Liverpool stumble as Allardyce's West Brom snatch draw at Anfield

The Baggies stay second backside of the desk, however gave their probabilities of survival an enormous increase by changing into the primary visiting aspect to take even a degree at Anfield within the league this season in Sam Allardyce’s second match in cost.

Sadio Mane had given Liverpool a 12th minute lead, however Jurgen Klopp’s males lived to remorse not making extra of a dominant first-half show to present the chasing pack within the title race an sudden increase.

The defending champions transfer three factors clear on the prime of the desk, however simply 4 factors separate Everton in second from Southampton in ninth.

Allardyce was the final visiting supervisor to win a Premier League sport at Anfield, when in control of Crystal Palace again in April 2017, and the previous England supervisor is now unbeaten in his final 4 away video games in opposition to Klopp’s males with three completely different golf equipment.

The Baggies got down to restrict the kind of harm suffered by Crystal Palace in a 7-Zero hammering inflicted by Liverpool final weekend, however might barely get out of their half earlier than the break.

Mane ended his longest drought of 9 video games and not using a objective as a Liverpool participant in opposition to Palace and confirmed his sharpness in entrance of objective is again with an excellent contact to manage and end from Joel Matip’s cross on 12 minutes.

That might and will have opened the floodgates for Klopp’s males given their degree of management earlier than the break.

A sequence of harmful crosses from Andy Robertson failed to seek out the completion, whereas Mane headed simply extensive from Jordan Henderson’s supply.

Nonetheless, Liverpool’s failure to place the sport past West Brom’s attain led to a nervy second-half.

The Reds suffered one other damage blow at centre-back as Matip pulled up with a muscle drawback and had to get replaced by 19-year-old Rhys Williams with Virgil Van Dijk and Joe Gomez long-term damage absentees.

Williams was penalised for an innocuous foul along with his first involvement, sparking a livid response from Klopp, which noticed the German booked by referee Kevin Buddy.

Regardless of their lowly place within the desk, West Brom have already taken factors off Manchester Metropolis and Chelsea this season and have been extraordinarily unlucky to not take at the very least a degree away to Manchester United.

Allardyce’s sport plan to remain within the sport so long as attainable labored to perfection as West Brom started to threaten within the last quarter.

Karlan Grant outpaced Williams to burst clear on objective 20 minutes from time, however Alisson Becker unfold himself brilliantly to dam.

Ajayi was denied his first Premier League objective when his strike away to Metropolis in a 1-1 draw earlier this month was credited as a Ruben Dias personal objective.

However he repeated the trick and this time received the credit score with a robust header in off the within of the publish that this time left Alisson helpless.

Liverpool have made a behavior of profitable video games late previously two seasons, most lately when Roberto Firmino’s damage time header beat Tottenham 2-1 of their final outing at Anfield.

The Brazilian practically did it once more on the demise, however his downward header was brilliantly saved by Sam Johnstone.

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