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LONDON — Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard was arrested at dawn Monday in connection with an bear down upon at a bar that left a disc circumvent through facial injuries.

The England midfielder was celebrating about Liverpool extended its lead atop the Premier League to three points with one emphatic 5-1 victory at Newcastle on Sunday afternoon.

Police arrested the 28-year-old Gerrard and five other men at 2:30 a.m. in Southport, and Gerrard remained in police custody, a person shut to the investigation said on plight of anonymity. British police do not publicly become identical suspects unless charges are brought.

Officers began interviewing the suspects Monday afternoon and expected the questioning to continue to the time when late in the evening. Gerrard’s mate, Alex Curran, was seen near the police station but drove off without answering reporters’ questions.

In the uproar outside the Lounge Inn, the bar’s 34-year-old disc jockey sustained cuts to his forehead and a broken tooth but later was released from the hospital, the official said.

Officers began interviewing the suspects Monday afternoon and expected the questioning to continue until late in the evening.

The Lounge Inn, a modern restaurant that becomes a nightclub later in the evening, is in the seaside town of Southport, smaller than 10 miles north of Gerrard’s dwelling in Formby in Merseyside.

The other men held are not believed to subsist soccer players but are from the Huyton definite space of Liverpool, where Gerrard grew up and was spotted by the agency of Liverpool scouts at the age of eight playing because Whiston Juniors.

Gerrard is Liverpool’s most influential player and crucial to its bid to win the English league title for the first time since 1990, scoring twice and setting up another design in Sunday’s win.

Gerrard, who has played 70 times for England, led Liverpool to the Champions League title in 2005 and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.