion unworthy of such milestones.

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