LIVERPOOL 2-1 BRIGHTON: The Reds hosted Brighton at Anfield in a must-win game on Sunday afternoon.
Liverpool shot to the top of the Premier League table with a hard-earned 2-1 victory over Brighton ahead of Manchester City’s vital showdown with Arsenal on Sunday afternoon. Time was ticking down in the second half by the time Mohamed Salah dispatched the decisive strike, piling the pressure back on Jurgen Klopp’s title rivals.
Former Manchester United striker Danny Welbeck notched inside 90 seconds on Merseyside – the quickest a visiting player has netted at Anfield since 2019. Despite the shaky start, Liverpool rallied and worked their way back into the contest.
Enjoying the lion’s share of possession, the hosts were level when Luis Diaz poked home midway through the first period, but their defence was not as solid as Klopp will have hoped, leaving big spaces for Brighton to exploit on the counter-attack.
The match was on a knife edge until former Seagulls star Alexis Mac Allister – the first and best of Liverpool’s standout trio – brilliantly slid a pass between the lines to Salah, who slotted home with trademark efficiency to make it 2-1.
Mac Allister put in as classy a performance as he ever has in a Liverpool shirt, seeing plenty of the ball and completing the vast majority of his passes, despite not always playing it safe.
Signing in a £35million deal from Brighton last summer, the Argentine looks right at home in one of the Premier League’s title-chasing sides and has proved himself to be one of the acquisitions of the season.
