Liverpool survived a great fear of the Southampton Rockboden when they scored a 3-1 win in Anfield 3-1.
Will Smallbone gave visitors a shock lead over half of the half when he used the confusion in the backline of the Reds to tap at the end of the Cop. The compensation of Darwin Nunez, shortly after the restart changed the complexion of the game, and Mohamed Salah made the hosts ahead of the position minutes later.
The Egyptian then achieved another penalty to secure a victory, which moves Arne Slots page 16 points at the head of the Premier League.
How the game unfolds
Liverpool opened the gate on the clock with five minutes when Curtis Jones rolled a shot from the box from the post. But every early impulse seems to be lost during a long break after a collision between the defenders of Southampton Ryan Manning and Jan Bednarek, the latter broke off.
As such, the opportunities for the lethargic hosts, whose best possibilities have an overview and then sent a weak left foot in the arms of Aaron Ramsdale after a clever twist.
Nevertheless, it only felt a matter of time before Liverpool clicked, which led to Southampton scored the goal shortly before the break.
With the kind approval of a mix -up in the background, whereby Virgil van Dijk was far too granted to protect the ball back to Alisson Becker to enable Smallbone to reach and end the legs of the goalkeeper.
Arne Slot had clearly seen enough and made three substitutions at the break at the break at swap by Dominik Szoboszlai, Kostas Tsimikas and Curtis Jones for Harvey Elliott, Andy Robertson and Alexis Mac Allister. And these changes immediately paid dividends, with an immediate improved Liverpool turning the game upside down in nine minutes in the second half.
In her first goal, the auxiliary foot was up close after Luis Diaz had passed Kyle Walker-Peter in the Byline and withdrawn.
Just two minutes later, Liverpool received a penalty, the scorer Smallbone brought Nunez down in the penalty area when Southampton tried to clarify. As always, Salah made the rest of the spot.
The visitors did not give up and underlined their threat when Cameron Archer forced a clever stop from Alisson with a shot from a narrow angle after entering the break.
But her hopes for a point ended when Yukinari Sugawara unexplained in the box five minutes before the time and Liverpool gave a punishment that Salah emphasized.
Too often, they hear a decent performance of a fighting Premier League team against one of the great rackets of the division that were rejected by the latter as complacency. But it is difficult to put Liverpool’s sad efforts here on something in the first half, especially to clarify the ball, especially, especially as Southampton’s goal, to make an inexplicable failure.
Fortunately for the red, they could shake this off at half -time, undoubtedly thanks to a rocket in the manager’s changing room. This performance cannot be repeated in the huge tests that expect Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League and the Carabao Cup final opponent.
Especially as a Liverpool fans believe that they are on the go, Nunez somehow manages to pull them back in.
Unusually, the Uruguayan recently attracted the public anger from his manager due to a perceived lack of efforts when meeting Aston Villa and Wolves. However, he reacted brilliantly and set up an unlikely winner in Paris on Wednesday before he found the network himself and won a penalty in this game.
In truth, no matter what he does between now and summer, part of the paths of the paths, but when Nunez contributes in a large way in the meantime, everyone will be happy.
With only nine points on board, Southampton is exposed to the risk of beating Derby County (11 points) as the worst Premier League team ever. However, this will certainly not be the case if you can reproduce the performance seen on ANFELD, which gave the chosen champions a real horror.
The saints went to the fight, threatened during the break and continued to work to the last whistle. If you can maintain this, you can imagine that you can claim three points from your ten remaining lights.
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