Luis
Suarez scored his second hat-trick at Carrow Road in the space of five
months as Liverpool crushed a sorry Norwich to record their first
Premier League win under Brendan Rodgers.
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Suarez
scored a treble on his last visit to Carrow in April and he took just
67 seconds to open his account in Norfolk this season, scoring from the
edge of the box to make it 1-0.
He then capitalised on a terrible
mistake by Michael Turner to make it 2-0 before laying on Nuri Sahin,
who made it 3-0 just after the break.
The former PSV Eindhoven
forward then took his tally for the season to six when he curled home
from the edge of the box and Steven Gerrard scored Liverpool's fifth
after Steve Morison had pulled one back for Norwich.
Substitute
Grant Holt overpowered his marker to score another consolation for
Norwich with three minutes to go, but there was no doubt who the bossed
the game at the final whistle, as the home fans booed their team off
following a poor display.
A lot had been made of Liverpool's poor
start to the season under Rodgers before today's game, but the
Merseysiders were a class apart at Carrow Road.
Teenage trio
Raheem Sterling, Suso and Andre Wisdom all performed brilliantly and
Sahin proved the perfect foil to Suarez's penetrating runs through the
Norwich defence.
They played with fluency, pace and brutal
finishing that will give Rodgers hope that he can deliver success at
Anfield during his first term in charge.
A Liverpool rout seemed
on the cards from the start. With just over a minute on the clock, Glen
Johnson's through-ball was cleared only as far as Suarez and he drove
home from 18 yards.
Daniel Agger headed over a free-kick as
Liverpool searched for a quick second, but Norwich then stormed forward
through Simeon Jackson, who drew a top-drawer reaction save from Pepe
Reina at his near post.
Sterling then knocked Suarez's pin-point
ball across the box but Norwich cleared just before the unmarked Sahin
could pull the trigger.
Suarez was at the centre of controversy in
the 23rd minute when the Uruguayan raced through after a long ball over
the top and broke in to the box.
Just as the forward was about to
shoot Leon Barnett barged in to back of Uruguayan and brought an elbow
down on his shoulder, but referee Mike Jones waved play on despite the
please of the Reds players, who were infuriated at the decision.
Suarez
was involved in the action again minutes later when he played Gerrard
through with a wonderful 40-yard pass but John Ruddy palmed the
skipper's header away from close range.
Jackson blazed over a good chance to put Norwich back in the game and Suarez made the hosts pay.
Barely
30 seconds after shooting wide while one on one with Ruddy, the
Uruguayan pinched the ball off a lazy Turner, nutmegged the defender and
slotted finished from 12 yards before goading the home supporters in
his celebration.
After seeing his team booed off at half-time, Chris Hughton brought on Holt and the Canaries started playing much better.
Hughton's
team should have pulled one back in the 46th minute when Jackson fired a
cross the box with a volley but the ball cannoned off Robert Snodgrass'
knee and flew over the bar from barely two yards.
Once again
Norwich were made to pay for their miss as Suarez came in off the flank
and unselfishly squared to Sahin, who made it 3-0. Some Norwich fans had
seen enough and left even though the game was only 56 minutes old.
Andrew Surman blazed a terrible shot wide and almost predictably Liverpool went down the other end and scored.
Norwich foolishly stood off Suarez and he curled a brilliant finished wide of the outstretched Ruddy to complete his hat-trick.
The
Canaries restored some pride soon after when Reina spilled Russell
Martin's shot in to the path of Morison and he calmly swept home.
Liverpool
underlined their dominance with little over 20 minutes left when
Sterling took advantage of a slip by Javier Garrido to square for
Gerrard, who scored thanks to a big deflection off Barnett that
wrong-footed Ruddy.
Suarez almost bagged his fourth four minutes
later when he latched on to Gerrard's pass down the left wing, but the
forward could only find the side-netting.
The away fans sung the
names of Suarez and Rodgers in the dying minutes, clearly delighted at
their team's first win of the season.
The home fans, meanwhile, vented their frustration by booing their team off as their winless run under Hughton continued.
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Jumapili, 30 Septemba 2012
Suarez hits hat-trick in rout
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