Liverpool went on a mine. It was a loss at the Vitality Stadium.
Bournemouth took the lead in the match after just over 25 minutes of play. Virgil van Dijk made it happen when he took down a long ball in his own penalty area. The Dutchman failed to do so, whereupon Alex Scott was able to pick up the ball and play forward Evanilson who made it 1-0. In the situation, Liverpool’s Joe Gomez also got a serious driver from his own goalkeeper Alisson Becker.
– van Dijk’s poor defensive play leads to the goal after he dangles a tentative leg next to the ball instead of clearing. Gomez takes a knock trying to stop the ball going into the goal and that makes the misery even worse, said Sky Sports’ Patrick Rowe.
– It’s a mistake by van Dijk, said former England international Rob Green in the BBC.
1-0 became 2-0. Alex Jimenez extended the home side’s lead at the Vitality Stadium after just over half an hour and it came on the back of deft defensive play from Milos Kerkez as van Dijk canceled out the offside.
“Two terrible goals to concede,” wrote The Athletic’s James Pearce.
Right after the 2-0 goal, Joe Gomez went out, probably after the knock at the first goal, and he was replaced by Wataru Endo. Before that, Liverpool had played with ten players for several minutes while waiting to make the change. According to Daily Mail journalist Lewis Steele, Alisson Becker had previously disobeyed an instruction from the bench.
“Arne Slot and Sipke Hulshoff (assistant coach) shouted at Alisson and Liverpool to play the ball out in order to make the substitution, but they didn’t. The game continued for several minutes and Bournemouth made it 2-0,” he wrote on X.
Liverpool’s action prompts Alan Shearer to react.
– Both goals Liverpool conceded were self-inflicted. van Dijk made a mistake on the first goal while the second was just amateurish. Why didn’t you just kick the ball out when playing with ten players? They had the opportunity to do it and in the end had to pay the price, legend Alan Shearer told the BBC.
van Dijk believes that it is possible to see the situation from several perspectives.
– We played with ten players and it can be argued that we should have played the ball out. It’s not on Alisson. It is easy to say that we would do that. It happens in a second. We decided to keep the ball and unfortunately we conceded a goal. Losing never feels good, especially not as a Liverpool player, says the centre-back to Sky.
van Dijk took some revenge on himself in this match. The centre-back headed in a corner shortly before the break and the score was 2-1.
During the break, Liverpool coach Arne Slot chose to remove Milos Kerkez and replace him with Andy Robertson.
With ten minutes left of regular time, Liverpool equalised. Stekhete Dominik Szoboszlai put in a free kick to make it 2-2 after Salah poked the ball to him.
– Dominik Szoboszlai comes to the rescue. Salah heels it (the free kick) just a little wide. The players obscure the view of the goalkeeper. The Bournemouth players are furious with (Djordje) Petrovic, and he is furious with them, Rob Green said in the BBC.
It looked to be the last goal of the game. But Bournemouth wanted otherwise. In the final seconds, Amine Adli put it 3-2 for Bournemouth and Liverpool lost.
– Unbelievable, to be honest. I think we played a very good first half and we went 2-0 up. Then they scored and equalized. A late victory is perfect for us, says Bournemouth’s Marco Senesi to Sky according to the BBC.
Liverpool remain fourth in the Premier League while Bournemouth park in 13th place.
Startelvor:
Bournemouth: Petrović – Smith, Hill, Senesi, Truthert – Scott, Cook – Alejandro Jiménez, Kroupi, Adli – Evanilson.
Liverpool: Alisson – Frimpong, Gomez, van Dijk, Szosslai, Mac Allister, Salah, Gakpo, Wirtz.
