2023-04-22 16:30:12
Portuguese Diogo Jota (47 and 55) and Egyptian Mohamed Salah (70) scored Liverpool’s goals, and Neco Williams (51) and Morgan Gibbs White (67) scored Nottingham Forest’s goals.
Liverpool raised its score to 50 points in seventh place, 6 points behind Newcastle IV, the last qualifier for the Champions League at the present time, knowing that the latter plays its match in this round against Tottenham V on Sunday.
On the other hand, Nottingham’s balance stuck at 27 points in the nineteenth place, a point behind Leicester City and Everton in the 17th and 19th places, respectively, with 28 points each.
Nottingham, who rose to the Premier League this season after a long absence since 1999, held out in the first half despite Liverpool’s large possession rate.
At the beginning of the second half, Jota managed to open the scoring with a header (47), but Nottingham equalized through former Liverpool player Neco Williams (51).
And Jota gave Liverpool the lead again when the ball reached him with his back to the goal inside the area, so he turned on himself and fired it left, creeping into the net (55).
And Nottingham refused to equalize the score again through Gibbs White’s shot, which hit the foot of a Liverpool defender and deceived Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson.
However, the last word was for the Egyptian Salah, who took advantage of a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold to follow it from close range into the net, raising his tally to 16 goals in the league this season.
Leicester City came from behind at home to Wolverhampton to win 2-1. The loser advanced with a goal to his Brazilian striker Mateus Konya (13), and Leicester responded with two goals for Nigerian Kelechi Iheanacho (37 from a penalty kick) and Belgian Timothy Castagne (75).
Brentford stopped a series of five victories for Aston Villa, drawing with him 1-1. Scored for the first by Evan Toni (65), and justified the second by Brazilian David Luiz (88).
Crystal Palace tied with Everton negatively.
The leaders, Arsenal, snatched a difficult 3-3 draw against its guest, Southampton, in last place, after falling behind 1-3 in front of it until the 88th minute, before scoring two goals in the last minutes at the opening of the stage on Friday, and now ahead of Manchester City by only 5 points, knowing that it fought Two more matches than City before their upcoming meeting next Wednesday at the Etihad Stadium.
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