Lloris clanger gives Liverpool late title lifeline
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Having triumphed late against Fulham just before the international break, through a penalty awarded after another goalkeeper blunder, Liverpool won even later. They have only six games to go and this was quite probably their most taxing remaining fixture. City are slender favourites, but they arguably have a tougher programme. But what is tougher? So tight are the margins in this title race that we have to go game by game, and with an encounter like this, almost minute by minute. Certainly, here, it was defined in the 85th minute as well, with Spurs appearing set to ram home their superiority by actually winning this game.
No one could have argued with the result if they had done. Instead, they head to their first game at their new stadium on Wednesday and could do down to fifth place before they kick off – if other results go against a team who have now taken just one point from 15.
It could have been so different. With five minutes to go, at 1-1, they broke swiftly with Moussa Sissoko sprinting forward, before Harry Kane played a brilliant first-time pass to substitute Son Heung-min. He released Sissoko, who had continued his run, and suddenly it was two against one except, fortunately for Liverpool, that one was Virgil van Dijk. He gambled by closing off the pass to Son and forcing Sissoko to shoot. It was not what the midfielder wanted but, even so, he should have scored. Instead, he blazed wildly over.
It felt like another big moment and so it proved as Salah headed a hoisted Trent Alexander-Arnold cross goalwards. Spurs did the rest. By then Liverpool were playing with a 4-2-4 formation but, despite having all those attackers, it was their two full-backs who were their standout performers, with Andrew Robertson also contributing with an assist.
With Mauricio Pochettino in the stands, serving the second game of a two-match ban for confronting referee Mike Dean, Spurs also had to adjust to the absence of Harry Winks and Eric Dier by reverting to a three-man defence. As assured as they started it did not work and the manner in which Liverpool opened the scoring will have infuriated the Spurs manager.
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