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Brendan pre-Wigan press

Brendan Rodgers speaks to the press ahead of Saturday's clash at Wigan

Downing heads home for 1-0

Stewart Downing heads home for 1-0 after superb work from Philippe Coutinho

Suarez fires for 2-0

Luis Suarez makes it 2-0 after a superb through ball from Philippe Coutinho

Luis free-kick makes it 3-0

Luis Suarez curls home a free-kick to make it 3-0

Suarez grabs his hat-trick

Luis Suarez grabs his hat-trick as he fires low past Al-Habsi

Brendan's Wigan verdict

Brendan Rodgers on our 4-0 win at Wigan Athletic

Wigan 0-4 LFC: Analysis

Ian St John and Neil Mellor reflect on the 4-0 win at Wigan Athletic

Allen: Suarez is our idol

Joe Allen on the 4-0 win at Wigan and Luis Suarez's hat-trick

Wigan 0-4 LFC: 90 seconds

The Suarez treble and Wigan action in 90 seconds

Wigan 0-4 LFC 11 mins

The Wigan action in 11 minutes

Rodgers post-Wigan press

Brendan Rodgers speaks to the press after our 4-0 win at Wigan

Wigan 0-4 LFC: 90 mins

The full 90 minutes of the brilliant display at Wigan

LFCCTV: Reina v Wigan

Enjoy some of Pepe Reina's best saves during the win at Wigan

The Suarez show

A closer look at Luis Suarez's inspirational display at Wigan on Saturday

Minute By Minute

• 102 Min
  That's all from today's match service on Liverpoolfc.com. Wonderful display by Liverpool. Thanks for following and see you next Sunday for Tottenham at Anfield.
• 101 Min
  @LucasLeiva87: Well done everyone for the good performance. Congratulations to @luis16suarez for his hat-trick.
• 100 Min
  @luis16suarez: Very happy for the win and to have helped the team.
• 99 Min
  Rodgers on today's performance: "There was a real focus and concentration in our game. We've got performance goals that we want to finish the season with and it will give us a real good base going forward."
• 98 Min
  Rodgers on Suarez future: "Of course, we know all players want to play at the top level, but hopefully he can see that for us over the next couple of years. I am very confident we can keep making the strides forward and keep adding quality to our group and eventually we can get there. I don't have any issues with Luis at all on this matter. I sit here with great confidence that he'll stay."
• 97 Min
  Rodgers on Suarez: "For me there is not [a better striker in England]. He is clearly the Player of the Year for myself. He is absolutely incredible. His hunger and desire."
• 96 Min
  @TheKopMagazine: Gotta be honest. Can't get enough #suarez
• 95 Min
  Reaction from Brendan Rodgers coming up.
• 93 Min
  @LuchoGarcia14: Just checked reds score and received many twits of how the travelling the Kop were singing my song again. Cant be more grateful. #ynwa
• 92 Min
  Lucas played more passes than any other Liverpool player today – 66. He was also our most accurate on 92.4 per cent.
• 91 Min
  Wigan had more possession (52.1 per cent) and more shots (14 to 8) but this was comprehensive.
• 90 Min
  It's not ALL about Suarez. Reina today climbed to joint second in the clean sheets table on nine (alongside Begovic, Cech, Mignolet). Joe Hart is on 12.
• 90 Min
  FULL-TIME: A Luis Suarez hat-trick has taken him to the top of the Premier League scoring charts and Liverpool back up to seventh following a vintage performance in Lancashire. Stewart Downing was the other scorer on a day when Coutinho grabbed two assists and Pepe Reina made a string of brilliant saves.
• 88 Min
  Liverpool corner. Downing floats it in towards Agger, the ball then comes to Henderson, who has a header cleared off the line by McCarthy.
• 83 Min
  Wigan have actually had more possession here with 52.6 per cent.
• 82 Min
  Allen could make it five here...stopped in his tracks by a terrific bit of last-ditch defending from substitute Alcarez.
• 80 Min
  Downing centres for Gerrard, who elects to volley first time. Over the bar.
• 77 Min
  Hyypia, Benitez, Dalglish, Rodgers, Gerrard, Enrique, Coutinho and Luis Garcia all having their names sung by a jubilant travelling party.
• 73 Min
  Luis Suarez has executed four shots today - all have hit the target.
• 72 Min
  On any other day, Coutinho would have claimed the man of the match plaudits. Difficult to look past Suarez with a hat-trick, but Reina has also been outstanding.
• 71 Min
  Substitution: J. Henderson for P. Coutinho
• 70 Min
  Agger attempts a sliding pass to Suarez but the ball just goes away from the No.7 inside the box.
• 68 Min
  3 - Luis Suarez has now scored more PL hat-tricks away from home than Alan Shearer (2). Only Owen (5) & Rooney (4) have more. Slick. (Via OptaJoe)
• 67 Min
  Another good save from Reina to stop a close-range header - he's having one of his best games for the Reds.
• 66 Min
  This win will lift Liverpool to seventh, nine points behind Tottenham in fourth. Spurs play Arsenal tomorrow.
• 64 Min
  @Simon_Hughes__ Coutinho is more Pablo Aimar than Vitor Flora. For Liverpool, that's a good thing.
• 62 Min
  Coutinho has his own chant from the LFC fans already. To the tune of 'Feeling hot, hot, hot'.
• 62 Min
  Substitution: C. McManaman for J. Beausejour
• 61 Min
  @carlmarkham: Smell of cordite wafts around DW. It's either from another smoke canister going off or Roberto Martinez quietly self-combusting.
• 60 Min
  The visiting fans are now serenading the vice-captain...they're all dreaming of a team of Carraghers.
• 57 Min
  Suarez looks to collect his fourth of the game as he dribbles through a hapless Wigan defence, but the ball just runs away from him.
• 52 Min
  Substitution: A. Alcaraz for G. Caldwell
• 52 Min
  Substitution: R. Espinoza for F. Di Santo
• 52 Min
  @Linda_Pizzuti: Hat trick!!
• 51 Min
  @JamesPearceEcho: Another brilliant team goal puts LFC out of sight. Driving run from Johnson and Suarez nut-megs Al Habsi to complete his hat-trick.
• 50 Min
  Luis Suarez has scored three PL hat-tricks since the start of last season, a total only Robin van Persie can match. Trebles. (Via OptaJoe)
• 49 Min
  GOAL! Luis Suarez: Johnson plays Suarez one on one and the Uruguayan tucks it past Al Habsi to complete his hat-trick.
• 46 Min
  SECOND HALF: Gerrard and Suarez restart the game.
• 45 Min
  Liverpool out early for the second period. Or are Wigan late?
• 45 Min
  Lucas Leiva has had the most touches for LFC so far – 31. His accuracy of 90.3 per cent is second only to Carragher.
• 45 Min
  Jamie Carragher has consistently been one of LFC's most accurate passers of late. In that first half he made 15 passes with 100 per cent accuracy.
• 45 Min
  @Petermcdowall10: I'd love to find that Wigan fan singing that to Pepe Reina pre-match now, you won't see a better first half GK performance anywhere.
• 45 Min
  @MatthewLumby: Next LFC home game against Spurs will feature two Player of the Season contenders on pitch. Luis Suarez and Stewart Downing.
• 45 Min
  HALF-TIME: Two from Suarez and a header from Downing have been the rewards for a brilliant Liverpool performance. Coutinho has two assists and Reina has made a couple of excellent saves.
• 45 Min
  Reina tips Beausejour's free-kick over the crossbar and that's it for the opening period.
• 45 Min
  First Booking: Lucas Leiva: Fould just outside the box.
• 44 Min
  Two minutes of added time.
• 39 Min
  @LFCZA: Pepe in form tonight. His shot stopping improving to his previous good levels, let's hope he gets back to his greatness.
• 38 Min
  Suarez smacks one from 15 yards, Al Habsi spills but Caldwell just beats Allen to the rebound. It was a lovely ball from Johnson to initiate that attack.
• 36 Min
  Another brilliant save from Reina to thwart Di Santo.
• 35 Min
  And Luis Suarez is now the Premier League's top scorer outright on 20 goals. 27 in all competitions.
• 34 Min
  Suarez had never scored a free-kick for LFC before this season. Now he has five.
• 33 Min
  GOAL! Luis Suarez: And Suarez does it again...via a deflection off the left shoulder of Shaun Maloney and in off the post.
• 32 Min
  Caldwell clatters into Suarez outside the area and Liverpool have a free-kick. Suarez has been practising these at Melwood this week...
• 31 Min
  Wigan players and supporters protest as Reina appears to catch the ball just outside his area. Replays inconclusive but it would have been very harsh.
• 30 Min
  @JamesPearceEcho: Wigan asking for trouble, sitting so deep, backing off and letting Liverpool play. This could be a rout.
• 27 Min
  James McCarthy pings one wide from 25 yards. Wigan look flat after those two Liverpool goals.
• 24 Min
  Chants of 'There's only one Brendan Rodgers' now echoing around the away end.
• 23 Min
  @JBcommentator: Brilliant from Coutinho again...Oliver Twist picking pockets out there at the moment.
• 22 Min
  Suarez has now matched Michael Owen's highest ever total of Premier League goals in a single season.
• 21 Min
  What a save from Pepe Reina, diving acrobatically to stop an Emmerson Boyce volley flying into the roof of his net.
• 20 Min
  Meanwhile, Coutinho has two assists today. He looks so dangerous in the final third.
• 19 Min
  That's 19 league goals for Suarez now this season - the same as Robin van Persie.
• 18 Min
  GOAL! Luis Suarez: Coutinho slides a throughball into the run of Suarez, who takes a touch and passes beyond Ali Al Habsi.
• 15 Min
  Awry backpass from Lucas and Agger is forced to intervene with a sliding tackle to stop Kone going one on one.
• 13 Min
  The Reds surge forward through Coutinho, who finds Allen striding towards the box. The Welshman tries to play it into the stride of the overlapping Gerrard but it's too heavy for the captain.
• 10 Min
  Liverpool's possession in the first 10 minutes: 59.8 per cent.
• 9 Min
  LFC's official statto @ged0407: Stewart Downing's first league goal away from home for LFC.
• 8 Min
  Liverpool just knocking the ball around and keeping possession as the travelling Kop serenade Gerrard and then Suarez.
• 3 Min
  Coutinho floated past Boyce there...looked so easy for him.
• 2 Min
  GOAL! Stewart Downing: Liverpool break after Reina's long ball to Coutinho. The winger shows the kind of footwork you'd expect from a Brazilian to beat Emmerson Boyce and cross for Downing to nod home.
• 1 Min
  Chance within 30 seconds for the hosts as a cross comes in from the right...Arouna Kone is totally unmarked but it's almost as if he is taken by surprise as he fails to make a telling connection.
• 1 Min
  KICK-OFF: Wigan get the game underway after Martin Atkinson blows his whistle.
• -1 Min
  And here is Liverpool Echo journalist @neiljonesecho's pre-match view: The award for worst pre-match playlist has to go to Wigan. There's a rave kicking off in the DW.
• -1 Min
  Wigan have lost only one of their last six PL games against Liverpool after losing seven of the opening nine against them. Upturn. (Via OptaJoe)
• -1 Min
  Press Association reporter @carlmarkham: Andre Wisdom has just fired a wayward shot into the away fans - who are refusing to give the ball back. Jumper-smuggling...
• -1 Min
  Jay Spearing on the scoresheet for Bolton today. The out-on-loan midfielder was joined on the scoresheet by David Ngog.
• -1 Min
  Game of keep-ball now underway – it's Gerrard, Allen, Downing, Coutinho and Suarez versus Lucas, Agger, Enrique, Carragher and Johnson.
• -1 Min
  Achterberg now pumping balls at Reina from the halfway line. Reina is practicing punching them away.
• -1 Min
  The scores among teams around Liverpool in the table: Chelsea have beaten West Brom 1-0; Everton saw off Reading 3-1; Swansea beat Newcastle 1-0.
• -1 Min
  Here come the Liverpool players to warm up, led by skipper Steven Gerrard.
• -1 Min
  Every time Reina goes anywhere near him the man bursts into song.
• -1 Min
  Pepe Reina is getting some banter off a single Wigan fan as he warms up. The Spaniard is laughing as he completes his stretches.
• -1 Min
  John Achterberg is out drilling crosses to substitute goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi. We learned this week that our goalkeeping coach has been ribbing colleague Mike Marsh for looking like the meerkat from the insurance advert.
• -1 Min
  Doesn't look like the best playing surface – the pitch is peppered with bare patches of dirt. Could have an impact in a game between two sides who like to keep the ball on the deck.
• -1 Min
  A mild afternoon here at the DW, where Colin Pascoe has just distributed his cones ahead of the warm up.
• -1 Min
  Second best pies in the Premier League on offer here at the DW. The best? We reckon it's West Brom.
• -1 Min
  Daniel Sturridge not passed fit to play any part at Wigan.
• -1 Min
  And the subs: Gulacsi, Wisdom, Shelvey, Assaidi, Henderson, Coates, Suso.
• -1 Min
  Here is the Liverpool team that starts against Wigan: Reina, Johnson, Enrique, Agger, Carragher, Lucas, Allen, Gerrard, Downing, Coutinho, Suarez.
• -1 Min
  Wigan fan Paul Farrington on how to beat Wigan: "We have a soft defence that is prone to errors, particularly when away teams attack us on the break. We commit too many men forward and then the quickest counter-attacking teams just rip us to shreds on the break."
• -1 Min
  @ThinkingLFC: Those in favour of a winter break in the UK imagine waiting another week and a half for the next Liverpool game.
• -1 Min
  Wigan have conceded 27 goals at home this season - the most in the top flight along with Reading.
• -1 Min
  In the seven fixtures at Wigan the Latics have scored only three times against Liverpool, and have never scored more than once against the Merseysiders in front of their home fans.
• -1 Min
  The Latics' only home win over Liverpool came in March 2010 when Hugo Rodallega scored the only goal.
• -1 Min
  Wigan are playing in the Premier League for the eighth successive season - a longer run than 10 of the current top-flight teams.
• -1 Min
  Here are a few stats on today's opponents...
• -1 Min
  Meanwhile, the Reds have already scored two more league goals than they did in the whole of last season, with 11 games of this campaign remaining.
• -1 Min
  Steven Gerrard's next goal will see him equal Michael Owen's tally of 158 goals for the club.
• -1 Min
  @Skippy_Doo_Daa: Finally a bit of #lfc football this weekend. Seems like ages since they've last been on!
• -1 Min
  ...In a League Cup tie in 1989, Steve Staunton became the first substitute in Liverpool's history to score three goals in a game, a feat only equalled by Steven Gerrard in November 2010 against Napoli.
• -1 Min
  Only one player has scored a hat-trick for Liverpool against Wigan...
• -1 Min
  Liverpool's last victory at Wigan came in September 2007 when substitute Yossi Benayoun scored the only goal.
• -1 Min
  The Uruguayan told Liverpoolfc.com: "I think we've turned in some great performances in the league which have shown the real Liverpool that everyone wants to see, which will serve as the basis for what happens next year. I think the team is developing nicely, the new signings have settled in well, the manager is happy and I think if we carry on in the same vein we could have a very good season next time around."
• -1 Min
  Whatever happens in Liverpool's remaining 11 games, Suarez is confident that foundations have been laid for a successful 2013-14...
• -1 Min
  Luis Suarez is two goals away from becoming the first LFC player to score 20 league goals in a campaign since Fernando Torres five seasons ago.
• -1 Min
  @Petermcdowall10: Double-thermals today - just a creative spin on Jimmy Corkhill's double-denim. Wigan is always cold, even in pre-season.
• -1 Min
  Welcome to today's match centre, providing you with live text updates and in-play Opta stats from Wigan versus Liverpool. This page also features scores from around the Barclays Premier League and an embedded version of LFC TV's matchday show and audio commentary for online subscribers.

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