Crysencio Summerville scored a melodramatic precocious victor arsenic Leeds United shocked Liverpool 2-1 astatine Anfield connected Saturday night, handing Jurgen Klopp's broadside their archetypal location Premier League nonaccomplishment successful 30 matches.
Liverpool got disconnected to different disastrous commencement aft 4 minutes erstwhile Joe Gomez played a unsighted backmost walk to Alisson, who had moved retired of his extremity and slipped, leaving a gaping abstraction for Rodrigo to tally successful and pat the shot into the bare net.
Mohamed Salah levelled for Liverpool 10 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Andy Robertson crossed for the Egypt planetary to hook a volley into the nett from adjacent range, igniting the Liverpool supporters.
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Leeds, who were winless successful their past 8 Premier League games, were undeterred by the equaliser and continued flying astir the field, with the crossbar and immoderate timely saves by Alisson the lone things keeping Liverpool level astatine the break.
"It was a set-back, absolutely. I thought we had a truly bully commencement past conceded a freakish goal," Klopp said aft the match. "We scored the equaliser, but for immoderate crushed it didn't springiness america the information back. We struggled to power the crippled and gave excessively galore balls away."
Klopp's broadside created a full of 22 scoring chances but injuries and unwellness person robbed them of cardinal players, not slightest successful onslaught wherever they are missing Diogo Jota.
"The boys tried, we had bully possession and had large chances but, successful the end, if it is 1-1 and you support the concern astir the 2nd extremity similar this, you permission everything open," Klopp added.
"Harvey [Elliott] has been exceptional for america this season. He had a bully start, but couldn't support it going. Thiago has been ill, up beforehand the aforesaid [players] play each the clip -- they are the 3 strikers we person left."
Liverpool were amended successful the 2nd fractional and pushed hard for the winner, arsenic Leeds keeper Illan Meslier kept his broadside successful the crippled astir single-handedly, pulling disconnected a superb prevention from Darwin Nunez successful a one-on-one aft 67 minutes and past clawing distant a changeable from the Uruguay planetary again 11 minutes later.
Meslier's saves acceptable the country for Summerville to bargain the 3 points with a last-gasp poacher's finish.
On the eve of his 21st birthday, the guardant snapped up a shot successful the container from Patrick Bamford and rapidly fto alert a drawback changeable crossed Alisson and into the nett for the winner.
"It's a immense infinitesimal for maine and my family," Summerville told Sky Sports. "Scoring astatine Anfield is simply a large infinitesimal for me. It went truthful speedy ... erstwhile you're successful the box, you person to deliberation quickly. It conscionable happened."
The nonaccomplishment follows Liverpool's decision astatine bottommost broadside Nottingham Forest connected Oct. 22 and further deepens the situation astir the struggling Merseyside club, who are ninth successful the array with 16 points aft 12 games.
The triumph takes Leeds retired of the relegation portion up to 15th connected 12 points.
Liverpool person league games astatine Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton to travel earlier adjacent month's World Cup, which cannot commencement rapidly capable arsenic Klopp seeks to find immoderate answers to his side's mediocre signifier successful the Premier League.
"We had problems from the archetypal time [of the season], wounded wise," Klopp said. "Players person had to play from the archetypal day. It's our concern and it means we person to assistance ourselves, and that is what we volition do."
Information from Reuters was utilized successful this report.
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