Liverpool 2-2 Chelsea: Suarez is hero and villain

Liverpool’s Luis Suarez scored a 97th-minute equaliser to rescue a 2-2 draw with Chelsea in a match marked by yet another bizarre incident involving the hosts’ controversial striker.

Scorers: Liverpool - Sturridge (52), Suarez (90 + 7); Chelsea - Oscar (26), Hazard (pen 57)

The London club twice took the lead with a header by Oscar and an Eden Hazard penalty either side of a Daniel Sturridge equaliser for Liverpool, before Suarez headed in at the death.

But the post-match focus is firmly on the Uruguayan striker for all the wrong reasons as he appeared to bite Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic after the pair had tussled in the penalty area in the second half.

After a subdued opening, Chelsea took the lead on 26 minutes when Oscar found himself unmarked from a corner to beat Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina at the near post with a glancing header.

Liverpool were sparked into life by the introduction of Sturridge at halftime and the former Chelsea striker drew them level with a tap in at the far post on 52 minutes.

Parity was short-lived, however, as Hazard coolly dispatched a penalty five minutes later after Suarez had handled in the area, to put a smile on the face of Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez on his return to his former club. Yet with the six minutes of stoppage time already played, Sturridge crossed for Suarez to glance in a header at the near post that Chelsea ’keeper Petr Cech could only push into the roof of the net.

Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Jose Enrique, Gerrard, Lucas, Downing (Shelvey 80), Henderson, Coutinho (Sturridge 46), Suarez.

Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Luiz, Bertrand, Ramires, Mikel, Mata (Lampard 90), Oscar (Moses 83),Hazard (Benayoun 78), Torres.