Two Goals In Two Minutes Lift Liverpool Over Newcastle

The object of today's game on championship Sunday for Liverpool was to hopefully gain a result over Newcastle United and hope that West Ham United were going to defeat Manchester City. Both teams entered the day with Manchester City at top of the standings with 83 points while Liverpool sat in second place with 81 points so a draw for Manchester City wouldn't do for Liverpool and their title hopes. Newcastle United weren't about to lie down either or make it easy for Liverpool to win. Newcastle were able to find lanes on the counter attacks while Liverpool had a hard time finding a lane towards the net. In the 21ST minute of play, things were about to look ugly for Liverpool when Newcastle's Yoan Gouffran's shot was deflected into the net by Martin Škrtel for an own goal. From that point on Newcastle tried everything in their power to slow down the game as they were purposely wasting time.

Both teams would head into halftime with newcastle up a goal, but you knew that Liverpool's Brendan Rogers was going to make some changes and adjustments. It was his second half substitute Philippe Coutinho who would enter the game in the 60TH minute that made the most impact. He created chances and frustrated the Newcastle defense to the point that they gave up two straight fouls near the box. In the 63RD Minute, Steve Gerard would send the ball into box that found Daniel Agger who kicked it into the back of the net for the equalizer. In the 65TH minute, Gerard would launch another ball into the box that found the foot of Daniel Sturridge for the go ahead goal. Newcastle completely fell apart after the goal seeing not one, but two players get sent off with red cards leaving the team depleted and only with nine men on the pitch. Those two goals were all the team needed anyways for the win, but unfortunately for them, Manchester City won their game making Man City the champions of the Barclays Premier League. The fact that Liverpool made it in second place was nothing to be ashamed about either cause the team went from finishing in seventh last year to second this season.