There was no room for error Liverpool and the technician knew it very well Jurgen Klopp, who traveled to the stadium Craven Cotaggein London, with the clear objective of getting the three points so as not to lose ground in an overwhelming race for the title of the Premier League and recover from the painful removal of Europa League at the hands of Atalanta.
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Liverpool visited this Sunday Fulham, on matchday 34 of the Premier League, and fulfilled the task, although at various times during the match he showed little lucidity. However, the red team carried out a complicated game against a rival that knew how to create problems: it was 1-3 as a visitor.
Fought He was the first to warn with a header approach, but he was unable to direct the ball. Liverpool He began to tie himself up and Fulham knew how to contain the attacks of a team that seemed out of ideas.
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The Guajiro, 27 years old, at times played as a right winger, at other times as a false nine, his position was not well defined, but it was not an impediment to once again demonstrating the impetus that characterizes him. He fought, ran, and defended, but the goal prize was far away.
Liverpool took the lead on the scoreboard, but got overconfident and lost the ball, the locals began to push hard and exposed the defensive errors of the networksreaching the tie just before the break thanks to both Timothy Castagne.
For the complement, Liverpool showed another attitude, the scolding of Klopp In the locker room it worked and the goal fell after 8 minutes had elapsed on the clock. Liverpool recovered high, Harvey Elliott attended to Ryan Gravenberg, who took a tight shot to the goalkeeper's left post for the partial 1-2.
The county club Merseyside began to handle the ball better, the positions of the players on the field of play were not fixed and in attack Luis Díaz, Cody Gakpo and Diogo Jota They moved al
l over the front.
Thus came the third, the one that brought the game down in the 72nd minute. Diogo Jota received a pass into the void from Gakpo and with a left foot he scored the third on a cold afternoon in London. After the goal, Klopp He moved the bench and gave Luis Díaz a rest, who is playing every three days.
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Very important victory of the Liverpool that does not soften in that fight for the Premier League and that puts pressure on the Manchester Citywho did not play their match of the day as it was postponed due to their FA Cup semi-final match against Chelsea.
The Reds are now second in the standings and reach Arsenal's line with 74 points, but with a worse goal difference than those led by Mikel Arteta.
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