Liverpool star Virgil van Dijk loses first game at Anfield after Leeds’ shock 2-1 win as boss Jurgen Klopp slams defending for Crysencio Summerville’s late winner as he rages ‘now we have nothing’
Virgil van Dijk’s 70-game unbeaten record at Anfield has finally come to an end as Liverpool were beaten 2-1 by Leeds in dramatic fashion.
Crysencio Summerville popped with an 89th minute winner in Merseyside to make it back-to-back Premier League defeats for the Reds.
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Rodrigo fired the visitors into a fourth minute lead after capitalising on Joe Gomez’s overhit backpass.
Goalkeeper Alisson then slipped as he looked to clear the ball, allowing the Spanish striker to tap home into an empty net.
Mohamed Salah then equalised shortly after, before Summerville fired past Alisson in the closing stages of the match to seal a famous Leeds victory.
Leeds’ first win at Anfield since 2001 has lifted them out of the bottom three, with Van Dijk suffering his first home defeat since joining Liverpool.
Since arriving from Southampton, the Dutch defender had won 59 matches and drawn 11 heading into Saturday night’s clash with Leeds.
And few would have expected it to be the Whites that ended his record, with boss Jesse Marsch on the brink of losing his job prior to the fixture.
Speaking after the match, Klopp bemoaned his side’s poor defending for Summerville’s late winner to leave Liverpool ninth in the table.
Speaking to Sky Sports, the German gaffer said: “It was a set-back, absolutely. I thought we had a really good start then conceded a freakish goal.
“We scored the equaliser but for some reason it didn’t give us the security back. We struggled to control the game and gave too many balls away.
“The boys tried, we had good possession and had big chances but, in the end, if it is 1-1 and you defend the situation around the second goal like this, you leave everything open.
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“In the end, it was two versus one in the box and they can finish off the situation.
“The problem is we cannot control this type of game at the moment.”
Asked whether individual errors cost them the match, he added: “A team performance is always made up of individual performances. One leads to the other.
“You can watch this game completely, you cannot defend like we did for the second goal but we did, that’s why we lost.
“Otherwise, it would have been a point and we go from there. Now we have nothing and it feels completely different.”
Alisson then shouldered some of the blame as he insisted he should have kept out Summerville’s low effort.
He remarked: “We have to think a lot about what we did wrong tonight.
“The two goals we conceded we shouldn’t concede. I should have saved the second goal.
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“We had opportunities up front. We are really disappointed for this result.
“This is the Premier League. We don’t have time to breathe. We have to fight game after game.
“When you have bad results at home when you need points it’s frustrating but we cannot allow to have that frustration in the next game.”
October 30, 2022 at 02:48AM Premier League Table, Fixtures, News, Results, Opinion - talkSPORT https://ift.tt/YdKSaNr
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