Relegation Bound Wolves Compound Liverpool Misery With Shock Defeat

Andre scored a 94th-minute winner as bottom club Wolves beat the defending Premier League champions Liverpool.

Mohamed Salah looked to have rescued a point for Liverpool after Rodrigo Gomes gave Wolves the lead – but in added time, Andre’s strike took a deflection off Joe Gomez to send Molineux wild.

For the fifth time this season, Arne Slot’s side conceded an injury-time winner.

This was just a third league win of the campaign for Rob Edwards’ side, who look destined to drop to the Championship yet have beaten Liverpool, Aston Villa and drawn against Arsenal in their past three home games.

Edwards celebrated Andre’s late winner with a sprint down the touchline – although the 43-year-old was feeling the effects of the physical exertion afterwards.

For Liverpool, victory here could have taken them level with Manchester United and Aston Villa – third and fourth respectively – on 51 points, but they remain fifth. Wolves remain bottom and 11 points from safety.

There was a poignant touch to the night – before kick-off, both sets of fans remembered Diogo Jota, the former Wolves and Liverpool forward who died in a car crash last July. There were banners in display in the home and away sections to pay tribute to the Portugal international.

Slot made one change from Liverpool’s 5-2 win over West Ham with Jeremie Frimpong coming in for Joe Gomez, while Edwards made four changes from the side that beat Aston Villa last Friday.

The Liverpool head coach had admitted during the build-up that he no longer found most Premier League games a joy to watch because of the increasing dominance of set-pieces across the top flight.

And the first half at Molineux was largely dull, with Liverpool dominating possession but barely testing goalkeeper Jose Sa and struggling to beat the first man from their corners.

With Ryan Gravenberch on a booking after a poor first half, Slot replaced the Dutch midfielder with Curtis Jones at the break and the visitors raced out of the blocks in the second.

But two of Wolves’ substitutes combined to break the deadlock as Tolu Arokodare held off Virgil van Dijk and found Gomez, who expertly dinked the ball over Alisson.

A minute later, 17-year-old Rio Ngumoha hit the post for Liverpool – who levelled shortly after when Jean Ricner-Bellegarde gave the ball away and Salah scored his first Premier League goal since November.

With both sides hunting a winner, it was end-to-end in the latter stages and it was Wolves who took the three points.

The second half was certainly more of a joy to watch – but not in the manner that Slot or Liverpool would have liked.

BBC

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