The good news for Liverpool is that it can be as difficult as possible. The only team wishing to deny them as bad as Everton by the end of the season is Arsenal and when they visit Anfield on May 10, this title race can be almost finished.
It was difficult for Liverpool. It was really difficult. In the depths of injury time – roughly when Everton obtained them to Goodison in mid -February – the nerves that threatened to have Liverpool derailed in the first half were back and they gave the ball and invited the pressure. At death, Everton won a corner. The goalkeeper Jordan Pickford Advanced and Anfield have inhaled. He did not come to nothing and Anfield expired. And a minute later, it was over. A major obstacle surmounted, a large step taken.
Liverpool also deserved this victory. They were far from their best, but they improved as the match progressed and the goal of Diogo Jota who won the match just before the time was very good.
And then now, they are a little closer to paradise, in a second English title in 35 years. The advance on Arsenal is again 12 points and now Liverpool needs four victories and not five. On Sunday, Arne Slot and his team are in Fulham 24 hours after Arsenal in Everton. This is how it tends to work at this stage of the season. After you, sir.
Everton has made the greatest number to deny them here. Captain James Tarkowski should have been sent early, but that was not the case, with Virgil Van Dijk asleep during the half hour, striker Beto struck a job.
The game was anyone at that time. It was disjointed and without direction. So there was sometimes Liverpool. But the crucial part is that they settled. They played their football. They have improved. This is what counted.
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Liverpool was nervous, it was clear. Slot players – exhorted by their manager in advance to play with the missing energy in the final of the Carabao Cup – seemed worried in the tunnel beforehand. Mo Salah – On his hips by the wall – particularly seemed it.
They did not save Jordan Pickford’s note in the first 45 minutes. The goalkeeper of Everton and England aligned a head of Salah with the distant post in the 28th minute and caught a deviated shot from Ryan Gravenberch with a similar ease 15 minutes later.
Outside, it was quite simple for Everton, sitting deep with a five -five bank in front of one of the four, they forced Liverpool to play all their football in front of them. It was only occasionally that the home team looked like a pass in the blue rows. More often than not, they tried to move the ball largely to Salah or Luis Diaz and on most of these occasions, the crosses that followed simply returned to them.
Liverpool actually had the chance not to be late after 45 minutes, Beto ran free to hit a job for Everton. Likewise, Everton should have fallen to ten men at the start.
James Tarkowski – The marker of Everton’s equalizer in the 98th minute at Goodison Park a month and a half ago – took the ball proper when he challenged Alexis Macalister 22 meters from the goal, but his follow -up was reckless and he was not in control while he was slamming directly through the Liverpool Man with stallions. Referee Sam Barrott showed Captain of Everton a yellow card and Var had a glance to decide that punishment was sufficient.
Tarkowski is not a dirty player but he was lucky here. It was a fairly terrible challenge.
Liverpool sought to take a momentum afterwards but had trouble. Dominik Szoboszlai derived the free kick which followed this wide incident while in construction, there was a beautiful block of Jarrad Branthwaite while Diogo Jota seemed ready to worry Pickford.
There was the other occasional moment to concern Everton but the threat of Liverpool. They were too often on the wrong side of the fine margins and which betrayed their anxiety.
A major subject of discussion came first half when James Tarkowski avoided a red card
Tarkowski had been reserved for his challenge on Alexis Mac Allister and Var did not upgrade him
Beto had caused Liverpool’s defense problems and had a goal in the first half refused for offside
Everton, meanwhile, was asserted on the counter. Virgil Van Dijk spent a bad night and he was embarrassed twice by the Portuguese striker Beto.
First of all, in the 21st minute, Beto embarrassed his opponent to put the ball in the net but was an offside foot.
Then, 12 minutes later, he made fun of the Liverpool skipper once again to slam his shot against the post when it seemed easier to score.
Liverpool had to improve and they did it. The first 20 minutes of the second half saw their football improve in its speed and determination.
Their movement was better, and as such, they started to benefit from the Kinf of Broken Play on which they thrive.
Their sets were poor. The corner after the area was wasted. But from the open game, they started to threaten more regularly.
Gravenberch made Pickford Parry at 25 meters while Salah sniffed the rebound. Then Jota had a shot on the turn was blocked before Salah ended up in the back to cross dangerously.
Everton was starting to blow as the hour approaches. Hunting a football can do that to you. And then, in the 57th minute, Liverpool scored.
Beto also saw an effort hitting the post when he gave Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate a hot period
Everton was compact and generally chained Liverpool’s attack stars like Mohamed Salah
But it was a huge victory for the men of Arne Slot as they approach the title of Premier League
By once again taking a loose ball in space, Liverpool moved it to Diaz on the edge of the penalty surface. He was offside but knew that it did not join them until the game was recycled.
When he did it, he managed to feed Jota and the little striker made his way towards the space towards the bad pickford of the foot and to mark low in the center of the goal with his right foot. Anfield was suddenly alive, energized by a release of pressure.
Everton did not throw the kitchen sink immediately. Moyes chose to stay in the game, then made his substitutions late at night when he was trying to tear off something.
It was not the worst tactic and since Liverpool could not find a second goal, it assured that we had a tense finish.
Diaz seems to seal the match in the 82nd minute after a neat touch and go from the replacement Darwin Nunez gave him to the space. This time, Pickford saved his feet.
While the game entered its pangs, Everton had not created luck since Beto hit the job almost an hour earlier. This sums up the way in which the second half took place.
