Liverpool held the draw 2-2 in Aston Villa, while the Premier League leaders dropped points to give Arsenal Hope in the title race.
Replacing Darwin Nunez had the opportunity to beat him, but at the final stages she flashed because the second half of Trent Alexander-Arnold refused the strike earned the Liverpool point to increase his advantage on eight points playing the game more than Arsenal.
Ollie Watkins sent the villa to the lead just before halftime, while they came from behind after they gave Mohamed Salah the opener, but visitors were just nine minutes before the Youra Tielemans equalized.
Liverpool now faces big games in Manchester City, live on Sky Sports This Sunday, and Newcastle in the Premier League as the title racing is increasing, and Arsenal knew I could close the gap on five points. Aston Villa remains in the ninth place after pushing the leaders to the end, despite a multitude of defense injuries.
Alexander-Arnold was hooked shortly after his equalizer and appeared dissatisfied with the decision of Arne Slot to replace him with Conor Bradley, who was then forced to injury 23 minutes after he came.
Villa replied impressively after a difficult opening period while Marcus Rashford shone on his first start for the hosts. Manchester United Loinee had an effort for Curling and won a free kick that led to the equalization of the tielemans.
Diogo Jota missed the glorious opportunity to immediately renew Liverpool’s lead after Villa equalized, but she completely made her wrong strike when he scored a goal against Emis Martinez.
Andres Garcia, who was signed by Villa in a winter transmission window, was guilty of the Liverpool opener as he passed the ball of Jot, who flew to Salah to score his 24th league goal of the season. The goal came as Liverpool aimed at the unpleasant play of the villa.
Will Liverpool live to complain about his encouraged chances remains to be seen. They only lost once in the league this season and are being persecuted by a team of Arsenal without an attacker. If they can drive a storm in the next two games, hope will be faded by their rival hopes.
Van Dijk: We should have won
Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk talking to TNT Sport:
“A little disappointed, but we fight. We had a chance to win the game, we eventually took the risk, so sometimes it was more open. We take a point and move on and focus on the big weekend, again.
“We owned ourselves pretty well, we created good opportunities to achieve another. Disappointment that we acknowledged from a set-in-komada. We tried everything and unfortunately that was not enough for three points.
“We should have achieved 3-2, but the credit for Aston Villa, they made it difficult.
“We have very difficult for the weekend again, and then we play Newcastle. Our focus will now be in Man City, a very difficult game, we know that.
“Do everything in your power to win the games, the focus will be on Sunday.”
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