Premier League Roundup: Liverpool falls to Bournemouth in stunning loss
BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) — After shedding 9-0 at Liverpool earlier this season, Bournemouth obtained some payback within the Premier League on Saturday.
Bournemouth halted Liverpool’s current momentum with a 1-0 house win to spice up its hopes of staving off relegation and deal a blow to the guests’ hopes of incomes a top-four spot.
Philip Billing scored the one purpose within the twenty eighth minute after being teed up within the field by Dango Ouattara and Bournemouth managed to include a Liverpool assault that had seemed rampant in a surprising 7-0 win over Manchester United final weekend.
Mohamed Salah missed a penalty for Liverpool within the seventieth, sending his effort broad of the purpose, whereas Virgil van Dijk had an early header cleared off the road. But it was a surprisingly tame efficiency from a Liverpool staff that had seemed prefer it was lastly getting again to its greatest after 4 wins and a attract its final 5 video games.
That run that had seen Jurgen Klopp’s staff transfer as much as fifth place within the standings after a dismal first half of the season, and a win over Bournemouth would have put Liverpool above fourth-place Tottenham on purpose distinction forward of Spurs’ recreation at Nottingham Forest later.
Bournemouth began the day in final place however the win lifted it provisionally as much as sixteenth within the tight battle in opposition to relegation. The staff was coming off a 3-2 loss at chief Arsenal final weekend, when it led 2-0 however conceded the final purpose within the seventh minute of stoppage time, however appeared to have shaken off each that defeat and the 9-0 drubbing at Anfield in August — which equaled the most important profitable margin in Premier League historical past.
Ouattara had already missed an opportunity to offer Bournemouth the lead when the Burkina Faso winger turned supplier as an alternative to arrange the opening purpose. He shrugged off a problem from Van Dijk to interrupt into the precise facet of the world earlier than crossing for Billing to show house.
Liverpool then obtained a penalty after Diogo Jota’s header struck the arm of Adam Smith, with referee John Brooks pointing to the spot after consulting his pitchside monitor.
But Salah blazed his spot kick broad of the put up, the primary time the Egypt ahead has missed the goal from the penalty spot within the Premier League.
“If we score there, the game could turn,” Klopp said. “That doesn’t make the performance better, but could change the result at least. (Salah) scores a lot of goals and now he missed a penalty, that’s life.”
Liverpool ahead Cody Gakpo had the staff’s final likelihood for an equalizer in stoppage time however missed the goal after a protracted ball into the field from goalkeeper Alisson.
It was solely Bournemouth’s second league win in its final 10 video games.
