Brendan Rodgers plays down Liverpool’s Premier League title chances
As far as everyone but Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is concerned, the Merseyside club are definite contenders to win the most open Premier League title race for years.
Privately, perhaps, Rodgers may share that view although he was certainly giving nothing away publicly after his team chalked up a fourth straight league success with a 3-0 victory at Southampton on Saturday that put them second behind Chelsea.
It was a typically battling and entertaining performance from Liverpool who survived some scares, especially in the first half, against a very effective and fired-up Saints side who could have scored three times before the break.
Adam Lallana, one of nine players in the match included in Roy Hodgson’s latest England squad, hit a post for the home side, Morgan Schneiderlin fired just over and Jay Rodriguez was denied by a great save from Liverpool keeper Simon Mignolet.
In the end though, as they have done so often this season, Liverpool won by a distance.
There are 10 games to go now and we will just see where they take us
Luis Suarez scored his first goal for six games with an opportunistic strike after 16 minutes, Raheem Sterling scored with his first touch in the 58th, soon after coming on as a substitute, and a thunderous stoppage-time penalty from Steven Gerrard wrapped up another emphatic Liverpool victory.