Liverpool 1-0 QPR: Winning performance on Carragher's last match before retirement

 
Retirement: Defender Jamie Carragher
20 May 2013

Jamie Carragher's final match for Liverpool before retirement ended in a 1-0 win over QPR, who finish bottom of the league.

Philippe Coutinho grabbed the winner with a fine 23rd-minute strike but Carragher, goalless since 2006, almost grabbed the spotlight when he hit the woodwork in the second half.

Carragher's former Liverpool and England team-mate Michael Owen also played the last match of his storied career but a 16-minute cameo in Stoke's 1-1 draw at Southampton was not one to remember.

Peter Crouch gave the Potters the lead two minutes into the second half and Rickie Lambert levelled 10 minutes later for the Saints.

Managerless Manchester City ended a disappointing season with a 3-2 home defeat to Norwich.

One of Roberto Mancini's much-maligned summer signings, Jack Rodwell, twice equalised for City but goals from Anthony Pilkington, Grant Holt and Jonny Howson won it for the Canaries.

West Ham beat the Canaries to a top-half finish with a 4-2 win over relegated Reading.

Kevin Nolan claimed a hat-trick and Ricardo Vaz Te also netted, while Garath McCleary and Adam Le Fondre ensured the Royals did not go down without a fight.

FA Cup winners Wigan are also bound for the npower Championship but they added one final point to their tally with a 2-2 draw against Aston Villa.

Darren Bent, on a rare start, had put Villa ahead before Emmerson Boyce's header and a Nathan Baker own-goal gave the Latics a sniff of victory.

Ron Vlaar snuffed out those hopes in the 61st minute.

Fulham shook off some questionable form to inflict a 3-0 defeat on Swansea, Alex Kacaniklic, Dimitar Berbatov and Urby Emmanuelson on the scoresheet for the Cottagers.

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