Football news - Aurier blunder hands Liverpool comeback win at Anfield
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Updated 27/10/2019 at 21:59 GMT
Premier League, Anfield - Liverpool 2 (Henderson 52, Salah 75 (p)) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Kane, 1)
Aurier blunder hands Liverpool comeback win at Anfield
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Liverpool restored their five point lead at the top of the Premier League, recovering to beat Tottenham Hotspur after conceding a goal inside the first minute.
Harry Kane silenced Anfield with a diving header to put Tottenham ahead after just 47 seconds. The home side then put the visitors under incessant pressure, but Son Heung-min might have put Tottenham out of sight when he hit the bar from an awkward angle with the goal gaping just after half-time.
Liverpool found their touch thereafter. Jordan Henderson pulled it level with a smart finish before Sadio Mane won Liverpool a penalty after a rash, naive challenge from Serge Aurier with fifteen minutes to go. Mohamed Salah smashed it into the net to secure all three points for Liverpool.
Tottenham have now dropped to 11th in the Premier League table as their disappointing start to the season continues. For the home side it was a vital three points that retains a useful buffer ahead of Manchester City, with both sides preparing to face each other on 10th November.
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Jordan Henderson of Liverpool (L) celebrates after scoring his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Tottenham Ho
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KEY MOMENTS
1’ GOAL! Liverpool 0 Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Kane 1) What a start for Tottenham! Sissoko breaks forward and plays it to Son on the left. He cuts in and unloads a shot; it deflects off Lovren, hits the angle of post and bar, and Kane runs in to dive and head the ball into the corner!
24’ CLOSE! A brilliant switch of play from Eriksen finds Kane in acres on the left of the Liverpool area. He squares it first time to Alli, but it's just too far in front of him. Alli retrieves, crosses, and it ricochets out to Eriksen; he volleys the ball back across goal where the lunging Kane just fails to connect from six yards out.
27’ BRILLIANT SAVES BY GAZZANIGA! A lightning and precise one-two between Firmino and Salah opens a shooting chance to the latter, whose drive is parried away by Gazzaniga. Firmino gets to the rebound and hammers a volley at goal from a tight angle, which Gazzaniga parries again and Aurier clears for a corner.
31’ CHANCE! Spurs are on the rack here. Alexander-Arnold whips a delicious cross to the back post, but the unmarked Mane makes a mess of his header and it dribbles wide.
48’ OFF THE BAR! What a chance for Spurs! A long ball beats Lovren and suddenly Son is in. He goes around Alisson and, with an open net from a tight angle, hooks his shot onto the bar. It bounces away to safety. That was the game, right there. Will Spurs come to regret that?
52’ GOAL! Liverpool 1 (Henderson 52) Tottenham Hotspur 0 Liverpool are level! Fabinho tries to clip a ball to Firmino at the back post, but he tangles with Rose and the ball deflects slightly into the path of Henderson, who'd looped a run around him. He takes a difficult, rising ball first time with his left foot, and guides it across Gazzaniga and into the far corner!
74’ PENALTY! Mane outpaces Aurier to get to a ball in the Spurs area. In trying to scramble the ball clear, Aurier hacks down Mane and Liverpool have a chance to take the lead.
75’ GOAL! Liverpool 2 (Salah pen 75) Tottenham Hotspur 1 Salah takes it, and drills the penalty to the left of Gazzaniga who was rooted to the floor.
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Mohamed Salah of Liverpool (11) celebrates as he scores his team's second goal from a penalty with Jordan Henderson during the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on October 27, 2019 in Liverpool, United Kingdom
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TALKING POINT
How vital will this victory be for Liverpool? One of the main reasons the Reds ran an imperious Manchester City team so close last season was thanks to several close but crucial victories at Anfield that kept up their momentum. Fortune seemed to favour them when Jordan Pickford dropped the ball from over his crossbar for Divock Origi to score in injury time against Everton and when Hugo Lloris fumbled to force an own goal at the denouement of their game with Spurs. How big a moment might Son locating the crossbar instead of the goal at 1-0 be when this season’s race is run?
MAN OF THE MATCH – Paulo Gazzaniga (Tottenham Hotspur)
In a match high on energy but low on quality from attacking players in the final third, it was Spurs’ goalkeeper who provided the standout performance of the day. His goal was utterly peppered in one five minute spell in the first half, but he held strong in the face of it. But for his high volume of saves the visitors would have gone under by a much bigger score today.
PLAYER RATINGS
Liverpool (4-3-3): Alisson 6; Alexander-Arnold 7, Lovren 6, van Dijk 6, Robertson 7; Henderson 7, Fabinho 7, Wijnaldum 6; Salah 6, Firmino 6, Mane 7
SUBS: Milner 5, Gomez 6, Origi 6
Tottenham Hotspur (4-2-3-1): Gazzaniga 8; Aurier 4, Alderweireld 6, Sanchez 5, Rose 6; Winks 5, Sissoko 6; Son 7, Erikson 6, Alli 5; Kane 6
SUBS: Lo Celso 6, Lucas Moura 6, Ndombele 5
KEY STATS
- Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 10 Premier League games when conceding the first goal at Anfield (W7 D3), winning each of the last six.
- Tottenham are without a win in their last 11 Premier League away games (D2 L9), they last endured a longer such run between May 2000-January 2001 under George Graham (14 games).
- There have been 23 penalties in fixtures between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur; two more than any other match in the competition.
- Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 20 Premier League games against “big six” opponents at Anfield since a 1-0 defeat to Man Utd in January 2016 (W12 D8), winning their last six in a row.
- Paulo Gazzaniga made 12 saves in Tottenham’s defeat to Liverpool, the most by a goalkeeper in the Premier League since David de Gea versus Arsenal in December 2017 (14).
- Jordan Henderson scored his first Premier League goal at Anfield since he netted against West Brom back in December 2015, 1414 days ago.
- Serge Aurier has conceded four penalties in 48 games in all competitions since his Tottenham debut in September 2017; no Premier League player has given away more.
- Harry Kane's first minute opener for Spurs was his 150th goal involvement in the Premier League in what is his 191st appearance in the competition (131 goals, 19 assists).
- Tottenham’s Harry Kane is the third opposition player to score inside 60 seconds at Anfield in a Premier League game, after Matt Elliott for Leicester in August 1997 and Olivier Dacourt for Everton in April 1999.
- Tottenham striker Harry Kane has scored three goals in the opening minute of Premier League games: no player has scored more (also, Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott).
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