Liverpool beat neighbours Everton 3-1 for the second time this season, despite having influential captain Steven Gerrard sent off after just 18 minutes. A Phil Neville own goal just before half time opened the scoring and just after the interval Luis Garcia expertly lobbed Richard Wright for 2-0.
Everton pulled one back through Tim Cahill but then had substitute Andy Van Der Meyde sent off for an elbow on Liverpool’s man of the match, Xabi Alonso. Sami Hyypia had the ball in the back of the net not long after, but a strange offside decision disallowed the goal - not that it mattered, with Harry Kewell firing in a wonderful strike from the edge of the box to compound the Blue side of Merseyside’s misery.
Gerrard, sporting ‘08′ on the back of his shirt, along with Beattie, to represent the captial of culture for 2008, was sent off for two yellow cards. The first one was for kicking the ball away and minutes later he slid in on the edge of the box. Definitely a dismissal which could have been avoided.
The match saw 11 cards in total, but most for silly challenges rather than anything malicious.
A great win, made even better by the fact it was done with 10 men after so early, made better still that one of the ugly sisters scored an own goal and better still that it showed that in Alonso we have the two best midfielders in the country.
Premiership
The Hawthorns
18:15 KO
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