Brighton is scoring hat-tricks at Anfield vs Liver!
They are accustomed to the No. 11 scoring hat-tricks at Anfield. It is just that it is normally Mohamed Salah,
rather than Leandro Trossard. Yet the Belgian garnished Roberto De Zerbi’s bow as Brighton manager with a historic hat-trick.
Not since Arsenal’s Andrey Arshavin scored four in 2009 had a visiting player
left Anfield with a treble to his name in a Premier League game. Trossard did to ensure that,
on a day of fluctuating emotions and a rapidly shifting scoreline,
Brighton deservedly avoided defeat.
Liverpool – Brighton – Played on 10/01/2022
For De Zerbi,
it seemed an ideal start when his side surged into a 2-0 lead;
perhaps it was too good to be true,
and Liverpool illustrated that Jurgen Klopp did not brand them “mentality monsters” for nothing with a terrific response to their own terrible defending.
Yet when they led,
Trossard pounced with an equaliser to keep Brighton four points ahead of their hosts in the table. If De Zerbi could not claim Albion’s second notable scalp this season, after Graham Potter won at Old Trafford,
he found a way of outdoing his predecessor. Potter drew 2-2 at Anfield last season. In sharing six goals, De Zerbi took the excitement a step further.
For Liverpool,
however, it continued their worst start to a season under Klopp. They showed a fighting spirit,
but also a slipshod nature that has characterised too many of their performances this season.
They keep needing to chase games and their comeback came courtesy of Roberto and Robert:
Roberto Firmino’s brace took him to five goals in three games at Anfield and means that he is now Liverpool’s top scorer,
a development few would have predicted when Liverpool signed Darwin Nunez to join Salah.
Then Robert Sanchez blundered as the unwitting Adam Webster accidentally put Liverpool ahead; it was probably not what De Zerbi
intended when he said the centre-backs were the most important players in his squad.
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If nothing else,
it illustrated that costly defensive mistakes were not confined to Trent Alexander-Arnold on a chastening day. The chances are that Gareth Southgate’s mind is already made up,
but this was not a persuasive case to take him to the World Cup.
Klopp had mounted a vehement defence of Alexander-Arnold’s defending; one answer on Friday took five minutes and 40 seconds but,
within four minutes of kick-off,
Liverpool were behind. If there are times when Alexander-Arnold’s culpability has been exaggerated, he was partly to blame for Brighton’s first two goals.
Proceedings were barely underway when Brighton were gifted
possession by his poor header; while Liverpool appealed for a foul for Moises Caicedo’s challenge on Jordan Henderson,
Danny Welbeck released Trossard with a backheel and Alexander-Arnold
was at fault for a second time as the Belgian span away from him and angled a shot beyond Alisson.
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iverpool’s habit of conceding first continued.