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One of Liverpool's Champions League matches is said to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal.
Europol, the European Union’s criminal investigations bureau, had revealed that a game in Europe's premier club competition that took place in England during the past three to five years.
Earlier today, director Rob Wainwright had refused to disclose the exact match, which is just one of 680 fixtures they believe were suspicious of fixing, due to 'ongoing judicial proceedings'.
But Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet last night alleged that the match in question was the Reds' win in their opening Champions League campaign win over Debrecen VSC on 24 September 2009.
Dirk Kuyt's strike proved the difference in the Group D meeting at Anfield after Vukasin Poleksic had parried a Fernando Torres shot, but it has been claimed that the goalkeeper had planned to conspire with fixers to ensure that the Hungarian minnows would lose the game by three goals.
Liverpool, winners in 2005, crashed out of the competition at the group stage, coincidentally in their return fixture against Debrecen, but there has been no suggestion that anyone at the club was involved in any match-fixing and a spokesman has confirmed they have not been approached by Europol.
Poleksic was later banned by UEFA after he failed to report an approaches by fixers before another of Debrecen's Group D fixtures, this time against Juventus, which his side went on to lose 4-3.
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