Liverpool 5 - 0 Aston Villa

Kuyt opens the floodgates with a powerful volley after the ball rebounds off the bar from an Alonso header..
Riera is fouled in the box by Reo-Coker..Gerrard nets his 1st penalty of the day with a powerful shot into the bottom right corner...
Riera thunderbolts the ball into the goal after recieving a trademark Reina distribution...
HALF-TIME:3-0
Gerrard claims his 2nd goal of the match with a freekick,with a low placed shot in the bottom right corner..
Torres recieves the ball with a fine 1st touch and bursts pass 3 Villa players to be 1-on-1 with the keeper..he nearly dribbles past the keeper,only to be fouled by the keeper...ref shows a straight red to Friedel and awards another penalty..The Captain calmly slots it into the bottom right corner..Gerrard completes his hat-trick and becomes the highest scoring English player in the EPL...all 3 goals were in the bottom right corner and from stopped play...
FULL TIME: 5-0
Man of the Match: Steven Gerrard
Liverpool is now in 2nd place,has a higher goal difference than any other EPL team and are 1 point behind Man Utd (has a game in hand)..