Double delight for daddy Suarez

If the Liverpool forward could have hand-picked the opponents to end his 161-day Premier League exile, it would have been Sunderland, and that’s not just because they continue to prop up the division.

Two goals on a highly satisfactory top flight return take his tally to seven in six games against the Wearside club who staged an admirable second-half comeback which boasted a deficit-halving goal from Emanuele Giaccherini. Sadly for them though it came in the knowledge that the damage had been done thanks to some woeful defending exploited by marksmen at the top of their game.