Liverpool’s mini-revival comes to a grinding halt as Nottingham Forest condemns Reds to shock defeat

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Liverpool’s mini-revival comes to a grinding halt as Nottingham Forest condemns Reds to shock defeat

Jurgen
Klopp’s
side
struggled
to
carve
out
openings
in
an
even
opening
period
and
fell
behind
when
former
Liverpool
youngster
Awoniyi
tapped
home
his
third
Premier
League
goal
shortly
after
half-time.

Virgil
van
Dijk
went
closest
to
equalising
for
desperate
Liverpool,
who
have
failed
to
win
a
single
away
league
game
this
season
after
once
again
falling
short
of
last
term’s
lofty
standards.

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While
the
result
lifted
Forest
off
the
foot
of
the
table,
it
left
Liverpool
11
points
adrift
of
leaders
Arsenal,
dealing
another
blow
to
the
Reds’ increasingly
forlorn
title
hopes.


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FIXTURES

Dean
Henderson
stood
firm
to
deny
Fabio
Carvalho
from
a
tight
angle
as
Liverpool
controlled
possession
early
on,
before
Roberto
Firmino
headed
narrowly
wide
from
the
resulting
corner.

Forest
grew
into
the
contest
as
the
half
progressed,
though
both
Cheikhou
Kouyate
and
Jesse
Lingard
failed
to
seriously
test
Alisson
from
promising
positions.

The
Reds’ below-par
performance
continued
after
the
break
and
they
were
duly
punished
by
Awoniyi
after
55
minutes.

The
Nigeria
striker
initially
prodded
Steve
Cook’s
right-wing
delivery
against
the
right-hand
post
but
was
on
hand
to
convert
the
rebound,
sending
the
City
Ground
into
raptures.

Henderson
denied
Liverpool
a
quickfire
equaliser
when
he
turned
Harvey
Elliott’s
powerful
effort
away
from
the
top-right
corner.

Forest
were
indebted
to
Henderson
once
more
when
the
Manchester
United
loanee
stopped
Van
Dijk’s
point-blank
header
in
stoppage
time,
before
Brennan
Johnson
clipped
the
post
with
Alisson
up
the
other
end
during
a
frantic
finish.

Liverpool
were
without
the
firepower
of
the
injured
Darwin
Nunez,
Diogo
Jota
and
Luis
Diaz
and
in
the
hindsight
it
showed
as
they
lacked
the
spark
needed
to
unlock
a
deep-lying
Forest
defence.

Awoniyi
had
spent
six
years
as
a
Liverpool
player
without
ever
making
an
appearance
as
he
was
farmed
out
on
a
series
of
loan
spells,
but
iroically,
he
came
back
to
haunt
his
former
club
and
move
his
current
employers
off
the
bottom
of
the
table.


(With
inputs
from
OPTA/Agencies)

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