Southampton leapfrog Liverpool with 2-1 win
Saturday, 13 December 2003 17:59Southampton produced a remarkable victory at Anfield against a desperately poor Liverpool to leapfrog Gerard Houllier's men in the Premiership table.
Brett Ormerod scored for the Saints after just 72 seconds, and they doubled that lead on 64 minutes through a Michael Svensson header. Even a late rally and an even later Emile Heskey goal failed to get Liverpool back into the game.
That should have been it, but Liverpool poured forward and Otsemobor raced into the box to force Niemi into a flying save. The Finland keeper then had to plunge to his right to turn away a 74th-minute Gerrard drive, and when the ball spun out Heskey was there to stab it into an empty net.
Danny Higginbotham then hacked a goalbound Pongolle effort off the line on 79 minutes. Two minutes later Beattie limped off to be replaced by Agustin Delgado. Niemi then saved a Heskey header from Gerrard's cross.
Filed by Barry J Whyte
