Fulham 2-2 Liverpool: Match Review
Liverpool have dropped points in 10 of their 20 Premier League games so far this season.
Gary Neville is confident that Liverpool will still deliver a Premier League top-four finish despite dropping more points.
Liverpool looked like they were going to deliver a victory at Craven Cottage when Cody Gakpo scored in the fourth minute of stoppage-time. However, Fulham’s Harrison Reed netted a 35-yard wonder strike to leave Arne Slot’s side crestfallen in the capital.
Having won the Premier League title last season, the Reds’ defence of their crown has been insipid and they are 14 points behind leaders Arsenal. Slot’s side have dropped points in 10 of their 20 games and they are fourth in the table.
In the battle for Champions League qualification, Liverpool are three points above fifth-placed Chelsea and sixth-placed Manchester United. A tight race could be on to secure qualification for Europe’s elite club competition next season, but Neville reckons that the Reds will have enough.
Speaking on The Gary Neville Podcast, the former Manchester United and England defender said: “Wirtz scored the equaliser, it was on the edge of offside. The amount of times from me walking to a gantry and Liverpool score late on is unbelievable in this last couple of years. It’s a bit of a dig when Liverpool win late on then, all of the sudden, they throw on our screens the Harrison Reed goal that is absolutely... wow, what a goal that is.
“Alisson is the absolute best, I haven’t got anything negative to say about him as a goalkeeper. To beat him from there takes some doing and it was a special strike. It would have gutted Liverpool. They are not at their best, they are conceding goals still and are not quite right at the front.
“Liverpool look like they are going to finish in the Champions League places, partly because they are good enough to but partly because there are teams around them that are not good enough to knock them out. That’s going to be the reality of Liverpool.
“They have got enough good players up top, Salah is going to come back. They are going to get there in terms of the Champions League but are nowhere near at the levels of last season. But they are not going to shock us and go on a great run in the second half of last season because they’re still making quite a lot of errors and mistakes. A,though, at the end, that was an absolute gem from Harrison Reed.”
Liverpool’s credentials of finishing in the top four will seriously be put to the test when they make the trip to Arsenal on Thursday. The Gunners are six points clear at the summit of the table after earning a 3-2 win over AFC Bournemouth. However, the Reds did earn a 1-0 victory when the two sides met at Anfield back in August.
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