Tottenham 1-2 Liverpool: Why Reds' win may prove vital

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp yet got the trademark fist-pump retired again aft they survived a belated Tottenham siege to bask the luxury of back-to-back victories.

Klopp's squad were surviving connected their nerves successful the closing stages of Sunday's 2-1 win, the archetypal connected their travels successful the league this season, but the post-match celebrations with manager and players successful beforehand of Liverpool's fans was a objection of the value of these 3 points.

Victory implicit Napoli successful the Champions League was satisfying arsenic it was against 1 of Europe's in-form teams and helped staunch the wounds of successive league defeats astatine struggling Nottingham Forest past to Leeds United astatine Anfield.

Some of the existent Liverpool stood up against Napoli, though it was wrong the discourse of what was efficaciously a dormant rubber with the radical placings already decided barring a singular turnaround.

Liverpool's triumph astatine Spurs carried greater value arsenic it was against opponents who proved a occupation past season, their precocious gully astatine Anfield important successful the last reckoning arsenic Manchester City won the rubric by 1 constituent connected the concluding time of the season.

And with Arsenal and Manchester City threatening to unfastened up a spread astatine the apical of the table, this whitethorn beryllium a captious triumph arsenic the conflict for apical 4 places develops aft the World Cup break.

The cardinal for Klopp and Liverpool present is consistency. The existent Liverpool indispensable not conscionable basal up occasionally. They indispensable look connected a regular ground and this has been beyond them this season.

Liverpool looked to person kicked into cogwheel with triumph implicit champions Manchester City and West Ham United astatine Anfield lone to travel it up with 2 desperately mediocre league results.

But wherever determination is Mohamed Salah, determination is ever hope.

He is close backmost to his champion aft a dilatory commencement to the season, seemingly successful a much restricted right-flank role, but helium has been deadly successful caller weeks.

Salah's 2 first-half goals showed his satellite people and enactment him seventh successful the all-time database of Liverpool's league scorers with 124 goals.

Liverpool had been exploiting wide unfastened spaces connected the Spurs close flank from the kick-off and this was the way to Salah's archetypal goal, but the mode successful which helium controlled Darwin Nunez's walk successful an instant earlier flashing a left-footed decorativeness past Hugo Lloris was magical.

Salah's 2nd was a acquisition from Eric Dier's misplaced header backmost to Lloris but helium showed composure past cleanable method to loft a decorativeness implicit the Frenchman, the shot astir moving successful dilatory question arsenic it floated towards the backmost of the net.

Liverpool brag Jurgen Klopp reacts aft his side's triumph implicit Tottenham

Nunez was besides a superior menace successful the archetypal fractional and enactment successful specified a tireless displacement that helium afloat deserved his lasting ovation erstwhile helium was substituted precocious on.

Liverpool were penned backmost aft the interruption but with goalkeeper Alisson outstanding and Ibrahima Konate a rock, they showed a resilience that has been mysteriously missing astatine times this play to unafraid the 3 points that released the elation astatine the last whistle.

They present person the accidental to spell into the World Cup interruption connected a precocious with a location crippled against struggling Southampton.

Spurs yet again made a dilatory start. This was the sixth successive crippled successful which they person gone behind, the 13th successful 20 matches successful each competitions.

It is unsustainable and, coupled with unforced errors similar that produced by Dier, determination volition beryllium occasions erstwhile the spread is excessively heavy for them to excavation themselves retired of and this was 1 of them.

Spurs really responded good to going down but Dier's mistake was fatal for their hopes. Defensively they look susceptible portion Lloris, for each his glowing reputation, inactive remains prone to mistakes.

Antonio Conte's broadside turned up the tempo aft the interruption and could easy person secured a draw, with Ivan Perisic hitting the woodwork successful each half, and Spurs surely had a passable punishment assertion ignored erstwhile Ryan Sessegnon appeared to beryllium pushed to the crushed successful the country by Trent Alexander-Arnold successful the archetypal period.

Spurs simply gave themselves excessively overmuch to do, particularly arsenic they were missing the injured Son Heung-min and Richarlison, portion the talented Dejan Kulusevski lone returned arsenic a substitute here, instantly showing his prime and what they person been missing by mounting up a extremity for Harry Kane.

This was Liverpool's day. It was the benignant of effect that was commonplace erstwhile they were close astatine their best. They were not astatine their champion astatine Spurs but inactive had capable menace successful the signifier of Salah to get themselves a pb past showed capable resilience to support Conte's broadside astatine bay.

It indispensable present beryllium Liverpool's template for the remainder of the season.

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