Lverpool 2 Wigan 0
With the gulf between the Premiership and the rest growing, nobody needs to tell De Zeeuw how vital the coming weeks will prove.
De Zeeuw said: "Paul Jewell told us ages ago there are 50 million reasons for staying in the Premiership, that's the same for everyone. There is a huge fish hung out there for us all and financially the next games are probably the three biggest this club has ever had.
"I've got experience of both sides of it. I know how not to do it and how to escape. I desperately hope we survive and I think we will. I certainly won't be sitting there telling the lads what it is like to go down."
Well, fifth-bottom Latics may experience it for themselves if there are too many more days like this.
The Independent
Jewell given no quarter as Kuyt put Wigan out for count
Paul Jewell has been here before, of course. Not just Anfield, where the Wigan manager spent four years polishing Kenny Dalglish's boots and cleaning up in the Central League goal-scoring charts, without getting a sniff of a first-team chance.
Back in 2000, his Bradford City side squeezed out of the Premiership relegation frame with an unlikely last-day win against Liverpool at Valley Parade. Seven years on, it could yet go down to the wire again for the former Liverpool reserve-team goal poacher.
There was no win for Jewell against his old club yesterday, and no consolation point either. In fact, there was not even a shot on target, just a late header by Caleb Folan.
The Guardian
Liverpool need all-round dose of Kuyt's sharp medicine
There were few positives for Wigan, other perhaps than escaping a hammering which would have had a grim effect on their goal difference.
Paul Jewell admitted he had come here intent merely on holding on for a point, with that game plan wrecked by the defensive indecision that gripped John Filan and Jackson to allow Kuyt to flick in the opener.
They mustered one plausible chance but José Reina saved wonderfully from Caleb Folan and the Latics were condemned to a sixth successive league game without a win.
They hover only two points from the cut-off, with West Ham due at the JJB Stadium on Saturday
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