Liverpool win yet again to make it 18 in a row and match Man City’s Premier League win record in a dramatic game at Anfield. A game in which 67 minutes in Liverpool trailed by 2 goals to 1, but you just knew somehow, you just knew that Liverpool would manage to get out of a poor performance with another win. This team has the mentality of beasts and absolutely never know when they are beaten.
The game started well for the Reds and when Gini Wijnaldum headed home a lovely Trent cross on 9 minutes it looked like it was going to by another comfortable night ahead at Anfield.
Within 2 and a half minutes, though, West Ham were level after Diop headed home on 12 minutes. This somewhat knocked the sting out of Liverpool and they were average for much of the rest of the first half. Particularly in defence were they were sloppy and allowed West Ham to put their goal under threat on multiple occasions, and despite a TAA freekick that went very close after deflecting off a West Ham arm in the wall as well as a VVD header that smashed the bar, Liverpool were probably reasonably happy to get into the dressing room at half time on level terms.
And so they kicked off after the break and what was a relatively subdued crowd in the first half was much more like itself in the second, sensing that the Redmen needed a little help. But it wasn’t quite enough and West Ham duly took the lead in the 54th minute, when Fornals turned a centred ball into the far corner past a scrambling Alisson.
But it was early and this Liverpool side were not about to lie down just because they went behind to West Ham, they don’t lie down when they go miles behind to the likes of Barcelona!
They huffed and puffed and pressed more and more as the KOP got louder and louder, it was only a matter of time. In the end a scuffed Salah shot in the box wormed its way through the West Ham keeper Fabianski’s legs, and Liverpool were level. He should have saved it but that is what a baying KOP can do to a man! The very definition of “sucking the ball into the net”.
Liverpool now were attack, attack, attacking, and eventually the ball broke to Trent on the back post and he squared it across for a simple tap in by Sadio Mane. A further Mane goal, set up by Trent again, was ruled out for offside before a late West Ham free kick that failed to deliver led to the whistle and a massive cheer from the crowd meant Liverpool had done it yet again!
18 wins in a row to match Man City’s record and now 105 points out of 107 to bury any record in Europe. 4 more wins until we can party. Hard. Up The Reds!
