Manchester United have displayed among the spine supervisor Ruben Amorim had been demanding as they scored their first targets at Anfield since 2018 to earn a 2-2 draw in opposition to Premier League leaders Liverpool.
Residence followers had been gearing as much as taunt their greatest rivals on Sunday as Arne Slot’s facet had been simply 10 minutes away from going eight factors away from Arsenal on the prime with a match in hand.
However Amad Diallo stabbed dwelling Alejandro Garnacho’s cross – including to Lisandro Martinez’s first purpose in two years – within the eightieth minute to earn them a degree, after United had conceded the result in path 2-1 when Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah’s penalty turned issues round.
The draw halted United’s four-game shedding run however coach Ruben Amorim was nonetheless sad, shrugging: “It’s a degree, a deserved level, nevertheless it’s only one level, and we should always get mad. Right this moment we needs to be actually disenchanted.”
Liverpool’s princely defender Virgil van Dijk was sad too. “The best way we conceded the 2 targets was unacceptable, lazy and careless, it shouldn’t occur,” he stated.
Certainly, whereas the match introduced the very best out of United from a resilience perspective, it didn’t appear to have the identical impact on the hosts, who had been gradual off the mark in a sport solely given the go-ahead at noon after heavy snow on Merseyside.
However high quality endures and after a lacklustre first half Liverpool stepped issues up after Martinez’s fierce angled strike beat Alisson Becker and went in off the crossbar.
It was exemplified first by Gakpo, who scored his tenth purpose in his final 15 appearances by slicing in on his proper foot – sending Matthijs de Ligt sliding off the pitch – to smash a shot previous Andre Onana.
However the coup de grace appeared to have been utilized by Salah, whose 18th purpose of the season noticed him draw degree with Thierry Henry in joint-seventh place on the all-time Premier League goalscorers chart with 175 targets.
Mac Allister’s header from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross hit De Ligt’s raised left arm and though referee Michael Oliver performed on he was knowledgeable by VAR he ought to view the monitor and he subsequently modified his thoughts.
Onana, who had engaged in some pre-penalty shenanigans with plenty of Liverpool gamers, guessed the correct method however Salah’s shot was too highly effective for him.
Often, that may be that – particularly in opposition to a United facet who had misplaced their final three league video games with out scoring – however Diallo nipped in entrance of Andy Robertson to grab a degree.
Diallo had additionally struck on the finish of additional time when United beat Liverpool 4-3 in a dramatic FA Cup conflict final season, and was their hero with a Ninetieth-minute winner in opposition to Manchester Metropolis final month.
In one other dramatic match earlier on Sunday, Raul Jimenez scored a 91st-minute penalty to salvage a 2-2 draw for Fulham at dwelling to Ipswich.
Relegation-fighting Ipswich went forward via Sam Szmodics within the thirty eighth and Jimenez levelled from his first spot-kick within the 69th.
Ipswich went in entrance once more via Liam Delap’s penalty within the 71st however when Jimenez was introduced down by Leif Davis within the field, referee Darren Bond pointed to the spot once more and the Mexican made no mistake.
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