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  • Liverpool vs Arsenal: How did we not win with late chances? Jurgen Klopp after 2-2 draw

    Liverpool fought once more to beat a two-goal deficit to secure a 2-2 draw with Arsenal in an exhilarating Premier League match at Anfield. 

    UPDATED: Apr 10, 2023 13:22 IST

    Liverpool fought once more to draw 2-2 with Arsenal at Anfield. (AP Photo)

    By India Today Sports Desk: Liverpool fought once more to beat a two-goal deficit to secure a 2-2 draw with Arsenal in an exhilarating Premier League match at Anfield.

    Liverpool trailed 0-2 after Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus put Arsenal in entrance after 28 minutes. Mohammed Salah pulled one once more to take Liverpool throughout the first half, 1-2. After resumption, Salah missed the possibility to provide an equaliser as his penalty kick went in depth.

    Liverpool displayed their hunger and keenness, having fun with their most interesting soccer throughout the ultimate 10 minutes. The Reds breathed a sigh of help throughout the 87th minute, when substitute Roberto Firmino headed home on the once more put up after receiving a terrific cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold.

    The hosts had the prospect of handing Arsenal their sixth consecutive defeat at Anfield nevertheless Salah blazed a sitter over the crossbar in stoppage and Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale made an outstanding save to deny Ibrahima Konate his first goal for Liverpool.

    Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp had no reply to make clear why his facet could not win the match.

    “A bit typical for us this season. An open game, completely open, they score with the first situation and the second one,” Klopp talked about. “Our reaction was good. It was a spectacular game in the end. How we didn’t win it with those late chances I don’t know.”

    Liverpool proceed to take a seat down throughout the eighth place, 29 elements behind Premier League desk leaders Arsenal (73 elements from 30 matches). The draw moreover opened the door for defending champions Manchester City (67 elements), who’ve carried out one a lot much less sport than Arsenal, to nonetheless defend their title.

    “I’m caught in between (being happy and not),” Klopp talked about. “I have no problems with drawing.

    “Arsenal had been good nevertheless they might and may have misplaced this sport. The stage for them is more healthy. The goal we scored helped massively. All of a sudden we had been answerable for a wild sport. We deserved a minimal of some extent.”

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    Apr 10, 2023

  • ‘Monumental score… everything about it was staggering’: Michael Owen on Liverpool beating Manchester United 7-0

    After watching his former aspect blow Manchester United out of the water with a 7-0 scoreline, Liverpool legend Michael Owen lauded the end result as a turning level for the under-performing membership’s season.

    “They were pretty ruthless. The over-riding headline is that it’s seven goals. You almost have to see it to believe it. And this was a United team coming into the game with everyone raving about them. They were flying high, and there were question marks really by Liverpool’s name. If there was ever a turning point for Liverpool, to get everything back on track, then surely this is it,” Owen mentioned within the Premier League studio after the end result.

    Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored a brace whereas Roberto Firmino got here off the bench so as to add yet one more to that tally.

    This was Liverpool’s largest aggressive win over United within the Premier League, surpassing the 7-1 win they’d within the second division, method again in October 1895.

    Summing up how incredulous the end result was, he added: “Anyone that looks at the result will think there’s something wrong, or Manchester United went down to ten, or even nine men, but none of that is true. It’s a monumental score and performance from Liverpool, everything about it was staggering.”

    The end result got here every week after United claimed their first trophy since 2017 by profitable the League Cup. The defeat left United in third place on 49 factors and certainly out of the title race. They are 14 factors off leaders Arsenal, who’ve performed a recreation extra.

    Liverpool’s fourth win in 5 league matches lifted them above Newcastle United into fifth on 42 factors, three factors behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with a recreation in hand.

  • Pep Guardiola says Liverpool followers threw cash at him

    Pep Guardiola says cash have been thrown at him throughout Manchester City’s 1-0 defeat at Liverpool within the Premier League on Sunday.

    The City supervisor remonstrated angrily with a piece of the Anfield crowd after Phil Foden noticed a objective dominated out when VAR invited referee Anthony Taylor to evaluation the pitchside monitor.

    Guardiola repeatedly gesticulated at followers within the quick aftermath and later stated cash have been thrown in his course.

    “Next time they will do it better,” he stated within the post-match information convention. “They didn’t get me. They strive it once more subsequent yr.

    “All these coins, they tried, but didn’t get it. They got the coach years ago.”

    Guardiola was referring to an incident when Liverpool followers attacked City’s staff bus forward of a Champions League match in 2018.

    Asked if he had enticed a response from the house supporters, Guardiola stated: “They shout, we shout more.”

    And he was clearly nonetheless angered by Foden’s objective being disallowed after Taylor noticed a foul on Fabinho within the build-up.

    “This is Anfield,” he stated.

    Mo Salah’s 76th-minute objective proved the decisive second on a dramatic day when Jurgen Klopp was proven a pink card for angrily charging out of his technical space.

    Defeat for City leaves Guardiola’s staff 4 factors behind chief Arsenal, which gained 1-0 at Leeds earlier Sunday.