Sunday, 31 March 2019

Last-minute winner keeps Reds' title challenge going

Just as it appeared Liverpool were in danger of throwing it away in this swirling Anfield wind, Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld inadvertently nudged the ball over his own goal-line. Liverpool went back to the top of the Table.

That came in the 90th minute, soon after Moussa Sissoko had missed the kind of gilt-edged chance that surely he had take and which would have meant Spurs ran out winners rather than Liverpool who, once again, are two points clear having played a game more than City.

It came as the ball was swung in deep with Mohamed Salah directing a header goalwards. It bounced off Alderweireld and trickled over the line to spark remarkable scenes of relief and celebration. Just how crucial, how big will that moment prove to be?
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