Liverpool weren’t at their greatest of their 2-0 win at dwelling to Everton, however sure people nonetheless caught the attention at Anfield.
Jurgen Klopp‘s males returned to Premier League motion on Saturday after the worldwide break, figuring out that solely victory would do in opposition to the Blues.
Ashley Younger was red-carded throughout the first half, at some extent wherein Liverpool had been already dominating, making it an enormous process for the guests.
Mohamed Salah‘s double, the primary of which was a penalty, obtained the Reds over the road in an unpleasant contest, to maintain tempo with these on the prime of the desk.
Right here we evaluate our participant rankings with these of the Liverpool Echo, Objective, FotMob and This Is Anfield’s readers.
Maybe surprisingly, it was Luis Diaz (7.7) who obtained the perfect total score at Anfield, although he has seemingly performed lots higher than this.
In equity, the Colombian was all the time a risk, although, concerned within the vital match moments after getting Ashley Younger sent-off for each yellow playing cards earlier than half-time.
TIA’s Joanna Durkan thought Diaz was Liverpool’s greatest participant, saying it was an “influential outing” total, even at left wing-back earlier than he was substituted.
Harry Sherlock of Objective thought that the 26-year-old “completely tortured” Younger, in the end having an enormous say within the eventual consequence.
Subsequent up within the rankings was Salah (7.5), who was truly a great distance in need of his greatest, however nonetheless proved to be the match-winner.
The Egyptian King fired dwelling his penalty nervelessly after which completed properly in stoppage time, with FotMob declaring that he received each of his two aerial duels.
Virgil van Dijk (7.4) was in third place, following a cultured and dominant efficiency from the Liverpool skipper.
Durkan believes the Dutchman’s type “has been has been considerably underappreciated” this season, including that he was “alert to any hazard and ended the match with the second-most touches of any participant on the pitch.”
The bottom common rating of the day went to Kostas Tsimikas (5.6), who appeared an enormous degree under Andy Robertson‘s common requirements.
Liverpool now have a four-day break earlier than they host Toulouse within the Europa League on Thursday night (8pm UK).
