Nottingham Forest moved out of the bottom three following a 3-0 thrashing of Premier League champions Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday.
It was Liverpool’s talisman 300th Premier League, and the Egyptian striker struggled to find the back of the net as the Reds falloff the top 10.
However, the win lifted Forest out of the bottom three as the Sean Dyche men moved to 16th on the Premier League table with 12 points from 12 matches.
Liverpool, now miles away from the PL title contest fell to a sixth Premier League loss in their last seven games.
It looked like Liverpool had survived the scare, but 39 seconds into the second half the situation worsened, with the only point of contention concerning how poor the defending was.
Neco Williams skipped over a couple of half-hearted challenges before Nicolo Savona hammered home to make it 2-0.
The visitors signed off by adding a third via Morgan Gibbs-White, teed up wonderfully by Omari Hutchinson, who ghosted by Andy Robertson as if he was not there.
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The reigning champions drop into the bottom half of the table as a result, while Forest rise out of the relegation zone after back-to-back wins under new boss Sean Dyche.
The Anfield game also had its share of controversy. A fortnight after VAR had intervened to rule out Virgil Van Dijk’s equaliser against Manchester City, scored under similar circumstances.
This time, the technology failed to act when Murillo struck past Alisson with Dan Ndoye stood in an offside position.
The Premier League’s match centre said “Ndoye was not in the line of vision of Alisson”, despite being stood in front of him.
Forest could and probably should have been two ahead when Igor Jesus volleyed into the far corner moments later, but on-field referee Andy Madley had spotted a debatable handball – a decision ratified by VAR.
“I am astounded this has been ruled out,” Michael Dawson, said on Soccer Saturday.