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Steven Gerrard has scored eight goals in 25 Premier League games this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liverpool strengthened their title challenge as a clinical victory over Southampton lifted them into second in the Premier League table.<\/p>\n

Striker Luis Suarez scored his first goal for six games with a low finish from just inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n

Southampton’s Adam Lallana was denied an equaliser by a post before Reds substitute Raheem Sterling made it 2-0.<\/p>\n

The teenager netted with his first touch after Suarez’s cross, and Steven Gerrard added the third with a penalty.<\/p>\n

The spot-kick was awarded after the tireless Suarez, making his 100th Premier League appearance, was hauled down by Jose Fonte deep in stoppage time.<\/p>\n

With Arsenal losing earlier at Stoke<\/a> and Manchester City not playing, Liverpool are now table-topping Chelsea’s closest rivals.<\/p>\n

The Reds head into a two-week break four points behind Jose Mourinho’s leaders with 10 games remaining.<\/p>\n

But they leapfrog Arsenal because of a superior goal difference and, just as importantly, are nine points clear of fifth-placed Tottenham in the race for Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n

Manager Brendan Rodgers will be just as pleased with a clean sheet after his side conceded five goals in their previous two games.<\/p>\n

Liverpool remain unbeaten in the top flight in 2014, with seven wins in nine games.<\/p>\n

They arrived at St Mary’s Stadium having scored in their previous 17 league games, and required just 16 minutes to extend that run to 18.<\/p>\n

The goal came after a powerful run by Daniel Sturridge following a Liverpool throw-in, with Fonte diverting the ball into the path of Suarez, who finished clinically.<\/p>\n

In a game that featured nine players called up for England duty against Denmark, Southampton spent the remainder of the first half testing the visitors’ defence.<\/p>\n

Lallana was denied by a post after the Reds had failed to deal with Jay Rodriguez’s looping cross, while French midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin fired narrowly over with a shot on the turn.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez was then left frustrated by Simon Mignolet’s diving save before Sterling put the game beyond the hosts 80 seconds after replacing Philippe Coutinho.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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