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Gerrard hits 23 goals for Liverpool this season as he scores West Ham

15 May 2009

Gerrard against West Ham

Liverpoolâ€™s encounter against West Ham last Saturday produced 2 goals for skipper Steven Gerrard, bringing his tally to 23 in all competitions this season.

Liverpool crushed West Ham by 3 goals to nothing at Upton Park in East London to enrich their hopes of overtaking Manchester United at the top of the table. This sends Liverpool to 111 goals scored in all matches in the 2008/09 football season.

With a nice touch to the right side of the target, Gerrard beat Robert green in post, as he rounded him, and subsequently planted the ball in the net. This followed a perfect delivery from Torresâ€™ boot that set Gerrard forward to offset the offside trap and alarm the Hammers with the first goal of the first half within 76 seconds of the game. Gerrard and Tores have so far started only 12 out of 36 games together this season, one of which worked out wonderfully for them in this game in how they accomplice each other.

Just before the break for the second half, the West Hammersâ€™ Luis Boa suffered a nightmare as he fouled Torres in the box for a welcomed penalty to Liverpool. Gerrard, again, took the shootout but Green stretched to the left post to save the ball. The rebound fell to the right in front of Captain Gerrard which he tapped in to undo the progress of the Hammers in their effort to equalize.

It was a battle for the Hammers to pull one back but not from the last few minutes before James Tomkins final whistle. Green saved a header in the box from Torresâ€™ substitute, Ryan Babel, but the substitute tapped the ball in for the third goal of the match.

Gerrardâ€™s 23 goals puts him in the best of his career at Anfield with two premier league matches remaining. But he has also bagged his 118th Liverpool gool. For many, only a great midfielder, not a striker, can produce such enormous goals.

Written by Sylvester Asare