Liverpool have won even on its gray nights. In the antipodes of their brilliant and fast game, Jürgen Klopp’s men were able to follow in Arsenal’s footsteps by beating Sheffield United thanks to goals from Van Dijk and Szoboszlai (0-2).
The ‘red’ team took to the field with personality. Wanted to find a place with a few touches, but no success with the shot on goal. A deficit that lasted most of the game. Also among the mistakes, the first was the most serious after the loss of Joe Gomes, which Kelleher had to save in a one-on-one with McAtee.
Not that Sheffield were doing anything of note to preserve the draw. It’s more that Liverpool are on a slow march, even knowing that every point is gold the way to the Premier League. There was less of a rush when Van Dijk, on a corner kick where he could have been fouled, got on the mark to score the first (37′).
He did it with his second shot between the sticks. The former, the work of another central defender, Konaté, on a corner kick. Same as the third, with a similar play finished by Salah but this time taken by Foderingham with a huge hand raised already in the second half.
It was a dull contest, devoid of tension and with a Sheffield side who put more will than good intentions on the ball. So, he only had to try to achieve surprise in the last moments of the game, but his sentence came. Without Salah and Luis Díaz on the field, or with Mac Allister injured, Szoboszlai had to score the second and final goal in stoppage time (95′).
match lineup
18
twenty
35
5
19
fifteen
8
twenty-one
32
28
10
62
66
2
3
5
4
8
10
18
Eleven
7
Bramall Lane
Caoimhín Kelleher62
95′
Trent Alexander-Arnold66
73′
Joe Gomez2
87′
Wataru Endo3
33′
Ibrahima Konaté5
61′
Virgil van Dijk4
36′
Dominik Szoboszlai8
93′
85′
Alexis McAllister10
58′
74′
Cody Gakpo18
85′
Mohamed SalahEleven
66′
Luis Diaz7
66′
Replacements
Adrian13
87′
Marcelo PitalugaFour. Five
Kostas Tsimikastwenty-one
Jarell Quansah78
Conor Bradley84
73′
Curtis Jones17
58′
85′
89′
Harvey Elliott19
66′
Ryan Gravenberg38
85′
74′
Darwin Nunez9
66′
83′
coach
Chris Wilder
Jurgen Klopp
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
