West Ham and Liverpool drew 2-2 this Saturday in London. The Reds, who have only achieved two victories in their last seven games in all competitions, fall even further behind in the fight for the Premier League. With this tie, Klopp’s team remains one point behind Manchester City, which has two games less, and two points behind Arsenal, which has one game less. Without success and a defense that seemed too weak, Liverpool once again showed themselves incapable of keeping up with their rivals at the top of the standings, as happened the previous day in the Merseyside derby, when they lost to Everton.
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Areola, Zouma, Emerson, Coufal, Ogbonna, Jarrod Bowen, Edson Álvarez, Tomas Soucek (Ward-Prowse, min. 73), Lucas Paquetá, Mohammed Kudus and Michail Antonio
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Alisson, Jarell Quansah (Dominik Szoboszlai, min. 91), Virgil Van Dijk, A. Robertson, Trent Alexander-Arnold (Joe Gomez, min. 78), Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch, Wataru Endo (Darwin Núñez, min. 78 ), Gakpo, Luis Díaz (Salah, min. 78) and Harvey Elliot
Goals 1-0 min. 43: Jarrod Bowen. 1-1 min. 48: A. Robertson. 1-2 min. 65: Areola (pp). 2-2 min. 77: Michail Antonio.
Referee Anthony Taylor
Yellow cards Wataru Endo (min. 29) and Alexis Mac Allister (min. 95)
At the London stadium, Liverpool reached half-time with 76 percent possession, 11 shots – one of them at Luis Díaz’s post – a penalty not awarded due to a millimeter offside by the Colombian attacker himself and a new adverse score. . With Mohamed Salah and Darwin Núñez on the bench and with Díaz as the only threat, Klopp’s team did not find a way to make their football profitable.
After the defeat in midweek against Everton, they appeared in London as a disbelieving team, with more will than conviction, and completed another frustrating first half. Each of West Ham’s few attacks made them tremble, with Jarrod Bowen as the protagonist. The forward, who returned to the eleven after recovering from his back problems, created danger every time he had the ball and scored with a header in the 43rd minute to enter the history of the hammers; equaling Paolo di Canio’s record of 16 goals in the League (1999-2000), becoming the first player since the legendary Geoff Hurts to score against the networks in three games of the same season.
With more energy and, above all, better luck, Liverpool recomposed their figure after the break, favored by the attitude of David Moyes’ men, who had no other plan than to collect themselves in their area. Andy Robertson equalized at the beginning of the second half, and between the Dutch Gakpo, who shot, and the complicity of the low team of the hammersthe comeback was achieved with an own goal by Aureola.
However, not even with the wind in their favor is Liverpool able to close the games, which is bleeding in defense and which allowed a new header goal from Mijail Antonio, 13 minutes from the end. Klopp then brought on Salah, with whom he previously argued on the wing, and Darwin Núñez, but except for Elliot’s shot against the crossbar in the 89th minute, the networks They did not find a way to break a tie that took them almost irremediably away from the title.
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