Sport 17-10-2001 Lads` Get Well Message To Houllier who: Liverpool what: Beat Dynamo Kiev 1-2 in Champions` League Group B where: Kiev when: Last night snippet: "Liverpool stormed to the top of their Champions League group in Kiev," reports The Evening Standard, "with stand-in boss Phil Thompson declaring: `That was a get well card for Gerard Houllier, he will be very proud and pleased with the players after that`." "With Houllier in a Liverpool hospital recovering from an 11-hour open-heart operation," explains The Sun`s Mike Ellis, his side provided just the tonic by demonstrating "all the guts and character required in the Champions League to grind out a crucial result." Liverpool took the lead against hosts Dynamo Kiev after 43 minutes thanks to Danny Murphy. "It was a terrific goal," writes Matt Lawton in The Telegraph. "Murphy appearing between four Kiev defenders to send home a perfectly placed cross from Gerrard with the first touch of his left foot." But Kiev`s Thiberiu Ghioane equalised after after 59 minutes and it was left to a daring - if a little lucky - individual effort by England midfielder Steven Gerrard to muster the 67th-minute winner. Liverpool now need only to win at home to Borussia Dortmund later this month to go through to the next stage of the tournament, notes Dominic Fifield in The Guardian. "Suddenly, their prospects are as rosy as their shirts." [... more]

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