For less than five minutes, on Sunday afternoon (27), Liverpool’s destination seemed to counteract what expected the multitude of red that occupied the team’s stadium, Anfield.
Tottenham Hotspur took the front on the scoreboard, with Solanke’s head goal, in a corner kick, 12 minutes.
But it took just another four minutes until Luíz Díaz equalized the game, at a low crossing of Szoboszlai, and gave Liverpool the only point he needed to become champion of the Premier League. Mac Allister’s great goal, a half-moon-triggered bomb on 24 minutes, and Gakpo, ten minutes later, low in a leftover after corner, were just the cherries on Arne Slot’s cake in the first stage.
For the rest of the match, traffic made only one meaning, towards the goal of the goalkeeper of the London team, Vicario. At 17 minutes of the second half, idol Mohamed Salah made his after a quick counterattack with his lethal left. At the celebration, he made selfies with a fan’s cell phone in the stands. Shortly thereafter, at 24, he pressed Udogie until the defender scored a goal against.
Gakpo, in his celebration, imitated Brazilian Kaka in 2007 and exhibited a t -shirt with the message “I belong to Jesus”. It has taken yellow card and may suffer more severe punishment by the religious message.
With a 5-1 win, Liverpool reached 82 points in the season, an unreachable number for all opponents – second place, Arsenal, had 67 points and four matches to play. Thus, the Anfield team wins its second Premier League, or the 20th English Championship title, in the first season of Dutchman Slot as his coach, and draws in Nacional’s cups with Manchester United archirrivals.
Liverpool did not start the season in a favorite position: between the departure of Jürgen Klopp, team coach for almost nine years; The recent dominance of Manchester City, champion in the previous four years; Arsenal’s force, vice in the last two seasons; And the hiring of only one player, Federico Chiesa, to reinforce the cast, indicated that the “Reds” would reach the end of April with 12 points advantage over the runner -up.
Recent defeats in the uprovers of the Champions League at home for Paris Saint-German, and in the Carabao Cup final against Newcastle, attracted criticism to Salah’s team. But the team had created a lot of hard enough at Premier, and with Arsenal stopping a draw with Crystal Palace last Wednesday (23), one point was enough in five rounds to put his hand on the cup.
Already Tottenham entered the match as the 16th place in the table, with 37 points, less than half of the leaders. The focus of the Ange team poscoglou is Europe League – it is in the semifinals.
By 2020, the team ended a 30-year-old fasting in English, but cannot celebrate with their fans due to the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now you have the opportunity to celebrate with the full house.
Following the tradition, the trophy will only be delivered to Captain Virgil Van Dijk on Sunday, May 25, date of Liverpool’s last match at home, against Crystal Palace. The city plans a big party on Monday (26).
Relegated
At the other end of the table, the 3-0 loss on Saturday to Newcastle United sealed the fate of Ipswitch Town, the third team to be relegated to next season, alongside Southampton and Leicester City.
The three teams had been promoted this season, marking the second year in a row in which the newcomers fall again immediately, repeating the feat of Sheffield United, Burnley and Luton Town.
