| Kenny Dalglish is backing Liverpool to get their 2008-09 Barclays Premier League campaign off to a flier. | |
| The Reds legend believes Rafael Benitez's side have been handed a decent start to the new season and feels that maximum points from their opening three matches of the league campaign would lay down a marker of their intent to make a sustained bid for the title. "I don't think that the fixture computer likes Liverpool too much, does it? Because we're looking forward to an opening day of the season away from home for the fifth year in succession," Dalglish told LFC Magazine. "We've drawn three of them and won one so we've got a decent record in the curtain-raiser. "We've been hampered in the past by the Champions League and a need to make the group stages, forcing an eye off the ball in the Premier League. "This year, I don't think that's the case because the first leg of the European Cup game is the midweek before the season starts. "Roy Keane's got a bit of money to spend this summer, and depending on how well and how wisely he spends it, will maybe decide how easy or otherwise the trip to the north east is." The Reds will follow up their trip to Sunderland with a home clash with Middlesbrough and Dalglish is confident they will triumph against Gareth Southgate's men before facing what appears to be their biggest test of the month away to Aston Villa. "Middlesbrough at home is a game that should provide us with three good home points," he said. "They put up a decent fight here last year, but we should always be too good for those kind of teams. "If you have league ambitions, then these are the types of games you need to win. "In fact, you can say that about the whole month of August. It's finished off with Villa away and that's the toughest game of the opening three. "They ended the season really well under Martin O'Neill, and will maybe want some revenge for the last minute defeat in last season's curtain raiser. "There won't be too many teams that go there and win. We need to be one of them." | |
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