Irrepressible Luis Suarez scored twice in Liverpool’s 5-0 rout of 10-man Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday that suggested the former aristocrats of English football may have the pizzazz and swagger to end their long wait for a league title.
Champions Manchester United ended a poor run of results with a comfortable 3-0 win at Aston Villa but it was Suarez who made all the headlines.
“Of course it’s a special day, it’s the opening of my museum and I am proud,” the Portugalforward, who has scored 33 goals this season, said.
It occupies the ground floor of a discreet five-storey building, asics gel noosa tri 8 a few hundred meters from the Funchal city centre and with a view of the Atlantic Ocean.
Philippe Coutinho struck the bar but Jordan Henderson added a second five minutes before halftime after Hugo Lloris had palmed away a Suarez shot.
Spurs then capitulated to their worst home defeat in 16 years after Brazil international Paulinho was shown a straight red card for catching Suarez in the chest with a high foot.
Suarez crossed for young defender Jon Flanagan to net his first Liverpool goal, he lifted the ball over an outrushing Lloris to score the fourth and provided the cross for Raheem Sterling to ice the cake with a late fifth.
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Ronaldo, this year’s World Soccer magazine’s player of the year, said he was not desperate to win the most prestigious individual award in the sport.
United received another boost when Scotland international midfielder Darren Fletcher, battling a chronic bowel condition, came off the bench for his first appearance for nearly a year.
Villa, who began brightly but carried little threat once they had fallen behind, have won just one of their last 36 Premier League games against United.
Nathan Dyer scored for SwanseaCity but suffered a suspected fractured right ankle in the 1-1 draw at NorwichCity.
Dyer flicked past John Ruddy on 12 minutes but was carried off on a stretcher late in the first half after a challenge with Sebastien Bassong.
The first piece on display, probably the smallest, asics gel nimbus 14 dates back to when Ronaldo was eight and top-scored in a tournament with his first club Andorinha, Portuguese for swallow.
The next youth trophy misspelled his first name, attributing it to ‘Christiano’, and was half broken, contrasting sharply with the two shiny Golden Boots – won as Europe’s top marksman – and a lifesize wax figure of him in a Portugal shirt dominating the main room.
“It’s hard not to think of it when you are 12-2,” wide receiver Golden Tate told reporters. “It’s tough not to think about it.”
Said Wilson: “I think the biggest thing that we can learn from playing here and getting a win is we’ll just have a great feel for the stadium. We’ve been here before, we were successful here. That’s a positive thing.
“You get good vibes when you come back.”
RARE START
England striker Danny Welbeck made the most of a rare start for Manchester United with a first-half double at Villa as the champions ended a run of four Premier League games without victory.
Welbeck, recalled in place of the injured Robin van Persie, asics gel kayano 18 struck twice in three minutes for United who moved up one spot to eighth, 10 points behind Arsenal.
“We have to wait a couple of days for an X-ray and a scan, and we all cross our fingers to hope it is not that bad,” said Swansea manager Michael Laudrup.
“That will overshadow everything else. It is just a game of football.”
Norwich earned a point thanks to Gary Hooper’s spectacular volley in first-half stoppage time.
Passion for the sport 