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Premiership

Liverpool's wait over

Football

AFP, London
Liverpool followed up last week's League Cup success with a welcome return to winning ways in the Premiership on Saturday, defeating strugglers Bolton 2-0 at Anfield.
They went ahead seconds before half-time after El Hadji Diouf nodded home a Michael Owen cross - from an offside position, according to fuming Bolton players who surrounded referee Graham Barber as the teams went off for the break.
On 67 minutes, the Senegalese striker returned the compliment with a cross that Owen slotted home from close range, clinching Liverpool's first home league win since November.
The result means Liverpool leapfrog over Charlton into sixth in the Premiership, still a disappointingly lowly position for a team leading the title race earlier in the season.
Having slumped to a 2-1 defeat to lowly Birmingham in their last Premiership outing, manager Gerard Houllier said he hoped last weekend's 2-0 League Cup final triumph against Manchester United - which guaranteed at least UEFA Cup football next season -would take the pressure off his side.
However the defeat could have a more dramatic impact on Bolton.
The perennial Premiership relegation-battlers remain fourth from bottom, on equal points with West Ham below them, but have now crucially used up the game in hand they had over the Londoners.
Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier said that a return to a Champions League qualifying spot was the next aim, rejecting the idea that his side would be complacent after their League Cup win.
"The boys answered that themselves. They want to get back into the top four as soon as possible," he said.
Houllier admitted he "feared that the players would get a bit sloppy" after their success last week.
"They were a bit tired but very professional," he added.
And he had caustic words for the
critics of the recently out-of-sorts Owen.
"Like us, Michael is supposed to be in a crisis, but like us, he will survive," said Houllier.
"He made the first for Diouf and was there for the second, I have no problems with him."
Despite his players' anger over the opening goal, Bolton manager Sam Allardyce said he thought it was legitimate.
"I know my players were upset, and there was a suspicion of offside, but I've now seen it on the replay and it was a very good goal," he said.
"The bottom line is that neither side had many opportunities but Liverpool had the quality to take them and we didn't.
"It's no good turning in reasonable performances without any end product. That's why we are fourth from bottom and they are where they are."
The match was the only Premiership fixture on what is otherwise FA Cup quarter-final weekend.
A messy opening saw Liverpool - roundly criticised this season for their caution - starting with just Owen up front.
Bolton themselves had Spanish striker Salva Ballesta ploughing a similarly lonely furrow, backed up by Jamaican Ricardo Gardner and
Frenchman Bernard Mendy.
Youri Djorkaeff was one of the few players to make an early impression, the French World Cup winner popping up in a string of dangerous positions on either wing.
But Liverpool's patience paid off, and they ended the first half leading through Diouf.
Owen got hold of a Riise pass almost on the goal line and chipped to the far post for Diouf to nod in.
Bolton battled furiously in the second half, but Owen's predatory skills paid off.
Diouf took advantage of Charlton's stumble in the box to claim the ball and lay a cross into Owen's path for the striker to score his 20th goal of the season -- and fourth in four games -- from close range.