{"id":852,"date":"2009-03-23T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2009\/03\/23\/liverpool-score-five-to-close-the-gap\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:01:14","slug":"liverpool-score-five-to-close-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2009\/03\/liverpool-score-five-to-close-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVERPOOL SCORE FIVE TO CLOSE THE GAP"},"content":{"rendered":"
Liverpool closed the gap to league leaders Man Utd to just one point with a crushing 5-0 defeat of Martin O’Neills Aston Villa at Anfield.<\/p>\n
Without playing at their very best Liverpool ran out easy winners in the end.<\/p>\n
Kuyt scored the opener after a Gerrard free-kick rebounded to him off the crossbar to rifle home on seven minutes.<\/p>\n
Albert Riera latched onto another long punt by Riera to slam home the second.<\/p>\n
Gerrard then converted the penalty after Rio-Coker took down Riera in the box.<\/p>\n
So three-nil at half time and all is well at Anfield.<\/p>\n
The second-half started well for the reds as Gerrard put a slide-rule shot into the corner of the goal to make it four.<\/p>\n
After a rare Torres run into the box, where he was felled by keeper Brad Friedal to earn Liverpool another penalty and a harsh sending-off of the Villa keeper, Gerrard dispatched his second penalty to earn an emphatic 5-0 victory at Anfield.<\/p>\n
So we are now just a point behind the hated Mancs even though they have a game in hand, I still feel we can catch them to win our first League title in nineteen years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liverpool closed the gap to league leaders Man Utd to just one point with a crushing 5-0 defeat of Martin O’Neills Aston Villa at Anfield. Without playing at their very best Liverpool ran out easy winners in the end. Kuyt scored the opener after a Gerrard free-kick rebounded to him off the crossbar to rifle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[344,212,180,193],"yoast_head":"\n