Absolutely stripped. Proud of my team and that performance on a night where almost everything went wrong, but eventually eroded.
We didn’t deserve that. The better side with 11 men and (somehow) the better side with 10, but we lost it in the dead in a devastating way, with a 100th minute strike that spoils a monumental effort with almost the last kick.
Just like with Aston Villa, we were comfortably the better side in the first half, but we had little to show, with missed opportunities, one defensive decay and a red card that spoiled an enormous effort in the first 45 minutes.
It was a stop-start game for a large part of the first half, a theme with free kicks and mistakes, but we wasted openings that could have been goals with a natural striker on the field.
Gordon had two head chances and go, with a brilliant Elanga Burst and Cross also wasted when Gordon came there first, but could not bundle Alisson. For the second time in the same number of weeks it felt like we were gone a quality striker (Alexander Isak!) Of scoring the first in a game we checked.
But, missed opportunities and bad last ball, of open play and set pieces, we went on and this time we were punished, while a weak ditch that the left pope did not succeed before Gravenberch shot a shot in the bottom corner. One of the few Liverpool attacks, but it was they who hit the first blow.
A heavy task then turned into a mountain to climb while Gordon saw red. His urgent, energy and enthusiasm had so far been a large part of our game, but he exceeded the goal when he spotted it from Dijk. A yellow card was turned into a red after a VAR check and we went into the break, not just a goal down, but a man down, with our stand-in striker now suspended for upcoming matches against Leeds, Wolves and Bournemouth.
A minute in the restart and it felt like a game. Liverpool caught the break, Liverpool burst outside our midfield, Gakpo fired and Ekitike shot only a minute in the second 45 along the pope. He had to be.
But we gathered and showed that Vechtgeest, with the driven Bruno Guimaraes a goal that his Never Say that deserved display.
His header felt like the catalyst for a heroic comeback -similar game, while Osula came to score to score as the strike to earn us the unlikely points against the champions.
St James’ Park broke out and we looked like the side that was ready to win it with 10 men, because 11 minutes added time was spotted, but we all know what came next. A 100th minute Sukkel when Liverpool let the reserve man count, when 16-year-old Rio Ngumoha emphatically arrived to end up emphasize.
The defeat hurts when hell, the absence of Isak costs us again and we have now lost Gordon to suspension, and Tonali and Joelinton in injuries.
Anyway, we are back. A team, manager and club to be proud of, and a big chance to bounce on Leeds this Saturday. How the boys.
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