Despite the tremendous load of games he has, with five games played in the last 14 days, the Liverpool fulfilled (1-2) in his visit to Southampton and will keep the fight for the Premier League alive until next Sunday. The last two champions of English football will play for the title on the last day that will be played at a unified schedule (5:00 p.m. for all matches) and in which the ‘reds’ will receive the Wolverhampton and those of Pep Guardiola al Aston Villa of two ex ‘reds’ like Phillipe Coutinho y Steven Gerrard, who could do the team of his life a favor and hand him a title that the Anfield legend never achieved as a footballer. Neither wolves nor villains, already saved and without European aspirations for the next course, nothing is at stake on a last date that promises to be a heart attack.
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Only Alisson and Konaté repeated
Minamino y Matipfrom rebound, they turned the initial great goal of Armstrong and they gave the three points to a Liverpool which rotated massively after the 120′ disputed last Sunday in the final of the FA Cup that took, in the penalty shootout, those of Jürgen Klopp before him Chelsea. Solo Alisson y Konate they repeated in an eleven in which, of course, they were not even Van Dijk in Salahinjured at Wembley and whose goal should be to play the Champions League final against Real Madrid the next day 18.
Precisely Alisson prevented the goal of Number, which he shrunk perfectly, when not even ten minutes had been played. Although the Brazilian could do nothing in the face of the violence of the shot from Redmondwho premiered his career-making locker in the Premier League with a great goal in which the Liverpool claimed prior lack of Lyanco on Diogo Jota. Knowing that the goal of the English winger of Jamaican origin made the champion City, those in red put on work overalls and the opportunities were not long in coming. First in a shot of Firmino that ended up kissing the net but was annulled for offside and later in a timid shot from Minamino at the hands of McCarthy.
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The Japanese, with a ‘saint’ past, was in charge of keeping his team’s hopes alive finishing off a good volley of shots at the near post Diogo Jotawhich had taken advantage of the gap left by Firmino in the middle. After going through changing rooms, and already with Henderson in the green in substitution of the injured joe gomezthe Liverpool perpetuated his dominance and, in minute 48, Whom had a 1-2 that finally came in the most inhospitable way. Tsimikas he put a corner kick that combed Elyounoussi at the near post and that, almost unintentionally, slipped Matip in the goal after the one who headed, with the intention of clearing, was the local Walker-Peters.
Only a dot separates a City y Liverpoolwho must win and expect a favor from the Aston Villa to achieve the twentieth league in its history and thus match the Manchester United as the most successful team in the history of English football.
SOUTHAMPTON
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LIVERPOOL
Southampton: McCarthy; Walker-Peters, Lyanco, Stephens, Salisu, Redmond; Elyounoussi, Ward-Prowse, Diallo (Oriol Romeu, 71′), Tella (Armstrong, 71′) y Broja (Che Adams, 83′)
Liverpool: Alisson; Joe Gomez (Henderson, 46′), Matip, Konate, Tsimakas; Milner, Harvey Elliott (Origi, 65′), Curtis Jones; Minamino, Diogo Jota and Firmino (Naby Keita, 83′)
goals: 1-0 Redmond (13′), 1-1 Minamino (27′), 1-2 Matip (67′)
cards: YELLOW: Tella (69′), Stephens (74′)
Referee: Martin Atkinson
spectators: 31.588 en St. Mary’s Stadium
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