Suarez salvages Liverpool draw

LONDON: Luis Suarez rescued a point for Liverpool with a sublime goal that owed nothing to his alleged penchant for diving in a 1-1 draw at home to 10-man Newcastle at Anfield yesterday.
This season the Uruguay striker has been on the receiving end of repeated charges from rival managers that he goes to ground all too easily.
However, Suarez delivered a timely reminder of his skill in the 67th minute at Anfield when he drew Liverpool level after Yohan Cabaye had given Newcastle the lead.
Jonas Gutierrez gave possession away to Jose Enrique, who punted a ball into the Newcastle box.
Suarez brought the ball under control, skipped past Fabricio Coloccini and coolly rounded Magpies goalkeeper Tim Krul in a sweeping solo move.
Coloccini's day got worse when he received a straight red card six minutes from time for a wild challenge on Suarez.
Cabaye put Newcastle in front two minutes before half-time with a superb strike across the face of goal and into the far corner of Brad Jones's net following a cross from Hatem Ben Arfa.
The draw left Newcastle in 10th place while Liverpool climbed into 12th spot, three points behind the Magpies.
Earlier yesterday, Queens Park Rangers and Reading were still both left searching for their first Premier League win of the season after sharing the points in a 1-1 draw at Loftus Road.
However, the result did see QPR at least climb off the bottom of the table, leapfrogging Southampton on goal difference ahead of the Saints' match against West Brom today.
Former QPR defender Kaspars Gorkss opened the scoring for visitors Reading in the 16th minute.
But Djibril Cisse earned QPR a draw with a 66th minute equalizer.
Ten-man Leverkusen beats Fortuna
3-2 to go fourth
In Berlin, 10-man Bayer Leverkusen edged past promoted Fortuna Dusseldorf 3-2 yesterday to leapfrog into fourth place in the Bundesliga and extend their unbeaten run to seven league games.
Leverkusen, who have now won four straight games in all competitions, move to 18 points, two ahead of champions Borussia Dortmund who are fifth after their goalless draw against VfB Stuttgart on Saturday.
Bayern Munich notched their ninth win in 10 games, beating Hamburg SV 3-0 on Saturday to go seven points clear at the top with 27.
Sidney Sam was sent through by Stefan Kiessling to chip in for the lead after a quarter of an hour as Fortuna, who have now lost four league games on the trot, initially boxed themselves in.
They did grab an equalizer through Nando Rafael's deflected header off defender Omer Toprak in the 40th but had only 40 seconds to celebrate as Andre Schuerrle, who had earlier rattled the crossbar, thundered the ball in from six meters to hand Leverkusen back the lead.
The hosts suffered another setback when substitute Simon Rolfes got his marching orders two minutes after coming on in the 66th for a hard tackle from behind on Adam Bodzek.
But they instantly bounced back again with Gonzalo Castro tapping in only a minute later from close range after Daniel Carvajal made the most of a Fortuna mistake to set up his teammate.
Bodzek drilled in from 24 meters out four minutes from time to set up a nervous finale but the visitors, despite scrambling forward, eventually ran out of time.
Schalke 04 slumped to a last-gasp 3-2 defeat against Hoffenheim on Saturday to stay second on 20 along with third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt who drew 1-1 against Greuther Fuerth on Friday.
Leverkusen, who have now won four straight games in all competitions, move to 18 points, two ahead of champions Borussia Dortmund who are fifth after their goalless draw against VfB Stuttgart on Saturday. Bayern Munich notched their ninth win in 10 games, beating Hamburg SV 3-0 on Saturday to go seven points clear at the top with 27.