Alisson was but once more the standout for Liverpool of their epic 2-1 win at Newcastle, despite the fact that Darwin Nunez was the star of the present from the bench.
Jurgen Klopp‘s facet secured one in every of their most well-known Premier League victories on Sunday afternoon when all hope regarded misplaced after half an hour.
Virgil van Dijk was dismissed not lengthy after Anthony Gordon had already fired Newcastle in entrance, however, in opposition to the chances, Liverpool held on in there at 1-0 till late on.
It was then left to Nunez to return off the substitutes’ bench and rating two late targets, because the travelling Reds supporters went wild.
Right here we evaluate our participant scores with these of the Liverpool Echo, Purpose, FotMob and This Is Anfield’s readers.
Alisson (8.0) is unquestionably far and away the world’s best goalkeeper and he was value his weight in gold but once more at St James’ Park.
The Brazilian made probably the most saves (seven) he ever has within the Premier League, outlining his significance, and one cease within the first half was sensational.
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The Echo‘s Ian Doyle targeted on that aforementioned “unbelievable save” to maintain out Miguel Almiron, saying how he eased the stress on the defence in entrance of him.
In the meantime, TIA’s Mark Delgado famous how Alisson “took aerial claims nicely, stood as much as set-play deliveries and customarily stored his stage.”
In second place was Dominik Szoboszlai (7.2), with the Hungarian producing one other spectacular presence within the midfield in a extremely robust sport.
Mark Doyle of Purpose thought the 22-year-old “began very brightly” in opposition to the Magpies, additionally saying that he “by no means stopped preventing.”
Finishing the highest three had been Alexis Mac Allister (6.5) and Mohamed Salah (6.5), each of whom put in a superb shift with 10 males.
Doyle felt Mac Allister improved after the break, having struggled at instances earlier than that, whereas Delgado lauded Salah’s “completely scrumptious cross” to help Nunez’s winner.
The bottom-rated participant was unsurprisingly Van Dijk (3.7), given his purple card, though it was maybe a questionable determination.
A particular phrase of reward for Nunez, too, who didn’t get an general mark as a result of he didn’t begin, with TIA’s readers giving him an unimaginable 9.6 ranking.
