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Football.ua, together with project partner Carlsberg, is summarizing another successful fight between the champions of England, which was overshadowed by a terrible injury to the goalkeeper of their rivals.
March 16, 2021 12:09 AM
The 28th matchday of the English Premier League with its schedule also marked the start of a new week, on the first matchday of which the final match of an atypical football weekend took place between Wolverhampton and Liverpool. The country’s reigning champions came to Molinho with a rather obvious task: to interrupt a streak of two-cushion losses in national championship matches that have consistently occurred at Anfield.
Nuno Espirito Santo prepared a suffocating style of play for his team’s rivals from the first minutes. The “red” had to withstand the pressure of the “wolves” with clenched teeth in the early phase of the fight, and Jurgen Klopp’s team did not play their best during this period of time. Doubts even arose about the actions of Alisson, who at the end of the first minute managed to drop the ball from his hands as he served from the right wing of Adam Traore, but Semedu could not take advantage of the carelessness of the rival goalkeeper.
Unfortunately, the teams did not increase the speed of their attacks in the future, so we saw the first half quite stingy on scoring occasions. Wolverhampton lacked emphasis on completing flanking attacks, and Liverpool, with its tactic of playing through a long pass to counter-attack, received very few such situations for a quick exit. But! This does not mean that they did not exist at all. For example, why didn’t Mané have a chance to score in the 13th minute, when Sadio sped off at Patricio’s speed to the left side of the penalty area, but didn’t dare to hit the half-empty goal from an acute angle? ?
It was a rare situation with a fortunate exacerbation of the guests. Additional chances had to wait almost until the end of the first half, but it was during this period that the ‘Reds’ managed to secure the goal they scored. Having taken two hits from Neves on defense from various positions in relation to the penalty area, Liverpool itself did not mind launching another offensive against someone else’s goal. Triángulo Mane – Salah – Jota closed the fast play with the transfer from Senegalese to Portuguese on the left flank of the penalty area, after which Diogo upset the fans of the former club with a shot to the corner.
This episode was supposed to change the course of the fight in the second half, but no one would have thought that the emphasis would shift towards further reducing the number of attacks from both teams. In general, we are talking only about the missed chances of Coadi and Zhota, who were actively hindered by the opponents’ defenders.
It would be better to have finished with a double-edged game, so you might think at the end of regulation time, when Salah threw the ball over the head of the opponent’s goalkeeper from the right flank of the penalty area, after having fallen into a position. offside during the Oxlade-Chamberlain trade. The moment is dynamic, and even so rare in the context of this game, and also productive! Obviously, the details are off the screen. But they played a key role, completely changing the impression of this fight.
Wolverhampton defender Conor Coadi tried to intercept his rivals’ Egyptian striker, and did not see Rui Patricio in his way. As a result, a knee kick from a defensive player hit the head of the “wolves” goalkeeper, after which he was unable to move, lying on his back on the grass. Lots of doctors around, medical stretchers, a good 15 minute break, and one of the first examples of a fourth substitution being used in the Premier League as a result of a suspected concussion. #StayStrongRui
In the next round, Wolverhampton will play a home game against London’s West Ham, and Liverpool will independently visit the UK capital, where they will meet Arsenal.
Wolverhampton – Liverpool 0: 1
Aim: Crest, 45 + 2
Wolverhampton: Patricio (Raddy, 90 + 10) – Boli, Cody, Saiss – Semedu (Gibbs-White, 84), Neves (Dendonker, 76), Moutinho, Honny – Netu, Traore – Willian Jose (Silva, 69).
Liverpool: Alison – Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, Kabak, Robertson – Tiago (Keita, 66), Fabinho, Weinaldum (Milner, 66) – Salah, Jota (Oxlade-Chamberlain, 81), Manet.
Warnings: Neves, Saiss – Tiago.
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