Liverpool vs. Tottenham: 7 Things We Learned 

Monday night's 0-0 draw between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur saw the two sides gain a point each which does neither of them much help at all.

The Reds missed out on the chance to go above Arsenal and into sixth place. Spurs are now seven points behind league leaders Manchester City but, perhaps more importantly, the gap between them and fourth-placed Chelsea remains the same amount.

The foggy night at Anfield saw the return of Luis Suarez, but not the presence of Harry Redknapp after the Spurs manager's flight from London was cancelled.

Here are seven things we learned from last night's match.

Liverpool Can't Put the Suarez/Evra Affair Behind Them

Suarez made his first appearance since Boxing Day against Spurs, coming off the bench midway through the second half to a rapturous welcome from the home crowd.

The Uruguayan has now completed his eight-match ban handed to him by the FA after they found him guilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.

Liverpool closed ranks around their star striker, backing him to the hilt and even wearing T-shirts before a match in support of him.

Still, that was last year, and all water under the bridge now, right? Wrong.

After the match, a rather chippy Kenny Dalglish said: "It's fantastic we got him back—he should never have been out in the first place."

The Suarez/Evra affair has been one of the most bitter events in English football over the last few years, stoking a partisan tribalism that many had hoped was consigned to the past.

Liverpool may feel a sense of injustice at their forward's suspension, but it should now be consigned to the past. With the John Terry issue still very much ongoing, it would be nice to keep it down to just one race row at a time.

Andy Carroll Really Needs to Start Scoring

It has been more than a year since Liverpool signed Andy Carroll for the huge fee of £35 million, and he is still yet to come anywhere close to justifying that major outlay.

The striker has scored just five goals in the Premier League for the Reds in 29 appearances. This season, those figures read as three strikes in 24 games in the division.

Such a glaring lack of cutting edge has contributed to Liverpool having the lowest conversion rate of chances in the league this season, just 8.5 percent. Swansea are the only team in the top 10 of the table to have scored fewer goals than Liverpool.

While there is plenty of attacking talent in the squad with the likes of Suarez, Craig Bellamy, Maxi Rodriguez and Dirk Kuyt, Carroll is the club's only out-and-out striker, and as such needs to start delivering sooner rather than later.

Liverpool Still Struggling on the Home Front

The draw against Spurs was Liverpool's eighth in the Premier League at Anfield this season from just 12 games.

Whilst it is true that they remain unbeaten at home in the competition—something only Manchester City can match—the failure to beat teams such as Sunderland, Blackburn and Stoke on their own patch is a genuine cause for concern.

Anfield has traditionally been a fortress for Liverpool. Opposing players, intimidated by the 'This Is Anfield' sign in the tunnel and the sheer volume and size of The Kop, can often be beaten before they even take to the field, but that is something that is yet to happen under Dalglish's management.

Liverpool Now Have All Three Stars at Their Disposal

Hope that Liverpool can now start to be more effective in front of goal comes in the form of them now having Suarez, Carroll and Steven Gerrard all fit and available.

Gerrard missed much of the first half of the season through injury, while Suarez's post-Christmas absence has now finally come to an end.

Despite Suarez and Carroll both arriving a year ago, Liverpool are yet to start with all three of those players all in the side together.

Although they did not breach Tottenham's back line, the introduction of Suarez certainly appeared to inject a new energy into the Reds team. He also linked up well with Carroll on a few occasions during his 24-minute cameo, while both players had opportunities presented to them from the set piece deliveries of Gerrard.

The Clock Is Ticking on Emmanuel Adebayor

Although he has not been struggling to quite the same degree as Carroll, Emmanuel Adebayor is on something of a scoring drought for Tottenham at the moment.

After scoring nine goals in his first 14 games for Spurs, the Togo striker has now gone eight matches without finding the net, a barren run that stretches back to before Christmas.

Spurs only have Adebayor at their disposal for another 14 Premier League games before his season-long loan from Manchester City ends. In that time they need to make a decision over whether they are going to sign him on a permanent basis or find another player to replace him.

The deadline-day acquisition of Louis Saha is surely little more than a stop-gap measure, perhaps even made as a ploy to coax the best out of Adebayor for the remainder of his time at the club.

If his poor run continues, Spurs may find themselves in danger of not only missing out on the automatic Champions League spot which they have occupied for most of the season, but also of seeing them fall behind next term if they cannot find an adequate replacement.

Ledley King Is England's Best Defender: When Fit

One of the most favoured chants of the Tottenham faithful goes: "Oh Ledley, Ledley/He's only got one knee/He's better than John Terry/Oh Ledley, Ledley."

The Tottenham defender may not be able to train with the ball because the cartilage in one knee has completely eroded, but that does not step him being a towering presence whenever he is able to play. 

King has played 14 times for Spurs this season. The only match they have lost in that run was the dramatic 3-2 loss at Manchester City, when his injury-time foul on Mario Balotelli led to the winning penalty. This was a rare blot on his otherwise spotless record.

At Anfield, King completed 100 percent of his tackles, and made several important blocks in the dying stages.

Fabio Capello clearly recognized King's talents and started him in England's opening game at the World Cup two years ago, only for the Spurs defender to pick up an injury in the first half.

That sums up King's career in a nutshell, but it should not diminish from his exceptional merits as a player when he is fit.

British Players Not Beyond Reproach When It Comes to Diving 

Gareth Bale achieved two landmarks in the game at Anfield.

Firstly, he made his 100th Premier League appearance. Secondly, he became the only player in the Premier League this season to have been booked twice for diving.

The Welsh winger incurred the anger of Daniel Agger after he hit the deck all too readily after no contact was made whatsoever.

He is not alone in British players going down questionably during the last round of matches. Manchester City's Adam Johnson all but admitted that he 'won' his team a penalty against Fulham, while the foul on Manchester United's Danny Welbeck that led to a spot-kick against Chelsea was also highly dubious.

It is high time that the act of diving was once and for all ruled out as a "foreign disease."