Football: Torres tops goal drought
A hat-trick from Maxi Rodriguez helped sixth-placed Liverpool to a thorough 5-0 victory above League Cup winners Birmingham City.Kenny Dalglishs Reds dominated all through and went into the future inwards the sixth report on, after Rodriguez converted behind visiting warder Ben forward had disastrous to keep keep of Jay Spearings shot.Dutch ahead Dirk Kuyt moreover scored a spring back to brew it 2-0, earlier Rodriguez grabbed a back with a close-range volley.The 30-year-old accomplished his treble with a well-struck left-footed shot, otherwise past Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole accomplished the scoring with his primary EPL goal representing the bludgeon now the last moments because Liverpool stopped up to in three points of Spurs, having played solitary supplementary match.Sunderland enthused back into the top-10 with recording a leading three-point haul since January 22 with a 4-2 defeat of strugglers Wigan nimble.Wigan went ahead of time through Mohamed Diame on the establishment of the following partly, but Steve Bruces team came deafening back through goals from Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan and juvenile England midfielder Jordan Henderson.