Virgil van Dijk and ahead Mohamed Salah scored second-half objectives as Liverpool battled to a 2-0 Premier League residence win over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday to spice up its hopes of European soccer subsequent season.
Liverpool climbed into the sixth spot within the desk on 39 factors, forward of Fulham on objective distinction and with a recreation in hand, however the residence facet was pressured to work onerous on a wet night time at Anfield.
Despite fashioning the primary effort on objective within the recreation, the customer suffered an early blow when left-back Hugo Bueno went down clutching his hamstring halfway by way of the primary half and was changed by Rayan Ait-Nouri.
The greatest probabilities of the opening 45 minutes fell to teenaged Liverpool midfielder Harvey Elliott, who steered a header simply vast within the thirty ninth minute and adopted that up with a bouncing stoppage-time shot that was turned away for a nook.
The 19-year-old was within the thick of issues once more 10 minutes into the second half, controlling a agency cross from Darwin Nunez and firing one other shot goalwards, however once more it lacked the mandatory energy and precision and was simply saved by Jose Sa.
Nunez had the ball within the web for the house facet within the 66th minute after a surging run by Diogo Jota, however the Portuguese striker was deemed to have fouled Max Kilman within the build-up after a VAR assessment and the objective was chalked off.
Van Dijk lastly broke the impasse within the 73rd minute, forcing a save along with his preliminary header from a set-piece, earlier than Jota put the rebound again throughout the objective for the Dutchman to move residence from shut vary.
Four minutes later Salah used his proper thigh to steer residence a cross from Kostas Tsimikas to double his facet’s benefit and take the wind out of the guests’ sails as Liverpool made it three wins of their final 4 Premier League video games.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com