Liverpool High As A Kuyt As Molineux Sees Six

Super Sunday lived up its name today with both games serving up a treat as Dalglish and Ferguson went head to head and Tottenham travelled to Wolves.

The half one kick-off saw the rivalry that is Liverpool and Manchester United, it was dubbed earlier as England's Old Firm and is even more so now that Dalglish is back in charge. Andy Carroll was poised to make his debut from the bench with Suarez picked to play up front with Kuyt. United brought Brown in for the suspended Vidic and Rafael replaced O'Shea at right back. Liverpool started the brighter and troubled United's defence early on. United steadily grew into it and made their first warning with Berbatov hitting the post following his hat-trick against Liverpool at Old Trafford earlier in the season. A touch of brilliance occurred eleven minutes from half-time when Luis Suarez took advantage of United's poor defence by dancing through five of them, he then fizzed the ball along the goal-line and Kuyt was on hand to tap it in. It got worse for United just five minutes later with another defensive calamity; a Liverpool cross looked to have been wasted when it was going straight to Nani. But the Portuguese winger somehow managed to head the ball back towards his own goal where a delighted Kuyt could head home from four yards. Nani was unable to make amends because just before half-time Jamie Carragher went in two-footed on him, Carragher was lucky to escape with a caution and Nani was stretchered off. That ignited the tie and just a minute later Rafael committed the same sort of tackle and was also lucky to escape with a yellow card.

Javier Hernandez was brought on in place of Nani just before half-time but the three pronged attack failed to deliver any meaningful chances. There were a couple of touches from set pieces that caused Meireles to clear off the line but it was looking much like it wasn't going to be United's day. Liverpool rounded the match off 65 minutes into it when Van Der Sar spilled a stinging Gerrard free-kick, Kuyt was there to graciously accept another tap in from all of three yards for his hat-trick. United managed to get a consolation in the depths of injury time with Hernandez heading home from a corner.

The four o'clock kick-off followed with the same amount of drama as Tottenham travelled to Wolves. The games was dedicated to the memory of Dean Richards who sadly passed away last weekend at an early adult age. It was Wolves who broke the deadlock after twenty minutes when Kevin Doyle headed past Gomes who was standing in no man's land. But Spurs equalised ten minutes later when Defoe curled one past Hennessey for his first goal in the league this season. Just like buses, Defoe found a second five minutes later with another curler into the top corner from the edge of the box. But Wolves were awarded a penalty five minutes from half-time when Hutton hauled down Doyle, Hutton was lucky to escape a red when it looked to be a goalscoring opportunity but referee Mark Halsey brandished only a yellow. Doyle stepped up and converted the penalty to equalise. Tottenham regained the lead just three minutes into the second half with Pavlyuchenko providing another great strike past Hennessey. But Wolves deserved at least a point and squandered many chances. Wolves also had a goal disallowed for a foul on Gomes but it looked very tedious as goalkeepers seem untouchable these days. Wolves did, however, find their deserved equaliser with Steven Fletcher heading into the bottom corner to make it 3-3 at full time.