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Perhaps the only highlight of the former Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson 's painful reign came last season when his side has 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 rooms in a row over the Trotters. Ho hum. Oh Roy!

Assumed, in fact, Bolton haven 't one point from the Reds since September 2006 when Sam Allardyce alone when Gary Speed ??and Ivan Campo them a 2-0 victory at the Reebok. In addition, they won haven 't a league game at Anfield since 1954. While there, the FA Cup victory over Liverpool 's patch in 1993, at least. Nevertheless, with this kind of track record, a Bolton win today would be a coupon buster. Do people still vouchers?

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

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

Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire)

Kick-off: 5.30pm.

The teams take to the pitch. Liverpool in their all-red strip, Bolton in their white shirts and navy shorts. He won 't last long. "I 'm sorry to say it but I think Liverpool Carroll = bad news for Bolton," says Rob Cobourne. "To say that Dalglish has forgotten about Maxi 's hat-tricks at the end of last season, Henderson could certainly thus making for a game?. 4-1 to Liverpool"

And we 're off! Liverpool get the ball rolling, and they 're come to the Anfield Road end. The ball 's pumping right, where Henderson Suarez is almost one to one with Knight, but the big defender succeeds, of course.

2 min: Liverpool happy she's back for a minute or so to happen, so that all its defenders to touch. It 's just like the 1980s. Sort of.

4 min: Suarez rips the inside-right channel and is awkwardly placed to the ground Reo-Coker. The free kick from 25 meters, it takes just to the right of the D. Adam there, and I have no idea what he was trying to do, the ball clatters straight into the wall. With the aim of getting the ball and perhaps in the lower right corner?

5 min: Liverpool started very strongly. Suarez wins the ball from Steinsson on the left while sitting on his ass, jumped up and almost breaking free on the wing. Adam then hits a pass over to the left to Downing, who reached the ball yet to win a corner. The set piece comes to nothing, but that's a decent opening time for the hosts.

8 min: Petrov wins a corner after twisting and turning Kelly down the left. From it, Liverpool break upfield, Suarez releasing Downing down the inside-right channel. He should tear clear and get a shot on goal, but takes a heavy touch and must settle for a corner. Agger gets a head to Adam's kick from the right, but can't direct it goalwards. Bolton hack out for another corner, which is wasted. This is a bright opening.

11 min: Liverpool still enjoyed the majority of possession, but especially in their own half now. A few times they try to spring us with long balls through the channel, but nothing lasts.

13 min:

Liverpool are pinging it around in pretty triangles, but it's all a bit hectic, and eventually Adam belabours a weighty ball down the left that Suarez has no chance of catching. Their early-game mojo has definitely evaporated. The Uruguay defender Sebastian Coates is in the stands, by the way. He's had his medical, but the Is and Ts on an Anfield contract haven't been dotted and crossed yet.

43 min: Adam rakes a long diagonal ball to Downing down the left. The winger tries to knock it past Steinsson with his first touch, but the full back deliberately handles on the edge of the area. He's booked, but there's no penalty, because the referee - correctly, and brilliantly - spots that the Bolton man's arm and hand were operating outside the area, even though the rest of him was in it! The crowd aren't happy, which you can kind of understand, because that was super-marginal, but that's the way it is. The resulting free kick is a load of nonsense.

46 min: Suarez roast Knight for pace on the right side. Just before he reached the area, Knight managed to awkwardly near Suarez slide by the striker. Suarez then decides to fall in the range shamelessly scream, after a penalty. That 's never happened again. I 'm kind of surprised that he' \ s not the book, but obviously the referee is of the opinion that he simply lost his footing.
[Post-Game Note: see 63 minutes, that's nonsense, I 'ma one-on-eejit Suarez was tap-attack of Knight' s hand]

48 min: From the goal line on the right side, Skrtel sent a low cross into the middle, but the ball is hacked clear Cahill brilliantly. Liverpool are flying off the blocks again.

49 min:

53 min: GOAL!!! Liverpool 3-0 Bolton Wanderers.

A rousing chorus of "Justice for the 96" from the home support.

A wise head ball in the middle of Carroll is almost free Maxi. Cahill is to cover completely, then readjusted, if the ball is worked on Kuyt. Before the striker can get his shot in from the edge of the box, kidnap the ball 's away from him.

88 min: Downing really wants a goal. He 's close to the touchline on the left shoulder last fall, two men and one in the area, before the start of a fierce effort just over the crossbar. He raises both arms in the air as he looks into the sky.

90 min: From left to right, Jose Enrique curls a beauty through the six-box, but none of his Liverpool team-mates are in any kind of position to submit to bid on this goal.