Liverpool: Liverpool fans received a beginning of the season in the season, since the late goals of Mo Salah and Federico Chiesa sealed a 4-2 victory over Bournemouth in Anfield on Friday.
On a bittersweet night accused of emotion after the death of July of the Liverpool striker, Diogo Jota, the newcomer Hugo Ekitike won a goal in his league debut to put the hosts ahead after 37 minutes and Cody Gakpo doubled the advantage in 49.
But Antoine Semenyo, who was the goal of racist abuse in the first half that led to a pause in the game, withdrew one for visitors in the 64th minute and completed a double 12 minutes later to rock Liverpool and surprise local fans.
However, the Chiesa substitute sent the faithful of Liverpool to Happy with an attack of 88 minutes after goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic hit a ball in the Salah box, who was deeply scored in the additional time to conclude the three points.
Salah pursued the ball beyond the defense before cutting and shooting towards the lower corner with a goal that put the fourth day of the International Egypt with Andy Cole on the list of recorders of the Premier League of all time with 187.
An emotional Salah pointed to the skies and hit two hands to imitate the celebration of the jota shark goal.
He went to the Kop post after the final whistle, and cleaned his tears as he applauded fans who sang Jota’s song with the melody of “Bad Moon Rising.”
The night began with a minute of emotional silence for Jota and his brother Andre Silva, who died in a car accident. The fans defended the tears as they sang “You will never walk alone.”
Ekitike, who joined Eintracht Frankfurt, was the most impressive of the nearby season signings of the Arne Slot manager in an expenditure spree that exceeded 300 million pounds ($ 406.53 million).
“Obviously, I think it was a good performance, it could do better,” said Ekitike, who raised two fingers in one hand and made one with the other in a tribute to Jota de Liverpool, who carried the number 20, after his goal.
“But the most important thing was to win, the mentality we showed. Obviously we wanted to win tonight for the people who came and for Diogo,” added the 23 -year -old eaves.
The game stopped for several minutes after Ghana International Semenyo of Bournemouth reported racist abuse.
“It’s totally unacceptable,” said Bournemouth captain Adam Smith. “Something in a state of shock, to be honest, happened. It shouldn’t be happening today.
“I do not know how the ANT have played to be honest and come up with those goals … something must be done. We will support it there and we hope it is fine.”
