Papiss Demba Cisse scored 2 goals as Newcastle inflicted fresh
Premier League misery upon 10-man Liverpool with a 2-0 victory at St
James' Park on Sunday.
The Senegal striker made it seven goals in as many Premier League games
for Newcastle with a 19th minute header and a close range-finish just
shy of the hour mark to boost their challenge for a Champions League
place.Liverpool were reduced to 10 men with eight minutes remaining as
goalkeeper Pepe Reina was sent off after he appeared to headbutt
Newcastle's James Perch.
By then Liverpool had used all their substitutes, so full-back Jose
Enrique, one of several former Newcastle players in the visitors' team,
had to go between the posts.
The result condemned Liverpool to a sixth defeat in seven league matches
and left them in eighth place, one position below Merseyside rivals
Everton – and 11 points adrift of Newcastle.
Cisse's dislay was in marked contrast to that of Andy Carroll, the
former Newcastle striker signed by Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish for
£35 million in January last year.
Carroll, who has scored only five league goals since arriving at
Anfield, was booked for diving when, with the game still goalless, he
went to ground after rounding Magpies' keeper Tim Krul rather than shoot
at his old home ground.
Victory left Newcastle in sixth place but level on points with Chelsea
(fifth) and just two behind Tottenham Hotspur, currently occuping the
fourth and final Champions League place on offer to English clubs.
