The earliest match of round 5 of the Premier League between Wolves and Liverpool ended with a comeback to win 3-1 by coach Jurgen Klopp’s team thanks to a hat-trick of assists from striker Mohamed Salah.

Goal

Wolves: Hwang Hee-chan (7′)
Liverpool: Gakpo (55′), Robertson (85′), Elliott (90+1′)

Marching to Molineux Stadium, where coach Klopp and his team lost 0-3 in their last visit, Liverpool fans had reason to worry, especially when they entered the match with a defense that was patchy due to absences. faces of two pillars Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold. Young midfielder Jarell Quansah was given the opportunity to make his first start for Liverpool’s first team.

Meanwhile, host Wolves made two changes from their last loss to Crystal Palace, when Jeanricner Bellegarde and Hwang Hee-chan returned to the main squad. And it was these players and star Pedro Neto who played explosively on Wolves’ offensive front.

Accepting to play defensive counter-attack, Wolves made big man Liverpool face many difficulties in implementing the play. In the 7th minute, from the situation of clearing the ball from the penalty area, Matheus Cunha quickly passed to Pedro Neto so that the Portuguese player could make a 63m long acceleration phase, eliminating 3 Liverpool players before reaching a favorable cross for Hwang Hee. Chan finished with one touch to beat Alisson to open the score.

After scoring, Wolves continued to stay true to their style of play and completely blocked the away team’s attacking stars. Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, or Diogo Jota were lost and had no connection, while the central midfield duo of Alexis MacAllister and Dominik Szoboszlai constantly lost the ball or passed to the wrong address.

If it took Liverpool until injury time in the first half to create the first truly dangerous situation, Wolves had many counterattacks to create chaos in front of the away team’s goal. Most notable was Cunha’s unfortunate miss in the 34th minute, when he jumped high to head the ball but the ball went too low and fell into his stomach at a distance of 4 meters in front of Liverpool’s empty goal.

Entering the second half, coach Jurgen Klopp made three changes to the attacking front with the presence of Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez. Just 2 minutes after entering the field, Diaz almost equalized the score, but his header in the penalty area in the 47th minute went wide of the post.

In the 55th minute, it was Diaz who made a favorable pass for Salah to make a diagonal shot in the penalty area and Gakpo was in the right place to cushion the ball into the goal at a distance of 3 meters, equalizing the score for Liverpool. With this assist, Salah contributed to goals for The Kop for the 200th time.

After the equalizer, Liverpool played excitedly and continuously forced the home team to shrink defensively. However, there weren’t many dangerous plays created by Coach Klopp’s players against Wolves’ aggressive defense. It seemed like the match would end in a draw, but Liverpool once again this season brought excitement to fans in the final minutes of the match.

In the 85th minute, captain Robertson suddenly penetrated the middle area and performed a 1-2 coordination situation with Salah before technically defeating goalkeeper Jose Sa. And it was Salah who completed a hat-trick of assists for Harvey Elliott to score a shot into the near corner to seal the victory for Liverpool in the 90+1 minute. With this comeback, Liverpool temporarily rose to the top of the rankings with 13 points, 1 point more than second-place team Man City.

Squad

Wolves: Jose Sa; Semedo, Dawson, Kilman, Ait-Nouri; Bellegarde (Doyle 77′), Lemina (Traore 78′), Joao Gomes; Neto, Cunha (Fabio Silva 60′), Hwang Hee-chan (Doherty 60′)
Liverpool: Alisson; Robertson, Gomez, Matip, Quansah (Konate 83′); Jones, Szoboszlai, MacAllister (Diaz 46′); Jota (Elliott 56′), Gakpo (Nunez 56′), Salah (Gravenberch 90′)