Fulham became the second side to win a Premier League victory against Liverpool by Arne Slot when they emerged with a 3-2 victory at Craven Cottage on Sunday afternoon.
Almost seven months after Nottingham Forest countered their way to a 1-0 victory in Anfield, Fulham took the match to Liverpool. Without being discouraged by the puffy opening of Alexis Mac Alllister, the Cottager scored three goals in 14 minutes in the first half.
Luis Diaz half reduced the deficit in the second half, but Fulham valiantly hung on to the three points.
How the game went
Fulham boss Marco Silva demanded a “perfection” performance of his out of form chalet. They delivered.
The swallowing double act of the Liverpool midfielder forced visitors to take an early advance. Ryan Gravenberch was the first to a loose ball in the midfield and Mac Allister finished second on the scene, advancing before forming a clear walk in the upper corner. However, Fulham embarked on the ascendant thereafter.
The Reds were ahead for less than ten minutes before Ryan Sessegnon controls a half-volley in the lower corner, hanging on erroneous release from the rear right of emergency Curtis Jones. Fulham’s diabolical press has also proven too much for the other rear of Liverpool.
Andy Robertson was guilty of a trio of blunders during the accumulation of the second goal of Fulham, inadvertently deflexing the strike of Alex Iwobi beyond his own goalkeeper.
Rodrigo Muniz crowned a blitz in the first half with Fulham’s third goal in 14 minutes out of breath. The Brazilian striker managed to tame a bullet abandoning the london sky without a cloud and passing in front of Virgil Van Dijk with the same scandalous touch. Even by falling towards the lawn, Muniz slipped his shot between the open legs of Caoimhin Kelleher.
Not impressed by his attempts to start Xi to deviate from the deficit, Slot traveled four substitutes by more than a quarter of the remaining competition. Two of these arrivals combined in the 72nd minute while Conor Bradley led Infield before rejecting the ball so that Luis Diaz produced beyond Bernd Leno.
Diogo Jota forced an excellent backup of Leno and Harvey Elliott crushed a curling effort on the transverse bar while the Fulham back line fell so deeply that they were almost supported with the fans behind their lens. However, their resolution would not be perforated, ensuring that the coronation of the title of Liverpool will have to wait another week.
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“People want new players in our club, people want players to go out,” Robertson said earlier this season. “It’s just the world we live in.” Although transfer speculation is more widespread than ever, the decreasing performance of the Scottish did not do much to suppress dissident voices.
Robertson’s difficulties this term were distilled in a devastating passage of play in the 32nd minute. Faced with the press is approaching Fulham, the 31 -year -old explained a nerve pass directly to Iwobi. Not content with a gift, his weak head returned the ball to the Fulham striker who beat Kelleher with a tamed effort that slipped Robertson’s chest.
It was painfully appropriate that the Robertson’s final touch of half-time was a failed attempt to control a simple pass that was torted on the key line.
As he has hurt in response to all this meticulous examination, Robertson valiantly served from the reliable left back of Liverpool in the past eight years. There remains the first choice of slot, but there is the growing suspicion that it could be replaced next season.
Antonee Robinson de Fulham has often been presented as a potential candidate – and did not hurt another screen measured on Sunday.
Mohamed Salah lies in the stratospheric field of players who beat an endless supply of goals records with each outing. However, the reverse of the medal of this medal is the increase in the meticulous examination on these elite individuals on rare occasions that they do not find the net.
Four consecutive outings without objective or a assist do not even approach the remarkable status for most players. However, the last time that Salah suffered drought as long in the 2021 locking era.
After shooting a blank against Paris Saint-Germain, Newcastle United and Everton, Salah was again rejected on the sidelines of the Sunday competition. When he was presented with his first goal with his second touch inside the 65th minute box, the top scorer of the Premier League set up his efforts in the Thames.
It would be very easy to embark on a tirade against Liverpool’s new complacency. The Reds had not lost a premier League match in which they had scored the first goal since April 2023. That this race ended a day after everyone apparently accepted the status of Liverpool as high -level champions cannot be a coincidence.
However, Fulham applied the pressure to force Liverpool’s tripage.
Aside from its immaculate finish, Muniz was a perpetual devastating, buzzing around Van Dijk to leave the famous central back involving without pre -coveted. The cottager were not only courageous enough to support, but chose their moments to jump perfectly.
Faced with a crimson torrent of pressure in the fence stadiums, Fulham’s rearguard reprimanded Five-Man held firm. After a week which saw their quarter -final of the FA Cup aggravated by a derby defeat against Arsenal, the team of Marco Silva rallied impressively.
