Was this the day Liverpool seized control of the title race? No, that was when Manchester City were comfortably beaten here last time out. All that could be said for sure after Brighton were defeated at a surprisingly fraught Anfield is that this was the day the reigning Premier League champions disappeared from Jürgen Klopp’s rear-view mirror.
Liverpool went from comfortable to tense against Graham Potter’s committed visitors after Alisson was sent off for handling outside his area and Lewis Dunk converted the resulting free-kick. The 10 men held on to a lead given by Virgil van Dijk’s two headers, however, to finish with a remarkable 11-point lead at the Premier League summit before the end of November.
Written by Andy Hunter at Anfield
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/nov/30/liverpool-brighton-hove-albion-premier-league-match-report under the title “Liverpool 11 points clear despite Alisson red as Van Dijk sinks Brighton”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
