Suarez turns on the style, but Liverpool struggle.
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January could have gone better for Liverpool after a 3-0 thumping from Leicester, and the dropping of two points to Aston Villa, but for Liverpool fans that would have nothing on this month, despite gaining nine points from a possible twelve in the Premier League.
This month marked the clubs first game back in the knockout stages against Schalke, but what it also marked was the day Manchester United scraped another late victory against the Reds.
But firstly, the month started off well, at Anfield when Tottenham came to town. The reds were up 1-0 within six minutes of the game after Vlad Chiriches put the ball into his own net, which spelt delight for Liverpool fans. Not so long after, Raheem Sterling scored the second goal of the game when a Luis Suarez shot was parried out by Hugo Lloris, leaving the empty net on show for the winger.
Paulinho scored a freekick just before half time was upon us, and the nerves started to creep in for Liverpool fans late on, despite having full control. Luis Suarez though, scored in the 80th minute to leave the Liverpool fans with something to shout about long into the night.
Next up though was the Manchester united game, and it wouldn't end a very happy match for the fans of Liverpool. The match itself was very exciting, and left the neutrals with something to speak about but the rivalry of the North West will battle on, especially after this.
Nani, scored Manchester United first goal early on in the game after just ten minutes. However, it did not take long for Liverpool to equalize as a cross from Sterling found Lazar Markovic open at the back post and the Serb had no problem nodding it in to the top corner.
Rooney scored just before the 30th minuted of the game, and then exactly ten minutes later Marouane Fellaini scored a free kick from just outside of the box. Half time was upon us, and Liverpool would not be happy, even if this was at Old Trafford.
A change of tactics saw Liverpool come out fighting in the second half, and it was none other than the unlikeliest person to score, who volleyed an incredible shot into the roof of the net as he, Jack Robinson was left unmarked on the edge of the box.
Liverpool fought and fought, and fought. And finally, they got their reward as Daniel Agger poked the ball into the net after a goal mouth scramble. 3-3.
But, we see it so often. The lucky Manchester United. and believe me when I say, this was lucky. A corner was spun in by Nani but headed out by Agger. It fell to Darren Fletcher who laced it with all the power in his boot, it was going over, but as Subotic went to try and head it away from where he thought it was going, he actually deflected it into the back of his own net, in the 88th minute of the game. Liverpool will not be pleased.
West Ham proved a little test as well, but they couldn't make any sort of mark. Sterling scored early in the second half, and it took another 2 minutes for Luis Suarez to net the winner. After this, Liverpool were no where near as good, and Zarate managed to pull one back, which really did nothing to damage the reds, but had the hammers got another, my god that'd have stung their title chances.
It was finally though back to the big time now, and the Liverpool fans, even away were in full voice for this one. Another early goal set Liverpool back five minutes in, but the fans roared on and spurred them on to goal that came from the magician Luis Suarez.
Ádám Szalai, pulled it back into Schalke's favour though on the 60th minute, but Liverpool caught them napping after the celevrations were over, and Fabio Borini scored his sixth goal of the tournament to bring the scores level on aggregate, and give Liverpool another away goal for when Schalke come to visit Anfield.
They drew last time, but the second time Liverpool learnt their mistakes from the previous game and came out on top against a QPR side battling for survival near the other end of the table. It wasn't the most dominant game we have seen from Liverpool, and they did struggle at times, but they got the job done, thanks to another goal from Luis Suarez.