Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 12:16 AM
LONDON, February 18th, 2020 (WAM) – Liverpool confirmed its awakening with a second successive victory in the English Football League, and defeated its host Newcastle 2-0 today, Saturday, in the 24th round of the competition, which also witnessed today Arsenal’s victory over Aston Villa 4-2 and Manchester City tied. With Nottingham Forest 1-1.
At the “St James’ Park” stadium in Newcastle, Liverpool snatched a valuable victory at its host Newcastle, so that the match would be the best preparation for Liverpool before facing Spanish Real Madrid next “Tuesday” in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16.
Liverpool achieved its second consecutive victory in the competition, which is also the second after 4 matches without any victories in the competition.
Liverpool raised its balance to 35 points, and Newcastle’s balance froze at 41 points in fourth place, after suffering its second defeat in the competition this season.
Liverpool settled the match early with goals scored by Darwin Nunez and Cody Jakobo in the 10th and 17th minutes.
Arsenal escaped defeat at Aston Villa and snatched a valuable 4-2 victory in stoppage time from the match, leaving Arsenal at the top of the competition table again with 54 points, two points ahead of defending champions Manchester City.
Aston Villa ended the first half in his favor 2-1, but Arsenal turned the match in his favor through 3 goals in the second half; Including two goals in stoppage time for the match .. This is the first victory for Arsenal in the last 4 matches he played in the competition.
Manchester City tied with Nottingham Forest, with a goal scored by Bernardo Silva in the 41st minute, compared to a goal scored by Chris Wood in the 84th minute.
In other matches today in the same round, Everton beat Leeds United 1-0, Fulham beat Brighton 1-0, Southampton beat Chelsea 1-0, Bournemouth beat Wolverhampton 1-0, and Brentford tied with Crystal Palace 1-1.
Awad Mukhtar / Ahmed Zahran / Zakaria Mohieldin
