Crysencio Summerville scored a dramatic overdue winner as Leeds United taken aback Liverpool 2-1 at Anfield on Saturday night, handing Jurgen Klopp’s side their first domestic greatest League loss in 30 matches.
Liverpool were given off to another disastrous start after 4 mins while Joe Gomez performed a blind lower back bypass to Alisson, who had moved out of his purpose and slipped, leaving a gaping space for Rodrigo to run in and tap the ball into the empty internet.
Mohamed Salah levelled for Liverpool 10 mins later whilst Andy Robertson crossed for the Egypt worldwide to hook a volley into the internet from near range, igniting the Liverpool supporters.
Leeds, who had been winless of their past eight foremost League video games, had been undeterred by way of the equaliser and persisted flying round the field, with the crossbar and a few timely saves by way of Alisson the handiest things retaining Liverpool level on the destroy.
“It became a set-lower back, certainly. I concept we had a truely exact start then conceded a freakish intention,” Klopp stated after the match. “We scored the equaliser, but for some cause it failed to deliver us the security again. We struggled to control the game and gave too many balls away.”
Klopp’s side created a total of 22 scoring possibilities but accidents and contamination have robbed them of key gamers, not least in assault wherein they’re missing Diogo Jota.
“the men attempted, we had proper ownership and had big chances however, in the end, if it is 1-1 and you protect the scenario around the second one purpose like this, you go away the whole lot open,” Klopp introduced.
“Harvey [Elliott] has been awesome for us this season. He had a good start, however couldn’t preserve it going. Thiago has been ill, up front the equal [players] play all the time — they’re the three strikers we have left.”
Liverpool were better within the 2nd 1/2 and driven hard for the winner, as Leeds keeper Illan Meslier saved his side in the sport almost single-handedly, pulling off a fantastic shop from Darwin Nunez in a one-on-one after 67 mins and then clawing away a shot from the Uruguay international once more 11 minutes later.
Meslier’s saves set the scene for Summerville to steal the three points with a ultimate-gasp poacher’s finish.
On the eve of his 21st birthday, the ahead snapped up a ball within the container from Patrick Bamford and quickly permit fly a snap shot across Alisson and into the net for the winner.
“it’s a massive moment for me and my own family,” Summerville instructed Sky sports. “Scoring at Anfield is a huge moment for me. It went so short … While you’re within the field, you have to assume speedy. It just happened.”
The loss follows Liverpool’s defeat at bottom side Nottingham wooded area on Oct. 22 and in addition deepens the crisis across the struggling Merseyside membership, who are 9th in the table with 16 factors after 12 games.
The win takes Leeds out of the relegation area as much as 15th on 12 points.
Liverpool have league video games at Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton to come back before subsequent month’s global Cup, which cannot start speedy sufficient as Klopp seeks to discover some answers to his side’s poor form inside the premiere League.
“We had issues from the first day [of the season], harm wise,” Klopp said. “players have had to play from the primary day. It is our situation and it way we must assist ourselves, and that is what we will do.”
