Alexis Mac Allister scored the successful aim within the 97th minute to present Liverpool a 1-0 victory over Nottingham Forest as Vitor Pereira made a dramatic return to the Premier League along with his new membership.
The Argentine had already been dominated out of the favorites eight minutes into the sport, however was within the excellent place to earn Liverpool the three factors they wanted to stage with fourth-placed Chelsea.
Forest had been trying to widen their lead by 5 factors above the relegation zone, and Callum Hudson-Odoi held off Dominik Szoboszlai within the lead within the first half, however his shot was saved by Alisson.
When the hosts didn’t capitalize on their possibilities within the first half, Elliott Anderson additionally hit a low drive on the right track as Liverpool took management within the second half.
Curtis Jones, who was introduced on after Florian Wirtz was injured in the course of the warm-up, had a shot from shut vary that was properly saved by Stefan Ortega.
Nevertheless it wasn’t till the tip that they actually turned the screws. Hugo Ekitike’s header was parried away by Ortega, Ola Aina’s clearance bounced off Mac Allister’s elbow and over the road, and the aim was disallowed by VAR evaluation.
However Mac Allister did not drop his head and slipped within the rebound of a header saved by Virgil van Dijk from shut vary, and the aim survived a VAR examine for offside on a defender.
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Information report: Liverpool discover a approach
Final season, Liverpool discovered a solution to win video games that regarded like they might have gotten away with it, and so they confirmed that when once more on the Metropolis Floor.
At 96 minutes and 10 seconds, the Reds scored the fourth slowest successful aim in Premier League historical past (2006-07), with two of these 4 targets coming within the win towards Forest on this competitors.
It was additionally the forty eighth time on this competitors that they’ve scored the successful aim within the ninetieth minute (or later), at the very least 12 greater than some other membership.
Mac Allister completed 27 league video games with out scoring. He added an anticipated targets (xG) of 0.72 to Liverpool’s whole targets tally of 1.76, scoring with solely photographs on the right track.
