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Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister struck a winner deep into stoppage-time as his side snatched a scarcely-deserved 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest in their Premier League clash on Sunday. After a pedestrian 90 minutes in which they barely managed a shot on target, Mac Allister lit the fuse with a stoppage-time effort that was ruled out for handball before rifling home a rebound in the 97th minute to snatch the win.
Liverpool's attacking struggles began before the game when Florian Wirtz suffered an injury in the warm-up, and was replaced by Curtis Jones. Callum Hudson-Odoi had an early chance for the home side but Alisson stood tall to thwart him, and Elliot Anderson spurned a couple of decent chances as the visitors barely threatened at all. Liverpool’s best chance in normal time came in the 54th minute when Mohamed Salah headed a deep cross back to Jones, but Forest keeper Stefan Ortega got a foot to his shot to avert the danger, and the home side looked to be headed for a draw in their first league game under new manager Vitor Perreira.
However, Mac Allister had other ideas and he thought he had given his side the lead in the second minute of stoppage time when the ball cannoned off him and into the net, but a VAR review showed the ball striking his elbow. Undeterred, Mac Allister latched on to a rebound in the 97th minute and lashed it into the net.Liverpool are sixth in the table on 45 points, level with Chelsea and Manchester United, who occupy fourth and fifth spots. Forest are 17th on 27 points, two above the relegation zone.
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Jamie Carragher hailed Liverpool’s last-gasp 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest as “one of the biggest robberies” of the Premier League season.
Arne Slot’s side stole all three points at the City Ground late on as Alexis Mac Allister slammed home from close range to break Forest hearts on Vitor Pereira’s league debut in the dugout.
Mac Allister had thought he’d won the game just minutes earlier when Ola Aina’s clearance cannoned in off the Argentine after Stefan Ortega had brilliantly kept out Hugo Ekitike’s header.
The ball was adjudged to have gone in off Mac Allister’s elbow, constituting handball, and the strike was scratched off.
FT: Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool
That’s that. What drama at the end. Vitor Pereira is furious. Liverpool are level on points with Chelsea and Manchester Uninted in the race for the Champions League.
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool
90+9 mins: It counts!
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool
90+8 mins: VAR is checking once more... is van Dijk offside?
Goal! Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool
90+7 mins: Mac Allister scores again! The supposed long throw is worked short from Gomez to Szoboszlai, who waits his moment to cross. He delivers, van Dijk nods it down, and Mac Allister scrambles it home in the melee!
Nott'm Forest 0-0 Liverpool
90+5 mins: Still playing here. Can either side find that late winner? What do Liverpool have left?
Nott'm Forest 0-0 Liverpool
90+2 mins: VAR rules that it hits Mac Allister’s elbow, and that’s handball! No goal!
Goal! Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool
90 mins: It’s there, and Liverpool have won it late on! A first initial wondersave from Ortega denies Ekitike’s header from point-blank range, and then Aina tries to clear, but it cannons in off Mac Allister!
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