Nottingham and Liverpool leave in peace – Premier League – J21 – Nottingham Forest-Liverpool (1-1)

Buts : Wood (8^e) for Forest // Diogo Jota (66^e) for the Reds

And Red everywhere.

Unexpected shock of the Premier League, the Nottingham-Liverpool played this Tuesday evening at the City Ground ended in a tense draw (1-1). Deprived of the ball during the first ten minutes, Nottingham played Nottingham, namely scoring as soon as possible. And this possibility came from Chris Wood, forgotten behind his back by Virgil van Dijk and well put in condition by the service of Anthony Elanga on the left side of the area, which the New Zealander only had to cross (1-0, 8^e). In management, Forest mainly used cunning and nudges to annihilate Liverpool's attacks (a thought for poor Luis Díaz), while the Reds had nothing to put under the crampon, except a few counterattacks and long shots poorly negotiated by Dominik Szoboszlai in particular.

Diogo Jota, small but mighty

Things were not moving in the second act, Arne Slot decided to react at the hour mark. The entry of Diogo Jota thus proved to pay off, and in what way. Barely on the pitch, the Portuguese at meter 78 rose higher than all the opposing thugs following a corner put in the box by Kostas Tsimikas, also coming off the bench (1-1, 66^e). Back in the gamethe visitors then stepped on the accelerator, seeing Alexis Mac Allister being deprived of the second goal by the reflex save of Matz Sels (81^e), just like Mohamed Salah (87^e). The last ball will also be for the Egyptian, whose recovery against the cage was released by the impressive tackle of Ola Aina (88^e). Ladies and gentlemen: it was first against second in the Premier League.

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