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Liverpool team news leaked? Roma tweet in response to 'starting XI'
ROMA showed their funny side ahead of their Champions League clash with Liverpool tonight after a fake team was ‘leaked’ online.
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Liverpool play in Rome carrying a 5-2 lead from their Champions League semi-final first leg.
The match kicks off at 7.45pm, with the teams expected to be announced around 80 minutes ahead of kick off.
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But Roma joked that they had already seen the Liverpool side ahead of the announcement.
A Reds fan account - LFC Transfer Room - tweeted a joke ‘leaked team’ for tonight’s game that included some of the big Anfield flops down the years.
Roma joked about Liverpool's leaked fake team news
������ This is how we think #LFC will line up tonight for #RomaLFC ������ pic.twitter.com/UhWAqxfFwx
— AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) May 2, 2018
They're on to us. ������ https://t.co/KBZAe1e9h3
— LFC Transfer Room (@LFCTransferRoom) May 2, 2018
They wrote: “Leaked team for tonight - Adam Bogdan; Philipp Degen, Sotiros Kyrgiakos, Tiago Ilori, Paul Konchesky; Christan Poulsen, Bruno Cheyrou, Joe Cole; Milan Jovanovic, Steven Caulker, El-Hadji Diouf.
“Please nobody show this to @ASRomaEN”
And Roma saw the funny side, responding: “This is how we think #LFC will line up tonight for #RomaLFC”
Liverpool fans are in Rome for the semi-final tonight
Liverpool are seeking to progress to the Champions League final
Roma’s French twitter account even got in the act, responding: “Recognition of the return of Bruno C, playing tonight according to our sources.”
Cheyrou, who earned three caps for France, spent four years at Liverpool in the mid-2000s.
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