[ad_1]
sports
Reuters
Liverpool, champions of the English Premier League, suffered a historic defeat against Aston Villa (2-7) in the meeting that brought them together on Sunday night, on the fourth day of the “Premier League”.
Aston Villa hit the “Reds” with four goals to one in the first half, while forward Ole Watkins scored three hat-trick goals for the locals in the minutes (4, 23 and 39), while his colleague John McGinn scored a goal in the 35th minute.
Egyptian Mohamed Salah scored Liverpool’s only goal in the 33rd minute of the first half.
Ross Barclay reinforced Aston Villa’s lead early in the second half, scoring the fifth goal, in the 55th minute. Salah scored the second personal goal for himself and the guests in the 60th minute.
Then Jacques Gralich closed the goal festival and the seventh for his team, scoring two goals in the two minutes (66 and 75).
read more
According to the “Opta” statistics network, this is the first time Liverpool have scored 7 goals in a game, since they lost to Tottenham by the same score (2-7) in April 1963.
Liverpool suffered the biggest defeat in their history against Aston, and it is also their first defeat in the current league season, after 3 consecutive victories, to fall to fifth place in the table.
The Aston team made history with this victory, which is his biggest over Liverpool after the first (6-1) in 1932, and advanced to the league runner-up position with 9 points.
Source: RT
[ad_2]
