Liverpool continued to lose points in the English Premier League, after falling into a 2-2 draw with its host Brighton, on Sunday, in the eighth stage of the competition.
Brighton scored through Simon Adingra in the 20th minute, but Egyptian international star Mohamed Salah equalized for Liverpool in the 40th minute. Salah scored again after scoring Liverpool’s second goal in the first minute of counted time instead of stoppage time for the first half of the match. Penalty.
Brighton equalized through Louis Dink in the 78th minute, giving each team a point.
Thus, Liverpool, which lost 1-2 to Tottenham Hotspur in the last stage, raised its score to 17 points in third place temporarily.
At Falmer Stadium, the match between Brighton and Liverpool began with an intense attack by the host team, which applied advanced pressure on Liverpool’s defence, and almost opened the scoring more than once in the first minutes.
Brighton translated its offensive activity with a goal signed by Simon Adingra in the 20th minute. Adingra took advantage of a fatal mistake by Van Dijk in the pass, as he retrieved the ball and ran with it, before shooting from the edge of the penalty area towards the empty goal, taking advantage of the poor positioning of Brazilian Alisson Becker, goalkeeper. Liverpool goal.
The Liverpool players tried to reorganize their ranks again, but to no avail against the guest team’s goal, which almost increased the score in the 26th minute through Pascal Gross, who shot from the edge of the area, but the ball hit the defense and went out for a corner that was not exploited.
The 40th minute brought good news to Liverpool fans, after Mohamed Salah scored the equalizer for the Red Team. From an organized attack that witnessed a group of quick and precise passes, the ball reached Darwin Nunez, who passed it to Salah, who shot a shot with his left hand from inside the area, placing the ball to the right of the Dutch Bart Verbogen, Brighton’s goalkeeper.
The match was stopped for a while, following a strong collision between Liverpool winger Luis Diaz and Verbogen in the 42nd minute. One minute later, the match referee awarded a penalty kick for Liverpool, after Dominik Soboslai was pulled by the shirt inside the Brighton penalty area.
Salah executed the penalty kick successfully, after putting the ball in a powerful drive to the left of the Brighton goalkeeper, scoring the second goal for Liverpool in the first minute of stoppage time in the first half, which ended with the visitors leading 2-1.
The second half began with an intense attack by Brighton, who missed an equalizing opportunity in the 49th minute by Adingra, who received a forward pass, and launched the ball from the right side, until he reached the penalty area, skillfully evading the defense, and finding himself alone in the goal, but he recklessly shot into the penalty area. The body of Baker, who came out of his range to meet him.
Liverpool tried to exploit the empty spaces in Brighton’s defence, and the young Dutchman Ryan Gravenberch, who replaced Harvey Elliott before the start of the second half, missed a sure chance in the 54th minute. Gravenberch followed up on a creeping cross pass from the right side through Soboslaj, and shot directly from the left side of the area. Penalty, unmarked and a few steps from the goal, but he put the ball very strangely on the crossbar.
Luis Diaz wasted another opportunity to double the score for Liverpool in the 68th minute, when he received a forward pass and shot unsupervised from the left of the area, but he put the ball wide of the goal.
Brighton players demanded a penalty kick in the 70th minute after the ball touched Van Dijk’s hand inside a penalty area, but the referee indicated that play should continue, noting that the ball collided with the body of the Dutch defender before it touched his hand.
The 78th minute witnessed the equalizer for Brighton through Louis Dink, who followed a direct free kick from the left side, which was crossed by Solomon Marsh, and he shot directly while he was a few steps from the goal, placing the ball to the right of Baker into the net.
Brighton almost took advantage of the defensive confusion that Liverpool suffered after the equalizer, after Joao Pedro missed a sure chance in the 83rd minute, as he received a cross from the right side, and shot directly into the area guarding the defense, but he put the ball over the crossbar to everyone’s astonishment.
Liverpool responded with a shot from Luis Diaz in the 89th minute, which went wide of the goal, followed by a shot from Salah in the next minute, which collided with the defence, after which the visitors increased the pressure in an attempt to snatch the winning goal, but to no avail, so the match ended in a 2-2 draw.
2023-10-08 19:39:23
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