KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian football chiefs are hoping to inject some Anfield magic into their forward line after recruiting Liverpool great Ian Rush to help solve the country’s goalscoring problems.

The country’s football federation is planning an upheaval of its national team after their embarrassing performance as co-hosts of last year’s Asian Cup. Malaysia suffered humiliating defeats in all three of their group matches and scored only one goal.

As part of the revamp, national team coach B Sathianathan will spend three weeks with English Premier League champions Manchester United, working alongside former Real Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz, Alex Ferguson’s number two.

Khairy Jamaluddin, deputy president of the Football Association of Malaysia, told local media that Malaysia were struggling because of their poor quality strikers.

“Rush will be here in March… we know that our strikers are not doing very well so they should learn from him,” Khairy said. — Reuters