Liverpool
inflicted on bitter rivals Manchester United their second
defeat in a week with an emphatic 3-1 win over the current
leaders.
For the second time in a week Manchester United missed the chance
to pull away from the chasing pack as they crashed to a heavy
defeat at Liverpool giving Arsenal hope as both club’s
have now played the same number of games and United are only three
points clear of the Gunners.
Liverpool hitman
Dirk Kuyt was United’s
tormentor in chief with his first ever hat-trick for the club
helped, it has to be said, by some sloppy defending from the
visitor’s.
Considering the Reds have had a disappointing season they are
still unbeaten at home against teams from the top half of the table
and a first half brace from Kuyt set them on their way.
The Dutch international opened the scoring on 34 minutes after
good work from Luis Suarez. Five minutes later and it was dream
time at Anfield as Kuyt made it two heading home after some
indecisive defending from Nani.
The half then ended with some tasty tackles from both
Jamie Carragher
and Rodriguez Maxi with Nani the victim.
United were finally condemned to their second league defeat in a
row for the first time in 75 games when their defensive wall parted
allowing Suarez’s free kick to be parried by Edwin van Der Sar and Kuyt slid in
to claim his third.
Liverpool’s Andy Carroll came on with 15 minutes remaining to
make his debut as the home side played out time.
Even a consolation strike in injury time goal from United’s
Javier Hernandez failed to take the gloss off a sparkling
performance from the Merseysiders.
Referee: Phil Dowd
Venue: Anfield
Attendance: 44,753
Liverpool scorers: Kuyt 34,
39, 65
Man Utd scorers: Hernandez 90+2
LIVERPOOL
25 Reina
02 G Johnson
06 Aurelio (Kyrgiakos 24)
23 Carragher (yellow card)
37 Skrtel (yellow card)
04 Meireles (Carroll 74)
08 Gerrard
17 Maxi
21 Lucas
07 Suarez (Cole 89)
18 Kuyt
Substitutes
42 Gulacsi,
16 Kyrgiakos,
10 Cole,
26 Spearing,
28 Poulsen,
09 Carroll,
24 Ngog
MAN UTD
01 Van der Sar (yellow card)
03 Evra
06 Brown
12 Smalling
21 Rafael (yellow card) (O'Shea 76)
11 Giggs
16 Carrick
17 Nani (Hernandez 45+6)
18 Scholes (yellow card) (Fletcher 83)
09 Berbatov
10 Rooney
Substitutes
29 Kuszczak,
20 Fabio Da Silva,
22 O'Shea,
24 Fletcher,
28 Gibson,
14 Hernandez,
26 Obertan
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