Bajcetic, Liverpool’s Boxing Day King

The rivalry between Jürgen Klopp and Unai Emery is for the German coach and Liverpool beat Aston Villa 3-1 in Birmingham, an important victory for the ‘reds’, forced not to fail to climb the positions and getting closer to the Champions League zone. The young man from Vigo Stefan Bajcetic is a great star, 18 years old and scored Liverpool’s third goal in the 81st minute, his first as a ‘networker’ and as a professional footballer. The Anfield team is 6th, 5 points behind the Champions League (and with one game less). Aston Villa, 12th.

Liverpool made a good start to the game at Villa Park. It’s minute 5 Mohamed Salah took the ‘reds’ forward taking advantage of Andy Robertson’s through ball. The goal gave peace of mind to Klopp’s side, who were eliminated on Thursday from Carabao Cuo by Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in the round of 16.

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It was Virgil van Dijk, after some rebounds and a final assist from Salah, who made it 0-2 on the scoreboard after 37′ of the first half in which the ‘reds’ were better than Unai’s Aston Villa Emery.

But not everything was done by Liverpool, because Aston Villa took control of the ball and in the second half had the opportunity to worry the ‘reds’ and complicate the match. For example, the ones that Leon Bailey has. And Ollie Watkins was the star, who first had a goal disallowed for offside but eventually his tally went up on the scoreboard at 59′.

The situation becomes complicated for Liverpool, while, again, despite being participatory, Darwin Núñez continues to be completely lacking in accuracymissing every chance he had, although he made good passes to his teammates.

Until former Celta player Stefan Bajcetic, who reached 79′ for Jordan Henderson, calmed Liverpool with his excellent goal, the first he scored as a ‘red’ player and as a professional. A good and quick action by Darwin Núñez made the goal possible. The Uruguayan reached the end line and sent the ball back. Bajcetic appeared, went past the goal, Olsen, and finished the play with a touch of class, crowning himself the king of Boxing Day ‘red’. Bajcetic is the second youngest Spanish player after Cesc Fàbregas to score in the Premier: the Galician did it at 18 years and 65 days and the Catalan, at 17 years and 113 days.

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