Young Boys 3-5 Liverpool: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 20 September 2012

Result

Young Boys 3-5 Liverpool

Europa League · Thursday 20 September 2012, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

Young Boys · Liverpool · Europa League predictions

Young Boys 3-5 Liverpool: match report

Young Boys lost to Liverpool 3-5 in the Europa League on Thursday 20 September 2012. The half-time score was 1-2.

Young Boys's goals came from Raphaël Nuzzolo (38'), Juhani Ojala (53') and Gonzalo Eulogio Zarate (63'). Liverpool scored through an own goal by Juhani Ojala (4'), A. Wisdom (40'), Sebastián Coates (67'), J. Shelvey (76') and J. Shelvey (88').

Discipline: Young Boys received 4 yellow cards; Liverpool received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Young Boys were 12th on 10 points from 6 and Liverpool 10th on 10 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Own goal · Juhani OjalaLiverpool · 0-1
  • 17'Yellow card · Mario RaimondiYoung Boys
  • 38'Goal · Raphaël NuzzoloYoung Boys · 1-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Raphaël NuzzoloYoung Boys
  • 40'Goal · A. WisdomLiverpool · 1-2
  • 53'Goal · Juhani OjalaYoung Boys · 2-2
  • 63'Goal · Gonzalo Eulogio ZarateYoung Boys · 3-2
  • 67'Goal · Sebastián CoatesLiverpool · 3-3
  • 76'Goal · J. ShelveyLiverpool · 3-4
  • 80'Yellow card · Dusan VeskovacYoung Boys
  • 82'Yellow card · Fabio BoriniLiverpool
  • 85'Yellow card · Raúl BobadillaYoung Boys
  • 88'Goal · J. ShelveyLiverpool · 3-5

Team news

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

Marco Wölfli, J. Ojala, Christoph Spycher, Dušan Veškovac, Scott Sutter, Alexander Farnerud, Elsad Zverotić, Mario Raimondi, Raúl Bobadilla, Gonzalo Eulogio Zarate, Raphael Nuzzolo

Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)

Brad Jones, José Enrique, Sebastián Coates, Jamie Carragher, Andre Wisdom, Dani Pacheco, Jordan Henderson, Stewart Downing, Suso, Oussama Assaidi, Nuri Şahin