2023-10-21 14:02:00
Mohamed Salah as a savior. Without shining, far from it, the Egyptian winger allowed Liverpool to win 2-0 on Saturday afternoon against Everton and at the same time take the provisional lead in the Premier League, before facing Toulouse on Thursday in Europa League. Dominant but not really dangerous, the Reds had to wait for Salah’s penalty in the 75th minute to bring down a courageous Toffees defense, reduced to ten after the exclusion of Ashley Young in the 37th minute. The Egyptian scored a double in the 97th minute on a very good serve from Darwin Nuñez. This is already the sixth defeat this season for Everton, who are close to the red zone.
A logical consequence for a cautious tactic. Sean Dyche will not have changed his precepts at Anfield by offering a low block against a disappointing Liverpool team. All the more regrets for the Toffees who have long forced the Reds to strike from afar like Alexis Mac Allister (34th), Trent Alexander-Arnold (40th), Dominik Szoboszlai (45th+1), Luis Diaz (63rd) or even Darwin Nuñez (65th).
Salah, difficult double scorer
The domination of Jürgen Klopp’s men, if not sterile, was above all imprecise until the end of the meeting. Despite the exclusion of Ashley Young in the 37th after a second late tackle on Diaz, we had to wait until the 75th minute and a penalty converted by Salah to finally see a dangerous shot on target from Liverpool. The 31-year-old winger, author of the 2-0 on excellent work from Nuñez (97th), is far from having achieved his best performance of the season. Well blocked by an excellent Vitaliy Mykolenko in the first half, he lacked skill in the second half.
He was not helped at the end of the match by ill-advised choices from Diogo Jota (93rd) or Szoboszlai (96th) who, like the entire Liverpool team, did not find real solutions in attack placed facing this low block. A first important element for Carles Martinez Novell, coach of Toulouse, future opponent of the Reds on Thursday in the Europa League. But the teammates of Ibrahima Konaté, who came out in the 66th minute to avoid a second yellow card, remain formidable up front and have now scored at least two goals in each meeting since August 18. Here they are back, at least for a while, with the same number of points as Tottenham and Arsenal at the top of the English championship.
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