Brentford handed Liverpool one other setback within the title race.
Brentford handed Premier League champions Liverpool a fourth consecutive defeat as they prevailed 3-2 in an exhilarating recreation in West London.
Liverpool appeared to have arrested their current hunch in midweek after they thrashed Eintracht Frankfurt 5-1 within the Champions League.
Nonetheless, Arne Slot’s males have been as soon as once more nicely under their finest on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium, and objectives from Dango Ouattara and Kevin Schade gave Brentford a hard-earned 2-0 lead.
Milos Kerkez controversially pulled one again for the guests in first-half stoppage time, however a contentious penalty from Igor Thiago gave Brentford management once more on the hour mark.
A surprising Mohamed Salah strike organising an exhilarating end, however Brentford held on to maneuver into the highest half, with Liverpool’s newest loss dropping them to sixth. A win for Arsenal towards Crystal Palace on Sunday would see the Reds fall seven factors off the tempo within the title race.
Route one undoes Liverpool once more
A lot has been made from Liverpool’s struggles coping with direct soccer from their opponents, and people issues reared their head within the fifth minute.
Kayode’s throw got here in with tempo and radar-like precision, and Kristoffer Ajer flicked into the trail of Ouattara to acrobatically flip residence.
Liverpool had a gilt-edged likelihood to stage within the twentieth minute however Florian Wirtz, but to register a purpose involvement within the Premier League, lashed narrowly vast of the left-hand put up.
Cody Gakpo then curled vast with an bold effort from the sting of the realm, but it was the hosts who continued to pose the higher menace, Jordan Henderson not far-off from a long-range purpose towards the membership for whom he lifted the Champions League earlier than Damsgaard went nearer, drawing a wonderful save from Giorgi Mamardashvili.
But shortly after Liverpool noticed penalty appeals waved away when Gakpo went down theatrically within the space, Damsgaard teed up Brentford’s second, his excellent angled throughball taking part in in Schade, who crept his effort below Mamardashvili.
Either side ended the half irritated at referee Simon Hooper, who drew the ire of Brentford and supervisor Keith Andrews, who was cautioned for his protestations after Hooper allowed the primary half to hold on past the allotted extra three minutes. The clock had ticked past 49 minutes when Kerkez stole in to halve the deficit.
Brentford cling on
Hooper needed to withdraw from proceedings forward of the second half resulting from harm, with Tim Robinson taking his place for the restart, which was rapidly adopted by extra Brentford dominance because the busy Mamardashvili twice denied Thiago after which stored out a deflected Damsgaard effort.
The Georgia worldwide was crushed for a 3rd time, although, with Robinson taking part in a central position in Brentford restoring their two-goal cushion as he introduced to the group {that a} Virgil van Dijk foul on Ouattara had taken place contained in the field, the VAR deeming it a factual overturn, leaving no want for the referee to seek the advice of the pitchside monitor.
Thiago confidently tucked residence the penalty, and Ouattara twice spurned alternatives to place the sport to mattress, heading vast from very good crosses from Kayode and Keane Lewis-Potter.
And his profligacy allowed Salah, with no purpose in six video games, to present Liverpool hope by brilliantly controlling Dominik Szoboszlai’s ball in and crashing residence on the half-volley after Brentford gave the ball away deep in their very own half.
Ouattara headed over from one other good Lewis-Potter supply, and it appeared as if it that would show expensive when seven minutes have been added on and an harm to Thiago swelled that quantity.
The clocked ticked past 100 minutes, and Liverpool went agonisingly near drawing stage on the demise when Salah did not make correct contact with a far-post cross in a miss that summed up his lack of type, with former Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher’s subsequent save from Szoboszlai securing a well-known win for Brentford.