Liverpool 1-0 Everton
Liverpool have moved five points clear of Everton in the race for 4th place after a 1-0 win in the 207th Merseyside derby. Fernando Torres scored his 28th goal of the season in the game. Liverpool used a 4-2-3-1 formation with Torres as a lone striker with Gerrard behind him. Pepe Reina's clean sheet here means he has now kept 52 clean sheets in his first 100 games for Liverpool setting a new club record.
It wasn't long before the Reds scored, too. It took just 7 minutes. That's how long it took Torres to get Liverpool's 100th goal of the season, the first english club to score 100 goals. The goal came after Xabi Alonso got the ball from Yakubu on the edge of the visitors' box before Dirk Kuyt touch the ball to pass it to Torres. Torres has now scored in six consecutive home games, a club record he shares with Fred Pagnam (1919), Roger Hunt (1964), Ian Rush (1983) and Michael Owen (1999). The second goal very nearly did came six minutes before the break when Gerrard, smashed a 25-yard volley against the post. Man of The Match Sami Hypia
