Liverpool turned in a great performance on Wednesday with a four goal match from Luis Suarez and the club rebounded from a bad result and now the team will be up against West Ham United on Saturday from Anfield and they will try to climb into the top three in the standings, as they are behind Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal.
Liverpool has as many points as Everton and the Gunners have the lead on the EPL table after their excellent start this season and behind the top five is Tottenham and Newcastle United, while West Ham United is bordering on relegation status. Liverpool needed to rebound after their loss over the weekend and Suarez made sure that happened, scoring the first four goals of the game before Bradley Johnson added one for Norwich City and then Liverpool put in another for good measure. Suarez was particularly impressive, scoring the goals in straight succession and he also had a hat trick in 20 minutes of the match, scoring his second, third and fourth goals between the 15th and 35th minute.
The previous match Liverpool suffered an upset defeat against Hull City and they could only muster one goal from Steven Gerrard to tie that match after Jake Livermore started things off, but that was all they could muster on the day. Some other matches on the EPL schedule for the weekend includes Arsenal and Everton playing the late match on Sunday, while Fulham and Aston Villa will play the first match. Manchester United and Newcastle start things off on Saturday, while Chelsea will be taking on Stoke City, Tottenham plays Sunderland in the late match, while Southampton hosts Manchester City.
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West Ham United fretted over how to stop Liverpool's Luis Suarez from running wild on Saturday after the Uruguayan banged in four goals against Norwich City in midweek.
The Hammers have not won at Anfield since 1963 and Suarez, the league's top scorer with 13 goals in nine appearances since he came back from a 10-match suspension for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic, will fancy his chances of increasing his tally.
Manager Sam Allardyce said starving Suarez of the ball would be the priority.
"If you can't control Luis Suarez, on what you saw the other night against Norwich, it's certainly going to be one where he is rattling the goals in," he told the club website (www.whufc.com) on Friday.
"When you go there on the back of the four goals he scored in a 5-1 win, it makes life even more difficult, but we have to take up the challenge to try to nullify his great talent."
Allardyce, whose side are 17th and three points off the drop zone, travel north after losing 1-0 to struggling Crystal Palace on Tuesday.
They have midfielder Ravel Morrison suspended, after the youngster picked up his fifth booking of the season, while record signing and former Liverpool frontman Andy Carroll has resumed training but is still some way off a return.
"Like everything else, we'll get him back as quick as we possibly can, but my position is to take a sensible view," said Allardyce.
(Reuters)
