Soccer Liverpool still out in front

Press, 19 April 1982, Page 17

Soccer Liverpool still out in front

NZPA-Reuter London The English soccer championship favourite. Liverpool, came up with the perfect get-well present for its manager. Bob Paisley, in bed with pleurisy, when it beat West Bromwich, 10, at home on Saturday. But. Paisley’s team, with nine successive wins behind it, also looked decidedly off-colour at times until the Scottish international. Kenny Dalglish, came up with the perfect cure with a superb goal in the sevenieth minute. . With the closest. challengers, Ipswich and Swansea, both winning comfortable at home, there was no change at the top of the table although Tottenham saw its title ambitions evaporate when it was beaten, 2-0. by Manchester United, which stays fourth. Liverpool remains well in front with 72 points from 35 matches, five points in front of 'lpswich and six ahead of Swansea, which has played one match more than the two pace-setters. Ipswich and Swansea both won. 2-0. against Stoke and Manchester City respectively. The West Bromwich goalkeeper. Mark Grew, threatened to throw the championship race wide open when he defied Liverpool with a succession of breath-

taking saves. But he was eventually beaten when Dalglish exchanged passes with his fullback, Alan Kennedy, before curling a sweet shot low into the comer of the net. Ipswich had less trouble breaking down the Stoke defence and took the lead after 37 minutes when the England World Cup hopeful, Paul Mariner, put home a glorious header from a George Burley cross. The Scottish midfielder, John Wark, added the second in the eightyninth minute. The England goal-keeper, Joe Corrigan, was missing from the Manchester City goal at Swansea after his recent embarrassments — he let in nine goals in City's last two matches. But the replacement, Alex Williams, was also out of luck. In the twelfth minute he allowed a speculative 40m shot from Swansea’s full-back, Gary Stanley, to squirm through his fingers and across the line. Bob Latchford put the result beyond doubt when he made the score 2-0 in the thirty-sixth minute. The Tottenham defender, Paul Price, will forever look back in anguish on his side’s defeat by Manchester United which leaves the London club 14 points adrift of Liverpool with just three matches in hand.

Price conceded a needless penalty in the sixty-fifth minute from which Steve Coppell shot United ahead, then blundered badly three minutes from time, allowing the teen-age Scott McGarvey to score his first league goal. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division one.— Arsenal 2, Nottingham Forest 0; Aston Villa 1, Middlesbrough 0; Coventry 1. West Ham 0; Ipswich 2, Stoke 0; Leeds 1, Southampton 3; Liverpool 1, West Bromwich 0; Manchester United 2, Tottenham 0; Notts County 4, Brighton 1; Sunderland 3, Everton 1; Swansea 2, Manchester City 0; Wolverhampton 1. Birmingham 1. Division two.— Blackburn 1, Watford 2; Charlton 1, Rotherham 2; Crystal Palace 4, Oldham th Derby 0, Norwich 2; Grimsbv 3, Chelsea 3; Leicester 3, Cardiff 1; Luton 3, Newcastle 2; Orient 3, Bolton 0; Queens Park Rangers 2, Shrewsbury 1; Sheffield Wednesday 2, Cambridge 1; Wrexham 0. Barnsley 0. Division three.— Brentford 0, Preston 0; Bristol City 0, Swindon 3; Carlisle 2. Millwall 1; Chesterfield 2, Exeter 1; Fulham 4, Bristol Rovers 2; Lincoln 2, Reading 1; Newport 0, Wimbledon 0; Oxford 0, Burnley 0; Plymouth 1, Huddersfield 1; Portsmouth 0, Doncaster 0;

Southend 2, Chester ft Walsall 1, Gillingham 0. Division four.— Aidershot 1, Sheffield United 1; Blackpool 0, Colchester 0; Bournemouth 5. Hartlepool 1; Bury 0, Torquay 1; Crewe 1, Hull 1; Darlington 3. Northampton 0; Halifax 0. Wigan 0; Mansfield 3, Tranmere ft Peterborough 2, Bradford 0; Port Vale 2, Scunthorpe 1; Rochdale 0, Hereford 1. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Premier division.— Airdrieonians 0, Rangers 1; Celtic 4, Dundee 2; Dundee United 0, Hibernian 1: Morton 2, Aberdeen 1; St Mirren 2, Partick 0. Division one— Clydebank 0, Raith 0; Dumbarton 3, Queen of the South 1; Dunfermline 1, St Johnstone 0; Falkirk 1, Motherwell 3; Hearts v. East Stirling postponed to April 27), Kilmarnock 0, Hamilton 0; Queens Park 0, Ayr 0. Division two.- Albion 1, Brechin 2; Berwick 2, Stranraer 0; Clyde 2, Cowdenbeath 0; East Fife 1, Stenhousemuir ft Meadowbank 2, Forfar 5; Montrose 0, Alloa 3; Stirling 3,Arbroath 2. IRISH LEAGUE Bangor 0. Linfield 5; Cliftonville 2, Distillery 2; Coleraine 0, Crusaders 2; Glentoran 2, Ards ft Larne 1, Ballymena 1; Portadown 2, Glenavon 1.