Premier League roundup: Faes’ own goals hand Liverpool win; West Ham loses again
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Leicester defender Wout Faes had a night to overlook as Liverpool ended the 12 months by closing the hole to the Premier League’s prime 4.
Faes turned simply the fourth participant to attain two personal objectives in a Premier League sport, serving to Liverpool come from behind to beat Leicester 2-1 on Friday in a match marked by defensive errors from each side.
After a tricky begin to the season, Liverpool is now simply two factors behind fourth-place Tottenham heading into 2023 following a run of 4 straight wins.
West Ham, in the meantime, is observing a disaster after a fifth straight loss. David Moyes’ workforce conceded two objectives towards the run of play to lose 2-0 at dwelling towards Brentford, and the London membership might discover itself in final place as soon as the remainder of the weekend video games are performed.
Both video games began with a tribute to Pele, who died Thursday on the age of 82, as will the remainder of the weekend fixtures.
At Anfield, Liverpool gifted the hosts the lead within the fourth minute with some calamitous defending as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was allowed to run straight down the center of the pitch unopposed after a protracted purpose kick to chip the ball over Alisson Becker.
But on an evening when Liverpool’s forwards have been repeatedly off track, they obtained some a lot wanted assist from Faes.
The Belgian centre-back had disastrous seven-minute spell earlier than halftime as he first ignored a shout from his goalkeeper Danny Ward to depart a low cross from Alexander-Arnold and lunged in to make an tried clearance, solely to mishit the ball so it looped over Ward and in on the far put up.
Darwin Nunez was then performed by means of on purpose by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and dinked a shot over Ward that bounced again off the far put up. The back-tracking Faes tried to clear the ball however solely succeeded in hammering it into the web — after which needed to endure taunts of “shoot” from the Liverpool followers each time he touched the ball.
“He’s a strong character, and he will get over that this evening,” Leicester supervisor Brendan Rodgers mentioned.
It was removed from a classic efficiency from Jurgen Klopp’s workforce however Liverpool now has 4 successive league victories for the primary time since April.
“It’s all about getting three points and trying to get into a position in the league where we feel like we need to be and haven’t been this season,” Liverpool defender Trent Alexander Arnold said. “These are the ones that you look back on and know that you needed to win it. Whether you win well or ugly, it doesn’t really matter.”
West Ham can be very happy to get an unpleasant win, after outplaying Brentford for giant elements of the sport and nonetheless shedding.
The workforce was booed off the sphere after first-half objectives from Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva inflicted one other damaging loss on Moyes.
“I thought we played well today,” Moyes said. “The goals were completely against the run of play, we’ve lost two goals to throw-ins. We made a lot of opportunities, we just couldn’t take them.”
Brentford climbed to ninth, though the win was got here at a price as Toney left on a stretcher in stoppage time after touchdown awkwardly.
“He had some pain, hopefully nothing serious,” Brentford said of Toney, who scored his 13th goal of the season. “It is something with the knee, we hope it is nothing serious.”
