Liverpool 1-2 Young Boys: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 22 November 2012

Result

Liverpool 1-2 Young Boys

Europa League · Thursday 22 November 2012, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Liverpool 1-2 Young Boys: match report

Liverpool were beaten by Young Boys 1-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 22 November 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jonjo Shelvey opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Liverpool's goals came from Jonjo Shelvey (33') and Joe Cole (72'). Young Boys scored through Raúl Bobadilla (52') and Elsad Zverotic (88').

Discipline: Liverpool received 1 yellow card; Young Boys received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Liverpool were 13th on 16 points from 8 and Young Boys 16th on 14 points from 10. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Liverpool lined up in a 4-3-3 and Young Boys in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Liverpool win, 0 draws and 0 for Young Boys.

Going into the match Liverpool's last five read L-W-L-W-D and Young Boys's D-W-L-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 33'Goal · Jonjo ShelveyLiverpool · 1-0
  • 52'Goal · Raúl BobadillaYoung Boys · 1-1
  • 72'Goal · Joe ColeLiverpool · 2-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Nuri SahinLiverpool
  • 88'Goal · Elsad ZveroticYoung Boys · 2-2
  • 89'Yellow card · Elsad ZveroticYoung Boys

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Liverpool 1, draws 0, Young Boys 0.

Team news

Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)

Pepe Reina, Jamie Carragher, Andre Wisdom, Jordan Henderson, Stewart Downing, Suso, Jonjo Shelvey, Oussama Assaidi, Martin Škrtel, Nuri Şahin, Joe Cole

Young Boys line-up (4-2-3-1)

Marco Wölfli, Alain Nef, Dušan Veškovac, Scott Sutter, Jan Lecjaks, Alexander Farnerud, Elsad Zverotić, Christian Schneuwly, Raúl Bobadilla, Gonzalo Eulogio Zarate, Raphael Nuzzolo