Liverpool collapses two weeks after receiving Real Madrid

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At the end of the first part in Wolverhampton, sitting on the bench, dejected, with a lost look, Jürgen Klopp was the flag of Liverpool, a depressed team that was heading to its fourth defeat in the six Premier League games played after the break for the World Cup, a period of just over a month in which the

have also been left out of the Cup and the League Cup.

WVHWolves

3

José Sá, Max Kilman, Rayan Ait Nouri (Jonny, min. 83), Dawson, Nelson Semedo, Matheus, Mario Lemina (Daniel Podence, min. 83), Ruben Neves, Hwang Hee-Chan (Adama Traoré, min. 41) , Sarabia (Moutinho, min. 60) and Matheus Cunha (Raúl Jiménez, min. 60)

LIV Liverpool

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Alisson, Matip, A. Robertson (Konstantinos Tsimikas, min. 85), Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Thiago (Milner, min. 85), Stefan Bajcetic, Naby Keita (Henderson, min. 65), Gakpo (Oxlade- Chamberlain, min 85), Darwin Núñez and Salah

Goals

1-0 min.

5: Matip (pp).

2-0 min.

11: Dawson.

3-0 min.

71: Rubén Neves.

Referee

Paul Tierney

Yellow cards Dawson (min. 48) and Joe Gomez (min. 75)

Just over two weeks after meeting Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, the whites' rival is injured.

The great bet of the summer market, the charrúa Darwin Núñez, has already shown for a long time that he is below the requirement of a great in Europe.

In the winter, the Dutchman Cody Gakpo, is still expected.

In 500 minutes of play in three Premier League games and three Cup games, he has failed to score.

Mohamed Salah is a prisoner of atony.

Firmino and Diogo Jota are injured.

Luis Díaz too and he will be counted on, at the earliest, in March.

The defeat (3-0) against Wolves put the focus on the two central defenders.

Matip scored the first own goal.

The second carried the signature of a poor clearance by Joe Gómez.

Van Dijk is making an effort to recover from a muscular ailment that Klopp once described as "tough".

He wants to be on the 21st against Madrid at Anfield, in a new dispute between the 2018 and 2022 Champions League finalists. Both times the immense Dutch defender was defeated.

Liverpool lost in Wolverhampton, where the local team has three victories in six games with Lopetegui in charge.

Just after ten minutes into the game, the Basque coach had already celebrated two goals.

Klopp's decline before the break was the prelude to a greedy return.

At times that bubbling team seemed to return that percussed and percussed.

But a counter killed him and the German coach returned to lean regretfully on the bench while the local fans cheered with olés every touch of the ball from their players.

In the last three minutes of the game they denied the ball to Liverpool, who ran after him helplessly.

The team lacks flight, which advances low through the equator of the Premier table, tenth classified,

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