'For a team whose success this season has been built on being incredibly difficult to beat even when not playing well, it was deeply discombobulating to see them so very easy to beat despite playing well.'
Date published: Saturday 18th February 2023 8:51 -
Go back a bit further, and Liverpool are now responsible for three of Newcastle’s last four Premier League defeats. Manchester City claim the other. So this is very clearly the level Newcastle are at now. And then Liverpool took the lead. Both Liverpool’s goals combined three ingredients. A world-class assist, a great touch and finish from a maligned Liverpool forward, and inexplicably poor positioning by assorted members of what had until today been the Premier League’s best and most organised defence.
Soon after, Mo Salah clipped another perfect pass in for Gakpo to exploit the baffling amounts of space suddenly to be found behind Sven Botman and Fabian Schar and prod the ball past the onrushing Pope. But at the same time… what on earth was Pope thinking? Sometimes the criticism of a player will be that he “gave the referee a decision to make”. Pope didn’t even do that when he came careening out of his area and both handled the ball and wiped out Salah. It was two red-card offences for the price of one. And it was so, so costly.
Which means there’s two ways of looking at this for both teams. Liverpool scored two fine goals and secured a result that potentially saves their league season; defeat today would have been hugely damaging. But they still don’t quite look right.
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