'This was a tough afternoon for Liverpool, made harder by a manager making the few calls he had left to make badly.' willfordy25
Alisson conceded a foul in Nottingham Forest’s six-yard box in the 93rd minute. Joe Gomez was hurling throw-ins into the area in the 95th. Liverpool were panicking at the end of a game in which they appeared to have an incredibly flawed plan against the Premier League’s worst side.
Liverpool had 76 per cent possession and Salah had 22 touches in 90 minutes. Forest sat very deep, allowing him no space to run into, with all the space out wide, where Salah has terrorised defenders in the Premier League for the last five seasons. His hair seemingly more unkempt than usual, Salah looked as baffled as a teenager woken before midday as he ploughed a lone furrow up front.
There was a feeling they may nick one at the end, but that replaced a feeling of their own defensive fallibility throughout the game. One bad pass, and there were a lot of them, seemed to result in a chance for Nottingham Forest, or at least the chance of a chance had their attack been more cohesive.supposed to be the start of his path to the World Cup with England
Having played alongside the best Premier League defender in his time with Liverpool, Gomez is often guilty of trying toVirgil van Dijk, who continues to look a shadow of his best self.