English Premier League: Jamie Mackie completes QPR comeback

SCOTLAND international striker Jamie Mackie scored in injury time at the end of the game as Premier League strugglers Queens Park Rangers stunned Liverpool in a 3-2 win.

Kenny Dalglish’s men led 2-0 with under 20 minutes to play before the London club staged a remarkable comeback.

Liverpool opened the scoring ten minutes into the second half when Sebastian Coates scored a stunning scissor kick from close range. And they doubled their advantage in the 72nd minute when Dirk Kuyt – playing his 200th game for the Anfield club last night – struck into the bottom left-hand corner of the goal after the ball had come back off the post following a shot from Luis Suarez. At that point it looked like only a miracle would rescue Mark Hughes’s side, but that’s exactly what transpired.

Five minutes after Kuyt’s goal, Shaun Derry got one back for QPR after he headed in from close range. Then, with just five minutes remaining, former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse delivered a telling header of his own into the back of the net.

And there was to be one more sting in the tale for Dalglish’s side when Mackie completed the job for QPR when he grabbed an unlikely winner one minute into injury time. Loftus Road erupted when the striker latched onto a Luke Young header and slotted home a potentially precious goal.

Elsewhere in the Premier League last night, Rafael van der Vaart scored a 93rd-minute equaliser as Tottenham Hotspur avoided a fourth successive league defeat with a 1-1 draw but failed to get their Champions League challenge back on track.

Cameron Jerome looked to have snatched a shock victory for Stoke – as football returned to White Hart Lane just four days after Fabrice Muamba’s horrifying collapse there – when he poked home from close range. But Van der Vaart snatched a point for Spurs when he combined with Gareth Bale, glancing home the Welshman’s pin-point cross.

At Goodison Park, Everton went down to a 1-0 defeat to Arsenal. The Gunners made a strong start to the game and went in front in the eighth minute when Thomas Vermaelen converted Robin van Persie’s corner.

The win further highlighted the resurgence of Arsene Wenger’s side in recent weeks as they moved into third in the table, ahead of Spurs.