Published
By going to win (2-0) in Brighton, Saturday, for the 29th day of the Premier League, Liverpool came back on the heels of Manchester City who will not play until Monday, at Crystal Palace.
Salah scored from a penalty.
Getty Images
With 66 points, the Reds are only three points behind City, while the two teams have the same number of matches (28). Facing the Seagulls (13th with 33 points) who remained on 4 straight defeats , the Reds have made up for their inconsequential misstep once morest Inter Milan (1-0) in the Champions League, which did not prevent them from qualifying for the quarter-finals on Tuesday. This eighth success in a row in the championship does not suffer from any dispute, despite the few chances that Graham Potter’s men have obtained.
From the 19th minute, a millimeter opening from Joel Matip for Luis Diaz had allowed the Colombian to slip his head and deceive the Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez who came to meet him. The dangerous exit of the goalkeeper, with a leg raised on the side which came to strike Diaz, sounded on the action, might have deserved a red card, but the VAR decided otherwise.
In the second half, it was Mohamed Salah who doubled the score on a whistled penalty for a handball by Yves Bisssouma following a strike from Naby Keita which did not seem on target (2-0, 61st). The Egyptian, who had hit the crossbar on a deflected shot three minutes earlier, struck hard through the middle to score his 20th league goal of the season and his club’s 2,000th in the top flight, a bar that alone Manchester United had reached before him.
Liverpool will play their late match of Matchday 27 at Arsenal on Thursday, but there will be another one immediately following due to the postponement of the clash once morest Manchester United, originally scheduled for next weekend, due to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for which the Reds are still in contention. But all eyes are already on April 10 and a Manchester City-Liverpool that might be very expensive in the title race.
(AFP)
