Mohamed Salah scored a late equaliser from a penalty kick as Liverpool escaped Outdated Trafford with a single level in a 2-2 draw with Manchester United to climb to even on factors with Premier League leaders Arsenal.
Salah stroked residence within the 84th minute for his sixth league objective at Outdated Trafford, essentially the most of any visiting participant within the league’s historical past, overtaking Steven Gerrard’s 5.
With seven video games remaining within the neck-and-neck title race, Liverpool and Arsenal have 71 factors with the Gunners main on objective distinction. Holders Manchester Metropolis are third on 70 factors, whereas United are sixth with 49.
Luis Diaz bought Liverpool on the scoreboard within the twenty third minute when Dominik Szoboszlai swung in a nook that Darwin Nunez headed to the unmarked Colombian who hooked in a volley from shut vary.
However Bruno Fernandes scored a wild objective — the United skipper’s fiftieth league objective for the aspect — with their first shot on course within the fiftieth minute when he latched on to a unfastened Liverpool go and lobbed the ball from the centre circle previous keeper Caoimhin Kelleher.
Kobbie Mainoo had the Outdated Trafford trustworthy roaring together with his rocket from simply contained in the 18-yard field that sailed into the far high nook within the 67th minute.
Mainoo was the primary 18-year-old to attain a league objective towards Liverpool since Cesc Fabregas for Arsenal in 2005, and the delighted teenager sprinted to the nook flag to salute the gang in celebration.
“It’s an unbelievable feeling to attain my first Outdated Trafford objective and to do it on this fixture was much more particular,” Mainoo instructed Sky Sports activities, including that he was upset in regards to the end result.
“We didn’t get the three factors and that’s the principle factor. I feel we carried out rather well within the second half. The lads made minor errors and if we iron them out then we win the sport.”
Liverpool had been awarded their penalty when Harvey Elliott was taken down within the field.
It was the second time in latest weeks that Erik ten Hag’s staff had struck a blow towards Liverpool, dispatching them from the FA Cup with a dramatic 4-3 quarter-final residence win in additional time final month.
The match marked the primary time Liverpool had didn’t win a league recreation during which they held a lead since October towards Brighton.
“We should always have received the sport, that’s clear,” Liverpool supervisor Juergen Klopp instructed Sky Sports activities. “We should always have had different targets within the first half already. So far as I’m involved, we have now some extent greater than we did earlier than. They put an additional shift in, that’s how it’s.
“We don’t have many residence video games left. The staff who wins the league in the long run ought to deserve it. We’re within the race and I’m completely tremendous with it.”
Liverpool dominated with 62.1% possession and 28 pictures to the house aspect’s 9. They saved United to zero pictures on course within the first half of a league match for the primary time since April 2022, additionally towards Liverpool.
Alejandro Garnacho briefly had the United crowd on their toes with a objective within the second minute but it surely was chalked off for offside.
United have received simply certainly one of their previous 12 Premier League video games towards Liverpool — this fixture final season.
Spurs transfer into fourth with 3-1 win over Forest
Tottenham Hotspur boosted their Champions League qualifying hopes with a 3-1 residence win over relegation-battling Nottingham Forest on Sunday to maneuver into fourth within the Premier League.
Second-half targets from Micky van de Ven and Pedro Porro, after Forest’s Chris Wooden had cancelled out Murillo’s personal objective within the opening interval, helped Spurs capitalise on rivals Aston Villa and Manchester United dropping factors this weekend.
Tottenham’s victory places them degree with Villa on 60 factors however with a recreation in hand. Forest stay seventeenth with 25 factors from 32 video games, above third-bottom Luton City on objective distinction.
The hosts led after quarter-hour when Murillo turned Timo Werner’s cross into his personal web earlier than Forest equalised towards the run of play by Wooden’s fourth objective in 4 video games.
Van de Ven hit a thunderbolt from the sting of the world to revive Spurs’ lead after 52 minutes earlier than Pedro Porro calmed their nerves with an incredible end six minutes later.
Sheffield United’s McBurnie grabs late equaliser to grab Chelsea draw
Sheffield United’s striker Ollie McBurnie snatched a stoppage-team equaliser to safe a 2-2 draw at residence to Chelsea of their battle for Premier League survival on Sunday.
The Blades stay backside of the desk on 16 factors and have seven video games left to play, whereas Chelsea are ninth on 44 factors after extending their unbeaten run to seven league video games.
United’s defensive frailties had been uncovered within the eleventh minute when Chelsea defender Thiago Silva was left unmarked at a nook to steer residence the opening objective however Jayden Bogle introduced the hosts degree in thirty second minute.
Chelsea’s Noni Madueke seemed to have settled it with an excellent objective within the 66th however McBurnie reacted quickest to a ball into the field three minutes into stoppage time to seize a draw.
