Nottingham: Liverpool’s mini-revival got here to a crashing halt with a 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Woodland, who secured simply their 2nd Premier League win for 23 years due to Taiwo Awoniyi’s function. Awoniyi spent six years as a Liverpool participant with out ever making an look as he used to be farmed out on a sequence of mortgage spells, however got here again to hang-out his former membership and transfer his present employers off the ground of the desk.
Woodland have stayed affected person with supervisor Steve Cooper, even handing the previous Swansea boss a brand new contract, as he tries to mattress in a file 23 new signings in a single switch window for a Premier League staff. The 2-time Ecu champions are slowly starting to see some go back on that funding after additionally withstanding a bombardment from Brighton to attract 0-0 on the Amex midweek.
Klopp made 5 adjustments in all from Liverpool’s win over West Ham on Wednesday midweek and it confirmed in a disjointed first 1/2 efficiency as Liverpool struggled to make over 70 % ownership inform with regards to probabilities. The guests’ highest alternative to damage the impasse earlier than half-time got here from a nook when Virgil van Dijk inexplicably attempted to go the ball within the route of Roberto Firmino relatively than opt for function himself from shut vary with a unfastened header.
Ten mins into the second one duration it used to be Woodland who struck from a suite piece as Ryan Yates’ preliminary effort got here backpedal the submit and Awoniyi used to be completely positioned to faucet into an unguarded internet. Set-pieces remained Liverpool’s highest path to a function as Firmino headed large from a nook earlier than Van Dijk’s effort from a Trent-Alexander Arnold free-kick used to be smartly stored by means of Dean Henderson. On the different finish, Alisson Becker stored Liverpool within the sport with saves from Brennan Johnson and Morgan Gibbs-White as Woodland had a number of probabilities to kill the sport off at the counter-attack.
However Woodland held out to the satisfaction of a packed area on the Town Floor to transport inside of one level of transferring out of the ground 3. A 3rd league defeat of the season leaves Liverpool nonetheless in 7th, 11 issues adrift of leaders Arsenal having performed a sport extra.