Liverpool survived a great fear of rock-day Southampton, as they earned a 3-1 victory from 3-1 at Anfield.
Will Smallbone gave visitors a shock lead from a half -time hit as he used a mess in the Reds background to use at the end of the dig. However, Darwin NunezEqualizer changed the TEN game shortly after the restart, and Mohamed Salah put the hosts in front of the place later.
The Egyptian then late inserted another penalty kick to secure the victory that moves Arne Slot’s side 16 points clear on Top of the Premier League.
How the game took place
Liverpool approached the opening of scoring with five minutes on the clock when Curtis Jones overturned the shot of the width of the post only inside the box. But it seems that every early swing is lost during a long -lasting game after the conflict of the heads between Southampton Defenders Ryan Manning and Jan Bedrek who forced the latter.
As such, the chances have proven to be a little far between lethargic hosts, whose best opportunities Nunez crossed, and then sends weak left legs after a smart turn into Aaron Ramsdale’s arms.
Still, it felt like it was just a matter of time before Liverpool did not clicked in the equipment, which created the fact that Southampton opened the scoring just before he was still surprised.
Came with the kindness of mixing the back, with Virgil van Dijk Assumed in an attempt to protect the ball back to Alisson Becker, allowing Will Smallbone to come in and finish through the goalkeepers.
Clearly, Arne Slot saw enough and made three replacements on a break in replacing Dominic Szoboszlai, Costas of Tsimikas and Curtis Jones for Harvey Elliott, Andy Robertson and Alexis Mac Allister. And these changes paid off the current dividends, with the current improved Liverpool, turning the game on the head in nine minutes of half.
Their first goal saw Nunez side legs from the immediate vicinity after Luis Diaz landed Kyle Walker-Peters to the line and pulled back.
Just two minutes later, Liverpool They were sentenced, the Smallbone goalkeeper who knocked down Nunez in the box while Southampton was desperately trying to clean. As always, Salah remained from the place.
To their merit, visitors did not give up and underlined their threat when Cameron Archer forced a wise stop from Alisson with a firm -angle shoot after running behind the break on the break.
But their hopes at the point were ended when Yukinari Sugawar treated the inexpensively in the box five minutes from the time, giving Liverpool a punishment sent by Salah explicitly.
Too often you hear any decent performance of the fight Premier league The side against one of the great blows of the division was discharged as a complacency from the latter. But it’s hard to put Liverpool’s strenuous efforts here from the first half to anything, but that, especially since the goal of Southampton came from an inexplicable failure to simply clean the ball.
Fortunately for the reds, they managed to shake it at halftime, no doubt thanks to the rocket in the manager’s locker room. This effect cannot be repeated in huge tests waiting against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League and Final Opponent Carabao Cup Newcastle, that’s for sure.
Just when Liverpool fans think they are out there, Nunez somehow manages to pull them in.
Unusual, Uruguayan recently attracted public irra from his manager as a result of a observed lack of effort During meetings with Aston Fairy and Wolves. However, he answered brilliantly, setting up the unlikely winner in Paris on Wednesday, before finding the net himself and winning a penalty in this game.
Indeed, no matter what he does between now and summer, the separation of ways looks inevitable, but if Nunez in the meantime still contributes in great ways, then everyone will be happy.
With only nine points on board, Southampton is still in danger of winning the Derby district (11 points) The worst team of all time. But this will certainly not be the case if I can repeat the performance seen on Anfield, which truly intimidated the selected champions.
The saints looked up at the fight, threatening to break and continue to work for each other until the last whistle. If I can hold it, then you would imagine that they will be able to ask for three more points from their ten remaining knots.
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