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The team won 6-2 at home on Sunday. In addition to scoring a couple of goals, Jack Grillish scored three with his teammates. Ross Berkeley and John McGinn each scored one goal. Mohamed Salah scored two goals for Liverpool.
Liverpool tasted the bitter taste of the first category after three consecutive victories in the event. This is the first time since April 1983 that they have conceded seven goals in a game. Seba also lost to Tottenham Hotspur by the same margin.
In the fourth minute, Liverpool digested the goal, forgetting about goalkeeper Adrián. Inside Box D, he passed Joseph Gomez. But he missed the ball. Take control of Aston’s grillish ball and spread it out to the front of the six-yard box. Watkins was not wrong in moving the team forward.
The English forward doubled the lead in the 22nd minute with a great goal. He found direction with a powerful shot, smashing through Liverpool’s Gomes, entering area D from the left with the ball extended by Grilish.
Diego Jota of Liverpool could have scored in the 28th minute, his shot from outside the area was stopped by the goalkeeper in exchange for a corner.
Salah closed the gap in the 33rd minute. The Egyptian forward sent the ball into the net with a left-footed shot after a quality shot from Sadio inside the box blocked one of the opponent’s players.
A minute later, however, Aston regained a two-goal lead. McGinn’s volley from outside the D-box bounced off Virgil von Dyke’s leg and into the net.
In the 39th minute, Watkins completed the hat-trick by sending the ball into the net with a header from very close to the center of his teammate. In September 2010, he became the first player since Manchester United’s Dimitar Barbatov to score a hat-trick against Liverpool in the Premier League.
Berkeley increased the lead in the 10th minute of the second half. His shot from outside the D-box landed on the leg of a Liverpool player and found the net. Four minutes later, Salah narrowed the gap to his second goal.
However, in the 8th and 65th minutes, the hosts left the field with a great victory with two goals from Grillish.
Aston has risen to number two with 9 points from three wins in three games. Everton are on top with 12 points from four games.
Liverpool have five with three wins and nine points at a pace. Leicester City and Arsenal have three and four points respectively. Tottenham, who beat Manchester United 6-1 in another match of the day, have six points out of six.
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