This Saturday, Liverpool added their first victory in the 2023/24 edition of the English Football League, while Fulham, led by Portuguese coach Marco Silva, suffered a heavy defeat at home, on the second day of the competition.
At Anfield Road, the ‘reds’ started losing, but turned around and beat Bournemouth, 3-1, a very different result to Fulham, who lost at home to neighboring London Brentford, 3-0.
With six Portuguese on the field, Wolverhampton, ‘abandoned’ by Julen Lopetegui a few days before the start of the season, was beaten 4-1 at home by Brighton, who started the Premier League ‘well’.
After the draw against Chelsea (1-1) in their debut, Liverpool beat Bournemouth with the precious help of Diogo Jota, who started and scored his team’s third goal, in the 62nd minute, in a decisive moment in the match.
At this point, the ‘reds’ were already playing with one unit less, due to the expulsion of the Argentine and reinforcement Mac Allister, in the 58th minute, and the goal of the Portuguese international ended up giving another ‘consolation’ to the team. from the German Jurgen Klopp to the Final.
Even Bournemouth won, with an accurate shot from Ghana’s Semenyo, after three minutes, but the Colombian Luís Díaz (ex-FC Porto), in minute 28, and the Egyptian Salah, in minute 36, in the recharge of a penalty that , by the failure itself, starred in the overturn.
In London, after kicking off the Premier League with a motivating win at Everton (1-0), Fulham had an afternoon to forget against Brentford, with the return of João Palhinha, who came on in the second half after stopping due to injury.
At Craven Cottage, the Frenchman Wissa put Brentford ahead, in the 44th minute, and suffered the penalty that led to Brentford’s second goal, in the 66th minute, by Bryan Mbeumo, and Tim Ream’s expulsion for Marco Silva’s men.
In added time (90+2 minutes), Mbeumo scored twice and made Marco Silva’s day even worse.
Life seems more difficult for Wolverhampton, who, with José Sá, Nélson Semedo, Pedro Neto, Matheus Nunes and Fábio Silva in the starting eleven and Toti Gomes as a used substitute, was ‘crushed’ at home by Brighton, who repeated the 4 -1 from Matchday 1 with Lutton Town.
Matheus Nunes was even sent off in added time, for misconduct, at a time when Mitoma (16 minutes), Estupinan (46) and March (52 and 55) had scored for the outsiders and Hee-Chan (62) reduced for outsiders. ‘Wolves’.
Source: TSF
