A landmark goal was scored at the Stadium of Light and although those that keep an eye out for the statistics won't have been surprised that Liverpool scored their 7000th league goal, it came from an unlikely source. No doubt Mohamed Sissoko will look back fondly on the proud day that he scored his first ever goal for Liverpool and his name will join some famous Liverpool names in the history books as scorers of landmark goals.
A list of them is included below and it is likely that Malcolm McVean, who scored Liverpool's first ever league goal, was the only other player whose first league goal has also been consigned to Liverpool's history pages. He scored against Middlesbrough Ironopolis on September 2 1893. The latest player to score his first league goal for Liverpool is Andriy Voronin, although I suspect people might forget that it was the 7001st. (From a Sky Sports perspective, Paul Walsh scored the 5500th away to Manchester United in September 1984).
Liverpool's landmark goalscorers
Goal
Player
Against
Date
Goal 7000
Player : Momo Sissoko
Against Sunderland (a)
Aug 2007
Goal 6000
Player : Jan Molby
Against Derby County (a)
Mar 1991
Goal 5000
Player : Kenny Dalglish
Against Wolves (a)
Mar 1978
Goal 4000
Player : Roger Hunt
Against Sheffield Wednesday (a)
Dec 1962
Goal 3000
Player : Willie Fagan
Against Everton (h)
Dec 1949
Goal 2000
Player : Gordon Hodgson
Against Bury (a)
Dec 1928
Goal 1000
Player : Ronald Orr
Against Sunderland (a)
Apr 1909
Goal 1
Player : Malcolm McVean
Middlesbrough Ironopolis
Sept 1893
