Liverpool Suffer Sixth Straight Home Loss, Spurs Function Riot
08 March, 2021
Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Crystal Palace
Gareth Bale and Harry Kane bagged two goals each as Tottenham Hotspur thrashed Crystal Palace to improve their top-four hopes in the Premier Little league.
Jose Mourinho kept leading three of Kane, Heung-min Boy and Bale while Dele Alli was only named on the bench. For Palace, talisman Wilfried Zaha came back from injury.
Bale found from where he still left off the other day after starting the scoring on 25 minutes with a simple close-array from Kane's cross.
However, the sides went in to the break all square after Christian Benteke restored for the Eagles with a towering header after getting on the finish of Luka Milivojevic's cross.
Bale restored the house side's two-goal advantage several minutes after the break with a good neat header from close selection, with Kane picking right up yet another assist.
Kane got his brand on the scoresheet on 52 minutes with a superb first-time surface finish from 20 yards out to extend Spurs' advantage.
The England international completed his brace in the 76th as Boy unselfish teed up his strike spouse for the close-vary finish as Spurs wrapped up a emphatic win to go sixth, two points adrift of the most notable four.
Jurgen Klopp built eight changes aside that loss to Chelsea, with famous brands Sadio Mane and Trent Alexander-Arnold dropping to the bench as being Diogo Jota and Neco Williams were among the improvements to come in.
Salah kept his area in the side and almost got the opening target on 14 minutes, but Ola Aina got back to deny the Egyptian with the web gaping.
Ademola Lookman continued to terrorise down the still left flank, which nearly resulted in the opener on 34 minutes but his strike deflected out for a good corner,
With the struggling to carve chances in open player, Shaqiri went close four moments later on with a curling free-kick that sailed inches over the crossbar.
Fulham took a good deserved lead on the stroke of halftime when Mario Lemina dispossessed Salah before burying the ball into the far part with a robust strike.
With the Reds struggling to break Fulham down in the second half, Mane was eventually introduced on the hour tag for Georginio Wijnaldum. The modification nearly paid off on 70 a few minutes when the Senegalese acquired on the end of Naby Keita's cross, but his towering header crashed against the frame of the target.
However, that proved to be the house side's final real opening of the next half mainly because Fulham did well to stifle the three and claim a essential three points.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za