Liverpool
, with
Alexis Mac Allister
as starter, stepped on the accelerator in the second half to seal a resounding 4-0 in the
Bournemouth
field , this Sunday, for the 21st matchday of the
Premier League
, where they escape at the top and take five points ahead of
Manchester City
(2nd),
Arsenal
(3rd) and
Aston Villa
(4th).
After a goalless first half, Portuguese
Diogo Jota
gave his team momentum by providing an assist for
Darwin Núñez
(ST 4'), before achieving a double (ST 25' and 35').
His Uruguayan teammate, with everything already decided (ST 45), put the second of her own and the final 4-0 on the scoreboard.
In this way, Jota and Núñez managed to forget the absence of
Mohamed Salah
, the team's and the tournament's top scorer - he has 14 shouts, as does the Norwegian
Erling Haaland
, who is with Egypt in the Ivory Coast competing in the
African Cup
, where He injured his thigh this week.
Diogo Jota, absent due to injury for almost the entire month of December, is in great form, with a record of three goals and three assists in three Premier League games, since his reappearance on Boxing Day on December
26
.
Mac Allister, with a good performance, played the 90 minutes.
For Núñez, however, this double represents an important dose of confidence.
He had only scored one goal in his previous 16 games for Liverpool
, since he scored the winning goal in November in the League Cup against Bournemouth, an opponent he is good at.
The festival at Bournemouth, twelfth in the English championship, is a great response from the Reds to the 5-0 victory achieved on Saturday by Arsenal against Crystal Palace (15th).
Liverpool has 48 points, five more than second place, Manchester City, which played its matchday 21 match last weekend [3-2 victory in Newcastle] and has also played one game less than the leader.
Julián Álvarez's team will play that pending match on February 20 against Brentford.
With the same harvest, 43 units, are Arsenal and Aston Villa.
In Sunday's other match in the English league, bottom team
Sheffield United
and
West Ham
(6th) tied 2-2.
The
Hammers
reached the final moments with an advantage, but the bottom of the table avoided defeat in front of their home crowd with a penalty converted in the thirteenth minute of stoppage time by Scotsman Oli McBurnie.
With information from AFP