TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Liverpool akan bertandang ke Liberty Stadium, markas dari Swansea City pada laga pekan ke-24 Premier League, Selasa (23/1/2018) dini hari pukul 03.00 WIB.
The Reds diharapkan untuk tidak mengendorkan semangatnya.
Saat ini mereka diposisi keempat kembali tertinggal oleh Chelsea.
Sebelumnya Liverpool berhasil menyamai poin The Blues dengan 47 poin, namun Chelsea berhasil menjauh dengan 50 poin setelah menang telak atas Brighton pada Sabtu (20/1/2018).
Liverpool sendiri diklaim bisa kembali menempel setelah meraih lima kemenangan secara beruntun.
Apalagi, Liverpool menjadi klub pertama yang sanggup kalahkan Manchester City pada Premier League musim 2017/18 ini.
Ditambah kondisi tim tuan rumah yang lagi terpuruk, itu bisa menjadi kesempatan bagus bagi James Milner dkk untuk raih kemenangan.
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This time last year Swansea City beat Liverpool at Anfield and gained the belief that saved them from Premier League relegation. Here they defeated Liverpool once more with Hymns and Arias, the fans’ anthem that has sadly not echoed around the Liberty Stadium much of late, sung joyously at the final whistle.
It was a final whistle after which Liverpool’s frustrations boiled over with pushing and shoving. They had spurned chances, been denied by some astonishingly resolute defending and, with just seconds to go, Roberto Firmino thumped a header against a post from close range. Firmino surely had to score and Liverpool will have felt they had to win as they fight to finish in the top four.
Instead, their 18-match undefeated run in all competitions has come to a spectacular end against a Swansea side who are still 20th in the league but are not cut adrift.
In fact, they are three points from safety and the belief this result gave them under their Carlos Carvalhal, their new manager, was palpable. He later laid out in his inimitably colourful style: the patient – the team – were in intensive care when he took over, relegation appearing a certainty, but they are now “well enough to accept visitors”.
There are signs of life; they have a fighting chance.
SWANSEA, KOMPAS.com - Tren positif Liverpool yang tak pernah kalah dalam 18 pertandingan di berbagai kompetisi terhenti pada pekan ke-24 Premier League - kasta teratas Liga Inggris, Senin (22/1/2018) atau Selasa dini hari WIB. Liverpool kalah dari Swansea City.
Pada pertandingan di Stadion Liberty itu, Swansea City menang tipis 1-0. Gol Alfie Mawson pada menit ke-40 menjadi pembeda hasil akhir kedua tim.
Kekalahan ini membuat Liverpool gagal menyalip Chelsea di posisi ketiga klasemen sementara. Klub berjulukan The Reds itu tertahan di posisi keempat dengan koleksi 47 poin, tertinggal tiga angka dari Chelsea dan unggul dua angka atas Tottenham Hotspur.
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Sementara itu, kendati menang, Swansea City tak beranjak dari posisi juru kunci. Mereka mengumpulkan 20 poin dari 24 laga.
2 - Two of the last three occasions the team starting the day bottom of the Premier League table has beaten a team in the top four have been Swansea vs Liverpool (today and January 2017). Quirky.
