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Liverpool find scoring backup to beat Brentford 3-0 in EPL

January 16, 2022
Henry Club

Liverpool needed essential goal-scoring options in the absence of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane as their stand-ins stepped up in a 3-0 Premier League win over Brentford on Sunday.

Midfielder Fabinho proved an unlikely solution with his third goal in eight days with the opener just before halftime. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and substitute Takumi Minamino scored in the second half.

Thursday’s 0-0 draw against 10-man Arsenal in the League Cup raised questions about how Jurgen Klopp’s side will cope while Salah and Mane remain in the African Cup of Nations, but the result has left more to come for weeks to come. offered more hope.

With a first clean sheet in five league matches and a first league win since mid-December, Liverpool moved above second-placed Chelsea, but with a game in hand, 11 points behind Manchester City.

Corners have proved to be an area of ​​despair in recent weeks for Liverpool, rarely threatened at all. So coming off the set-piece was something of a boost for the opener.

Trent Alexander-Arnold produced his 10th assist in 21 games, leading Fabinho to the home side in the 44th minute at the away post.

Since the start of the 2018–19 season, only Bayern Munich’s Thomas Muller (64) and Paris Saint-Germain’s Lionel Messi (47) have had more assists in Europe’s big five leagues than the right-back (42).

Brian Mbumo missed an opportunity to equalize at the start of the second half when he missed the goal with only goalkeeper Alison Baker to score.

Liverpool’s second goal eventually came in the 69th minute when Andy Robertson’s left wing cross was found on the far post from Oxlade-Chamberlain’s diving header.

It was his final intervention when Klopp walked away with an ankle injury to further aggravate the headache.

But his replacement, Minamino, made an immediate impact by side-footing the ball into the net in the 77th after a mistake in the Brentford defence.

The London club finished 10 points above the relegation zone.

Harrison’s hat-trick helps Leeds win 3-2 at West Ham in EPL

Jack Harrison scored a hat-trick as he crossed Leeds’ long list to beat West Ham 3-2 in the Premier League on Sunday.

West Ham made two comebacks through Jarrod Bowen and Pablo Fornals, but Harrison’s third goal ended the London club’s four-match winning streak.

Leeds traveled to West Ham without nine first-team players – and two others were injured before halftime – and had seven teenagers, including 15-year-old Archie Grey, on the bench.

But unlike Arsenal, which saw Sunday’s game at Tottenham postponed due to a player shortage, Leeds manager Marcelo Bilsa said “we have no reason to ask for it” to be called off.

The number of hammers is too low, Tomas Sousek is missing. COVID-19 Again, and three matches a week caught up with him.

Leeds took the lead in the 10th minute. Luke Ayling’s ball at the top cleared Rafinha to the right and his cutback found Mateusz Cliché in the area. Kilch’s shot was beaten by goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, but Adam Forshaw was first to loose the ball and put Harrison back over the net.

Leeds’ injury problems deepened in the middle of the first half, when Forshaw and Junior Firpo both went limping.

West Ham leveled in 34th, with Bowen slipping Stuart Dallas to put Aaron Cresswell’s corner into the net.

Leeds almost immediately regained the lead when Ayling flicked Rafina to a corner and Harrison jumped to the far post.

Dan James had a chance to extend the advantage twice in the stoppage time of the first half, but he fired a direct shot at Fabianski and then gave him another chance.

Instead, West Ham leveled again in the second half at seven minutes, when Fornals got past Ayling and Pascal Struijk in the field before hitting Leeds goalkeeper Ilan Messlier the wrong way with a clever finish.

However, the match again got in the way of Leeds at the hour mark after Nikola Vlasic lost possession of the halfway line. Rafinha galloped forward and bowled a brilliant throughball to Harrison, who skillfully lifted his shot on Fabianski to complete a treble.

Leeds moved up nine points from the relegation zone. West Ham finished fourth, two points ahead of Arsenal in two more games.

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