Liverpool now clear leaders

Press, 13 December 1982, Page 34

Liverpool now clear leaders

NZPA-Reuter ' London The English Football League champions. Liverpool, withstood concerted second half pressure from Watford on Saturday to secure a 3-1 win and stay on top of the first division. • However, the second-placed Manchester United kept pace with an impressive 4-0 triumph over Notts County to remain within three points of the champions in what could again develop into a two-team race for the title. With the European Cup champions. Aston Villa, off duty ■ they were in Tokyo for a World Club Championship clash against Penarol. of Uruguay Notting- | ham Forest climbed two places I to third spot with a 2-1 victory | over Swansea. I With several championship contenders, including West Ham 1 United. Ipswich and Watford. i losing on Saturday. West' i Bromwich Albion seized their • chance by crushing, the bottom I chib. .Sunderland. 3-D to move i into joint fifth place. : West Ham were shocked at ■ home 0-3 by Coventry, while ' Ipswich also lost 0-2 at home to I Everton to end a run which had ; taken them from last place to ; seventh in the table. j Liverpool's England defender. • Phil Thompson, was carried off . with an ankle injury, while ! United's England captain. Bryan ) Robson, limped off nine minutes 1 from time. Both must be doubt--1 ful for England's European I championship clash against Luxemburg at Wembley bn Wednes- ■ day. English League Division one.- Birmingham 0. Southampton 2: Brighton 3. Norwich 0: Ipswich 0. Everton 2: Liverpool 3. Watford 1; Luton 3.

Manchester City 1: Manchester United 4. Notts County 0: Nottingham Forest 2. Swansea 1: Stoke 2. Tottenham 0; West Bromwich 3. Sunderland 0. West Ham 0, Coventry 3. Division two.- Barnsley 2, Carlisle 2; Bolton 4. Charlton 1; Burnley 2. Leicester 4: Crystal Palace 2. Sheffield Wednesday 0; Fulham 2. Derby 1: Middlesbrough 3. Chelsea 1: Newcastle 1. Wolverhampton 1: Oldham 3, Cambridge 0: Queens Park Rangers 4. Grimsby 0: Rotherham 0. Leeds 1; Shrewsbury 0. Blackburn 0. English Football Association Cup Second round.- Altrincham 0. Huddersfield 1; Boston 1. Sheffield United 1; Bristol Rovers 2. Plymouth 2; Cardiff 2. Weymouth 3: Gillingham 1. Northampton 1: Hartlepool 1. York 1; Mansfield 1. Bradford 1: Newport 1. Orient 0: North Shields 0. Walsall 3: Oxford 4. Worthing 0: Peterborough 5. Doncaster 2: Portsmouth 1. Aidershot 3: Preston 2. Blackpool 1; Scunthorpe 2. Norwich 1; Slough 1. Bishops Stortford 4: Southend 3. Yeovil 0: Swindon 2. Brentford 2; Telford 1. Tranmere 1: Torquay 4. Carshalton 1: Worcester 2. Wrexham 1. Scottish League Premier division.- Aberdeen 1. Celtic 2: Dundee United 7. Kilmarnock 0; Hibernian 1. Dundee 1: Rangers 1. Morton 1; .St Mirren 3. Motherwell 0. Division one.— Airdrieonians 3. Falkirk 1; Ayr 1. Dunfermline 0: Clyde 2. Hearts 3; Hamilton 1. Alloa 1; Queens Park 2. Clydebank 2; Raith 2. Partick 2; St Johnstone 1. Dunbarton 0. Division two.— Queen of South 1. East Fife 2. Scottish Foothall Association Cup First round.- Brechin 2. Cowdenbeath 0: Meadowbank 1. Elgin 2; Selkirk 0, Brora Rangers 2. .