After five hits, Liverpool got off the canvas. The reds, bruised in their champion pride for the five consecutive days without victories, They dodged the KO against Tottenham with a prestigious triumph (1-3) that returns them to the race for the Premier. They remain fourth, four points – with one more game – from Manchester City after taking off their complexes and deactivating Mourinho’s plan. The Portuguese looked to despair at a Pool that accumulated four days without scoring with its three centrals … but the MSF found the holes in its wall.
The ghosts haunted Klopp at the start. Man kicked out one call and the next Son made it 1-0. The VAR annulled the goal for offside giving an extra life to the reds. Everything changed when Kane’s right ankle was injured. Thiago slipped on his entrance to English, which was hooked the joint. He resisted the first part … but had to be replaced.
A nightmare for Kane, who has been injured seven times! on your ankle on your spur adventure. The two serious ailments that chained between January and April 2019, on Tottenham’s path to the Wanda final against the Pool, reappeared. But before the Kane-Son duo broke up, Liverpool grew up. The Spurs did not cut their careers and suffered. Lloris fren Salah, Man … but could not with Firmino.
In December, at Anfield, the Brazilian scored the winning goal (2-1) in the 90th minute against Tottenham. And a month and a half later, he repeated on the last play of the first part. Man found him in the area and did not miss. The Brazilian finished with 482 minutes and four and a half games without goals in the Red League. They needed 93 shots to score. They haven’t done it since 0-7 at the Palace on December 19. Mourinho despaired.
Firmino turned on the tap and the targets came out in a torrent. With Tottenham stunned by Kane’s injury and his changes, Alexander-Arnold made it 0-2 at the restart. Hojbjerg, with a missile, got the Londoners into the game in the next action. A band-aid in the hemorrhage. Liverpool was a cyclone and Lloris and VAR – a goal disallowed by Salah by Firmino at the start of the play – only delayed Man’s 1-3. The Senegals beat Luis Surez’s 69 reds goals (70). Tottenham is sixth. And Liverpool is back. A release. Goodbye to the crisis.
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