Liverpool secured second place in the Premier League after cruising to a 3-1 victory over Tottenham at Anfield. More
85' Gerrard comes off, and Sammy Hyypia runs on for a final appearance at Anfield! Huge cheers from the crowd for the Reds' stalwart.
84' Liverpool free kick on the edge of the box, and Gerrard fancies it.... he NAILS the shot but it goes JUST WIDE!!!
82' Gerrard plays Benayoun through - AND IT'S ANOTHER ONE FOR LIVERPOOL! The Israeli left-foots the ball to Gomes's side, and though the Spurs keeper gets a hand to it there's enough juice on the ball to get it over the line!!!
79' Darren Bent and David N'gog both come on as subs, with Liverpool's 50-goal hero Torres coming off.
77' GOAL FOR SPURS!!! AND IT'S ROBBIE KEANE OF ALL PEOPLE! The former Liverpool man beats the offside trap and ends up 20 yards clear in on Reina. He has all the time in the world, takes it calmly, and curls the ball round the keeper.
74' Gerrard moves in to space and is free to shoot on the edge of the box... he MUST score, surely - but no! The skipper puts it wide in a situation where you'd have wagered the family pet on him burying it in the back of the net! Unbelievable!
70' Defoe comes off early and it's Roman Pavlycucucheknkoo who comes on in his stead.
67' Liverpool have hit overdrive - now Alonso fires in a cracking 25 yarder that Gomes does well to tip over the bar!
67' Steven Gerrard breaks free into the box, but comes to the line and has to shoot at a tight angle... and it's off the far post! Great effort by the Reds' skipper!
66' Goalscorer Kuyt comes off, and Riera comes on in his place.
64' LIVERPOOL SCORE AGAIN! The build up of pressure is too much for the Spurs defence, and Dirk Kuyt's shot through the goal area clatters off Hutton and past Gomes.
58' Gareth Bale takes the free kick - and it's a thundering shot that is hit beautifully, waist high and draws a great save from Reina.
49' Gerrard comes down the left and puts a good ball in for Torres, but Ledley King makes a goal-saving tackle to deny the Spaniard a second!
46' The second half gets under way at Anfield.
45' The end of the half comes, and it's been interesting rather than thrilling so far - despite the fact that both sides are potentially playing for something. Liverpool have been well worth their goal lead, while Spurs really have some work to do at half time to figure out a way back in to this. We'll be back for the second half, but in the mean time why not check out the scores from around the grounds.
38' Jenas comes off with that injury clearly not getting any better - and David Bentley comes on to take his place.
31' GOAL FOR TORRES!!!! Kuyt puts in a lovely cross from the right - under absolutely no defensive pressure, it must be said - and finds an unmarked Fernando Torres on the far side of the six yard box. The Spanish hitman doesn't miss those - and that's his 50th goal for Liverpool!
28' Jenas is injured - it looks bad, and he'll probably have to come off, though for the moment he's hobbling along.
22' Having made the crack about Reina having nothing to do, suddenly Spurs get their first shot on goal - and it's Assou-Ekotto, unleashing a reasonable effort aimed well at the bottom left corner. Reina actually spills the ball, but there's nobody following up and the keeper recovers.
5' Liverpool win a corner, and Mascherano nods down for Benayoun who attempts a bicycle kick from the edge of the six-yard box, but he can't connect.
2' Gerrard has a dip from around 25 yards to get things going - and the ball flies onto the roof of the net! Good start here from the home side.
1' The match gets under way and it's the hosts who have the better start.
- The title race might be over, but Liverpool need to keep their wits about them today if they want to hang on to their hard-earned second spot in the lead: a big win for Chelsea at Sunderland and a loss for the Reds today could yet see them slip to third.| Liverpool | Stats | Tottenham Hotspur |
|---|---|---|
| 53% | Possession | 46% |
| 19 | Shots | 8 |
| 3 | Shots on target | 4 |
| 0 | Saves | 0 |
| 9 | Corners | 2 |
| 5 | Fouls | 15 |
| 0 | Offsides | 0 |
| 0 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
| 22 | Tackles | 21 |
| 412 | Accurate passes | 335 |
| 67 | Bad passes | 52 |
| G | S | SoT | F | FW | O | A | AP | BP | T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Jose Reina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 37 | Martin Skrtel | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Fabio Aurelio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 15 | 2 |
| 23 | Jamie Carragher | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Daniel Agger | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | Steven Gerrard | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 0 |
| 14 | Xabi Alonso | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 17 | 5 |
| 20 | Javier Mascherano | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 6 | 5 |
| 15 | Yossi Benayoun | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7 | 1 |
| 9 | Fernando Torres | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | Dirk Kuyt | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | Lucas Leiva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Albert Riera | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | Philipp Degen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Sami Hyypia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | David Ngog | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Diego Cavalieri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Emiliano Insua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | S | SoT | F | FW | O | A | AP | BP | T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heurelho Gomes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | Vedran Corluka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 2 |
| 32 | Benoit Assou-Ekotto | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 10 | 5 |
| 2 | Alan Hutton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Gareth Bale | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 3 |
| 26 | Ledley King | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | Jermaine Jenas | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | Didier Zokora | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | Luka Modric | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | Robbie Keane | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 0 |
| 25 | Jermain Defoe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | Chris Gunter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Darren Bent | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Carlo Cudicini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Roman Pavlyuchenko | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | Pascal Chimbonda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | David Bentley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 1 |
| 18 | Fraizer Campbell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
84' Liverpool free kick on the edge of the box, and Gerrard fancies it.... he NAILS the shot but it goes JUST WIDE!!!
82' Gerrard plays Benayoun through - AND IT'S ANOTHER ONE FOR LIVERPOOL! The Israeli left-foots the ball to Gomes's side, and though the Spurs keeper gets a hand to it there's enough juice on the ball to get it over the line!!!
77' GOAL FOR SPURS!!! AND IT'S ROBBIE KEANE OF ALL PEOPLE! The former Liverpool man beats the offside trap and ends up 20 yards clear in on Reina. He has all the time in the world, takes it calmly, and curls the ball round the keeper.
74' Gerrard moves in to space and is free to shoot on the edge of the box... he MUST score, surely - but no! The skipper puts it wide in a situation where you'd have wagered the family pet on him burying it in the back of the net! Unbelievable!
67' Liverpool have hit overdrive - now Alonso fires in a cracking 25 yarder that Gomes does well to tip over the bar!
67' Steven Gerrard breaks free into the box, but comes to the line and has to shoot at a tight angle... and it's off the far post! Great effort by the Reds' skipper!
64' LIVERPOOL SCORE AGAIN! The build up of pressure is too much for the Spurs defence, and Dirk Kuyt's shot through the goal area clatters off Hutton and past Gomes.
58' Gareth Bale takes the free kick - and it's a thundering shot that is hit beautifully, waist high and draws a great save from Reina.
49' Gerrard comes down the left and puts a good ball in for Torres, but Ledley King makes a goal-saving tackle to deny the Spaniard a second!
31' GOAL FOR TORRES!!!! Kuyt puts in a lovely cross from the right - under absolutely no defensive pressure, it must be said - and finds an unmarked Fernando Torres on the far side of the six yard box. The Spanish hitman doesn't miss those - and that's his 50th goal for Liverpool!
22' Having made the crack about Reina having nothing to do, suddenly Spurs get their first shot on goal - and it's Assou-Ekotto, unleashing a reasonable effort aimed well at the bottom left corner. Reina actually spills the ball, but there's nobody following up and the keeper recovers.
5' Liverpool win a corner, and Mascherano nods down for Benayoun who attempts a bicycle kick from the edge of the six-yard box, but he can't connect.
2' Gerrard has a dip from around 25 yards to get things going - and the ball flies onto the roof of the net! Good start here from the home side.
- The title race might be over, but Liverpool need to keep their wits about them today if they want to hang on to their hard-earned second spot in the lead: a big win for Chelsea at Sunderland and a loss for the Reds today could yet see them slip to third.
LiverpoolManager: Rafael Benitez
Captain: Steven Gerrard
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Tottenham HotspurManager: Harry Redknapp
Captain: Ledley King
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LOOK OUT MANURE JUST 4 POINTS BEHIND YOU -6 MORE GOALS!!!!!! SQUEAKY BUM TIME FOR YOU LOT NEXT SEASON -LIVERPOOL FOREVER!!!! NEVER WALK ALONE -WE LOVE YOU LIVERPOOL!!!

GOOD LUCK TO SAMI WELL DONE LIVERPOOL THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE YNWA

LIverpool Rock!

Liverpool won!

zippy9para, what a complete and utter bigoted, ar*ehole you really are. People like you should be shot, you are the lowest of the low. GET A LIFE. A typical HUN, they are almost as bad as munure scum. And for your information you idiot, 2nd is for losers??? what position are your favorite Chelski?? third YOU D**k. You can't even count you Gorbal c**k. Nae brains and probably a tatoo of walter smith on yir erse, a living room in blue and a picture of Ibrox above yir bed, sad loser!!!

Fernando Torres!!!

THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE WITH 86 PTS YNWA WE WILL WIN THE LEAGUE FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS LIVERPOOL FOR LIFE LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL YNWA

THE BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE WITH 86 PTS YNWA WE WILL WIN THE LEAGUE FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS LIVERPOOL FOR LIFE LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL YNWA

Well done Sami 10 brilliant years from you You will be back soon when we have returned the glory days back to Anfield

bye hypia.

Great season,86 points- would of won it with that for many seasons, the only team with 3 goalscoreres in the top 10, a couple to bolster the squad and a little luck- the next ten years should be interesting (big Sami might be manager then). And all that as only the fifth highest spenders in the league.

WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT MAN UN OR THERE FU.....N TEAM FREGIE WILL BE DEAD BY NEX YEAR
AND I HAVEN'T WATCHED UNTITD ALL SEASON I ONLY WATCH LIVERPOOL GAMES I THINK THE PREMIERSHIP IS A JOKE DESIGHNED TO MAKE MAN UNTD LOOK GOOD WITH ALL THIER MONEY I WATCH SPANISH FOOTBALL LEAST MAN U NITED ARNT THERE

zippy9para - you are obviously a hun @#$%. It's not athen rye. It's Athenry - a town in Ireland. You dope. A few geography and history lessons wouldn't go amiss!
Well done Liverpool. Great season. Thank you Sami for your loyal and professional service. A legend.

zippy9para-that makes chelski 2nd loosers then. YNWA

well done liverpool...
liverpool is the best...
of 2009...

man untd are gonna get beat by fat spanish waiters next week
and thers no divin so you should be gettin religated next season.LOL!

Ooooo Sami Sami,
Sami, Sami, Sami hyypia
In our defensive foursome
He's absolutely awesome
From corners he will score some
It's Sami Hyypia !
9 great years

CHEERS SAMI, WONDERFUL SERVANT TO THE CLUB, YOU WILL BE MISSED, YOU ARE A LEGEND, GOOD LUCK FOR THE FUTURE, HOPE YO SEE YOU BACK IN TWO YEARS.
