What increases the intensity and excitement of the competition between the two teams is that they will meet twice this month, the first in the league on "Etihad Stadium" Next Sunday in a match whose outcome may be decisive to determine the destination of the title, and the second one a week later at a stadium "Wembley" In the semi-finals of the cup competition.
With the Senegalese striker sitting, Sadio Mane On the bench, a few days after leading his country to the World Cup finals at the expense of his Egyptian colleague Mohamed Salah, who played a key Saturday, Liverpool regained the dreamer with a historic quartet in the best way for his trip on Tuesday to Portugal, where he faces Benfica in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
And in his nineteenth confrontation on "Anfield" Against coaches who had previously supervised him, this time Roy Hodgson, who failed to repeat the April 2012 scenario with West Bromwich when he became and remains the only former coach of a team "red" Beating them in their stronghold, Liverpool struggled to enter the atmosphere after returning from the window designated for international matches.
But the brilliant Portuguese Diogo Jota, who was excited about leading his country to the 2022 World Cup through the European playoff, succeeded in opening the scoring for the German coach Jurgen Klopp’s team from the first real opportunity, with a header after a cross from Joe Gomez, taking advantage of a wrong exit from goalkeeper Ben Foster (22), To raise his score to 14 goals alone, in second place on the scorers list behind his colleague Salah (20).
After the goal, Liverpool returned to suffering in building attacks and did not threaten their guest’s goal until the 38th minute, when Foster starred this time in blocking Jota’s shot from a narrow angle.
The result remained the same until the end of the first half, in which Watford was the best and even the most dangerous, similar to the beginning of the second half, in which Liverpool was affected by the suffering of its star Salah Particularly, where the Egyptian missed his usual seriousness.
Klopp resorted to Mane instead of Salah in the 69th minute, hoping that the African champions would be able to secure the result for the hosts with a second goal, but he did not, in turn, provide anything to keep Jota’s goal separating the two teams until the last seconds, when the Portuguese himself snatched a penalty kick from the Slovakian Juraj Kotska Anbri It was the Brazilian Fabinho with success (89), dealing the final blow to the guests who received the eighth defeat in a row in the stronghold. "red".
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And when the difference between the two teams reached 14 points, he rose up Leferball With a series of great matches, reaching the top spot on Saturday, two points ahead of City, awaiting the latter’s match with its host Burnley later on Saturday.
What increases the intensity and excitement of the competition between the two teams is that they will face each other twice this month, the first in the league.Etihad Stadium“Next Sunday, in a match whose outcome may be decisive to determine the destination of the title, and the second one a week later at a stadium.”WembleyIn the semi-finals of the cup competition.
With the Senegalese striker sitting, Sadio Mane On the bench, a few days after leading his country to the World Cup finals at the expense of his Egyptian colleague Mohamed Salah, who played a key Saturday, Liverpool regained the dreamer with a historic quartet in the best way for his trip on Tuesday to Portugal, where he faces Benfica in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
And in his nineteenth confrontation on “Anfield” against coaches who had previously supervised him, this time Roy Hodgson, who failed to repeat the April 2012 scenario with West Bromwich when he became and is still the only former coach of the “reds” team to win them in their stronghold, Liverpool struggled to enter the atmosphere after Return from the window dedicated to international matches.
But the brilliant Portuguese Diogo Jota, who was excited about leading his country to the 2022 World Cup through the European playoff, succeeded in opening the scoring for the German coach Jurgen Klopp’s team from the first real opportunity, with a header after a cross from Joe Gomez, taking advantage of a wrong exit from goalkeeper Ben Foster (22), To raise his score to 14 goals alone, in second place on the scorers list behind his colleague Salah (20).
After the goal, Liverpool returned to suffering in building attacks and did not threaten their guest’s goal until the 38th minute, when Foster starred this time in blocking Jota’s shot from a narrow angle.
The result remained the same until the end of the first half, in which Watford was the best and even the most dangerous, similar to the beginning of the second half, in which Liverpool was affected by the suffering of its star Salah Particularly, where the Egyptian missed his usual seriousness.
Klopp resorted to Mane instead of Salah in the 69th minute, hoping that the African champions would be able to secure the result for the hosts with a second goal, but he did not, in turn, provide anything to keep Jota’s goal separating the two teams until the last seconds, when the Portuguese himself snatched a penalty kick from the Slovakian Juraj Kotska Anbri The Brazilian Fabinho succeeded in it (89), dealing the final blow to the guests who received the eighth defeat in a row in the “red” stronghold.