Steven Gerrard has become the latest worrying addition to Liverpool's escalating injury list. The Reds' skipper is out of today's Champions League game in Bordeaux with a hamstring strain picked up during Saturday's draw with Blackburn.

And he joins Daniel Agger, Robbie Fowler and almost certainly Dirk Kuyt as non-starters in France, although Momo Sissoko has been given an 80% chance of shaking off an ankle injury.