He crossed the “Selhast Park” and caught – even temporarily – the top of the Liverpool! His team Jurgen Klopp she found them dark at her headquarters Crystal Palacebut his expulsion Saint in the 75th minute, he tipped the scales in favor of the visitors to win 2-1.
A match which was also combined with his historic performance Mohamed Salah, since the Egyptian scored his number 150 goal in the Premier League and entered the top ten scorers. At the same time, Klopp won for the 13th time against Crystal Palace, which is also his favorite… victim!
Somehow, the “reds” will wait for Arsenal to lose at home to Aston Villa to stay first, while the “eagles” remained for the 5th consecutive match without a win.
The hosts were better overall in the first half, they had the most classic chances to find the goal but failed to do so. The first threat came from Tsimika’s long shot that did not find the target in the 4th minute, with Palace closing the spaces well towards their goal and having a huge opportunity in the 27th minute to open the scoring, but Alisson made the intervention of the match in the nearby place of Lerma. With the home side having two more good moments until the end, but 0-0 remains.
Klopp, seeing his team not hitting well, put Gomes in Edo’s place and switched Arnold to midfield, with Hodgson responding with Edouard. A little later, the German coach threw Hakpo Konate into the match, with Crystal Palace finally finding the lead in an unsuspecting phase with his penalty Mateta for 1-0 in the 57th minute.
THE Liverpool measures were subsequently taken and his strict dismissal Saint with a second yellow card in the 75th minute, he encouraged the visitors. Because in the very next minute they scored the equalizer with Salah to see his finish counter just enough to end up in the net for 1-1. A historic goal for the Egyptian since it was his 200th with the “reds” and number 150 in the Premier League, entering the top ten scorers.
His team Steal was suffocatingly pressing, while the forced change of goalkeeper for Palace did not… affect it in terms of rhythm. Because with the completion of 90 minutes of the match, o Eliot who had gone on to the grass earlier as a substitute, took a terrific dry shot from outside the area to execute it Matthews, signing the upset for the 2-1 final. Of course, in order for the score to remain as it was, Alison had to put his hand in the last phase of the match and with a great intervention to keep the result for his team!
In detail, the program of the 16th matchday:
Saturday (9/12)
Crystal Palace-Liverpool 1-2
(57′ pen. Mateta – 76′ Salah, 90′ Elliott)
Wolves-Nottingham Forest (17:00)
Manchester United-Bournemouth (17:00)
Brighton-Burnley (17:00)
Sheffield United-Bradford (17:00)
Aston Villa-Arsenal (19:30)
Sunday (10/12)
Everton-Chelsea (16:00)
Luton-Manchester City (16:00)
Fulham-West Ham (16:00)
Tottenham-Newcastle (18:30)
The schedule for the next (17th) matchday:
Friday (15/12)
Nottingham Forest-Tottenham (22:00)
Saturday (16/12)
Manchester City-Crystal Palace (17:00)
Bournemouth-Luton (17:00)
Newcastle-Fulham (17:00)
Chelsea-Sheffield United (17:00)
Burnley-Everton (19:30)
Sunday (17/12)
Arsenal-Brighton (16:00)
West Ham-Wolves (16:00)
Brentford-Aston Villa (16:00)
Liverpool-Manchester United (18:30)
Source: Sport Fm
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