The leaders of Al Ittihad tried to hypnotize the Reds with crazy offers and Mohamed Salah joined the army of stars in the Middle East, but Liverpool remained immune to the Saudi zeros and preserved their “x factor”.
The proof that the Liverpool’s decision was correct arrived today, in the form of a convincing victory against Aston Villa 3:0 (2:0). directed by the Egyptian pharaoh.
Liverpool took off after the first round of the Premier League and ignited the imagination of the fans with four successive triumphs. Everton, Burnley and Hibernian (in the play-offs for the Europa League) fell to their knees, but a collision with the giants from Anfield brought them back to earth.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the teeth, Mike Tyson mentioned on more than one occasion, so even today, Dominik Szoboszlai threw all of Unai Emery’s ideas into the water. In the third minute of the match, the Hungarian received the ball from Alexander Arnold, created space for himself to shoot and launched a rocket into the net of Martinez.
Liverpool smelled blood after an early goal and continued to terrorize Aston Villa’s defense. They soon reached the second goal, which was scored by Darwin Núñez. However, the Uruguayan footballer did not write his name on the list of scorers, as he shook the post instead of the net, but the clumsy Matty Cash ran onto the rebound and scored an own goal.
It all started with a tricky pass by Mohamed Salah, who later became one of the scorers himself. Núñez later managed to hit the goal frame twice more, but he redeemed himself for his misses in the 55th minute, when he used the Egyptian after a corner, and he reacted without error and knocked out the Hatters – 3:0.
The result did not change until the end, although Liverpool’s Salah had the opportunity to be one of the scorers, and on the other side, John Duran missed the chance to reduce the score.
In the same period, Crystal Palace defeated Wolverhampton with a score of 3:2 (0:0).
All four goals were scored in the second half. The home team took the lead in the 56th minute through Odsonne Édouard, the Korean Hwang equalized ten minutes later, and Eberechi Eze and Eduard brought victory to Palace with their second goal of the match. Cunha reduced the score to 3:2, but there was no more time for the Wolves.
