Premier: Liverpool achieves agonizing comeback in seven-goal game

Winner the Arsenal on Saturday, the Liverpool responded this Sunday on the wire, on the verge of falling, with a victory through great goals against the Fulhamas rushed as the score reflected (4-3) or even more, because they raised a 2-3 deficit in a flash, in the 87th and 88th minutes, with goals from Wataru Endo and Alexander-Arnold.

The value of the victory, in such an unpredictable match, the way the outcome was, the way it emerged, is considerable, because it sustains it fully in the competition for the ‘Premier League’, just two points below of the leadership of Arsenaland because it extends an impressive streak at Anfield in that competition: it has not lost there for more than a year, since October 2022. There are 19 unbeaten games on this tour at home.

The seventh consecutive victory at home to respond to their recent irregularity, in which they had conceded three away draws.

It was also the seventh winless visit in a row Fulhamwhich has only managed to win one of its last six games, but maintains a reassuring lead over the relegation zone.

The first half ended 2-2. The perfect description of the strength of the two teams. Not from football. Not at a dizzying pace. Nor of the chances, which were practically the same as the goals between the Liverpoolmore dominant, and Fulham, resistant, active and capable of getting up on two occasions from opposing scores.

And it was not worse for the block Jurgen Klopp at halftime due to the goal disallowed for offside by Tim Ream, nor was it for Fulham due to Leno’s save on Darwin Núñez with which the end of the first act, extended to 55 minutes, approached.

The 1-0 was a great goal from a direct free kick by Alexander Arnold, whose phenomenal strike was impossible for Leno, with a visible bandage on his head from the 11th minute, when he was treated for a blow. The shot lodged in the square. It was the 20th minute, just, with the appearance that everything would be much easier than it was for Liverpool.

If he opened the scoring on his second chance, no one counted that the first of the Fulham the tie was out: Antonee Robinson put the low cross from the left wing and Harry Wilson was right to connect with the toe, on the edge of the small area, the 1-1 against Kelleher, the substitute for Alisson, injured on Wednesday, in the goal from Liverpool.

So quickly, just four minutes after 1-0, Liverpool returned to the beginning of everything, in search of their advantage, amidst the restlessness that each counterattack by their rival promoted, among the difficulty of creating more chances.

A team of such size, with a collection of footballers with the talent to invent any goal almost out of nothing, does not need it.

One is Alexis Mac Allister, world champion with Argentina less than a year ago, transferred in the summer of Brighton to Liverpool for 42 million euros. His first goal with the Reds was magnificent. The ball bounced. And he landed a formidable right hand, due to power, due to trajectory, due to destiny, from afar, because it was unstoppable for Leno, who, no matter how hard he stretched, would never have reached the whiplash of the 24-year-old footballer.

Having reached 2-1 in the 38th minute, it was not the solution for Liverpool either, who received the 2-2 in the third of the ten minutes of added time, in a corner kick that was headed by Raúl Jiménez, starter in the visiting attack. and Tete took advantage to hit just enough and beat Keleher again. The shot was so close that the goalkeeper cannot be blamed, relieved when the VAR moments later, still in the first half, annulled the 2-3 score for Ream.

Relaunched from the locker room, two shots from Szoboszlaintermittently, in a more secondary role throughout the duel, changed in the 65th minute by Jurgen Klopp to include Cody Gakpo in the clash, and two others from Luis Díaz, caught without problems by Leno, but above all a shot against the crossbar by Darwin Núñez announced to Fulham a new initial scenario, but also still with the tie.

Actually, it was a while. Liverpool lost strength as the minutes passed against Fulham’s readjustments. Matip was also left without, apparently injured in his knee. He left the field on his own two feet, to the applause of Anfield, to the lamentation of Klopp. replaced it Konate. There were more than 20 minutes left. There was still no clue of another goal when Fulham made it 2-3: De Cordova-Reid, who had just come on, scored the goal in the 78th minute.

Good center Carneywho had also entered the field as a replacement, and a lot of demerit from Tsimikas in the marking, surpassed in the jump, behind him, by the header of a footballer 1.70 meters tall to expose Liverpool.

Not to defeat him, because Wataru Endo, on the field from the 83rd minute, tied with another great goal four minutes later. And not even to tie it, because, in the next action, Alexander Arnold signed the victory.

– Datasheet:

4 – Liverpool: Kelleher; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Tsimikas; Szoboszlai (Gakpo, m. 65), Mac Allister (Joe Gómez, m. 65), Gravenberch (Endo, m. 83); Salah, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz.

3 – Fulham: Leno; Tete (Castagne, m. 75), Bassey, Ream, Robinson; Reed (Vinícius, m. 90), Palhinha; Iwobi (De Cordova-Reid, m. 75), Andreas Pereira (Cairney, m. 62), Wilson (Willian, m. 62); Raúl Jiménez.

Goals: 1-0, m. 20: Alexander-Arnold. 1-1, m. 24: Wilson. 2-1, m. 38: Mac Allister. 2-2, m. 48: Tete. 2-3, m. 78: Fulham. 3-3, m. 87: Endo. 3-4, m. 88: Alexander-Arnold.

Referee: Stuart Attwell.

Incidents: match corresponding to the fourteenth day of the Premier League played at the Anfield stadium in front of around 61,000 spectators.