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Sunderland 0 Liverpool 2 August 25 2007

Liverpool climbed up to second place after goals from Momo Sissoko and Andriy Voronin earned them a 2-0 away win over Sunderland.

The visitors could have been ahead in the first minute, when Greg Halford's poor backpass was seized upon by Voronin, whose close-range shot was bravely blocked by £9million man Craig Gordon.

But they broke the deadlock on 37 minutes, when Jermaine Pennant and Voronin combined to set up Sissoko, who rattled a low piledriver into the bottom right-hand corner of Gordon's net.

Gordon pulled off a stunning low save to keep Torres' bullet header out of the net on 45 - and went on to deny both Reds frontmen with a string of saves after the break.

He was beaten for the second time on 87, though, when Voronin smashed a low strike home to hint that Liverpool now have a squad capable of a serious title assault