Wolves 3-0 Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp’s woes deepen as big win lifts home side out of relegation zone

unexpectedly, Jurgen Klopp’s woes deepen as big win lifts home side out of relegation zone making matters more than was predicted. 

The report and highlights from the free game, including Joel Matip’s own goal, Craig Dawson’s own goal and a Ruben Neves shot, give Wolves a comfortable win over Liverpool. Julen Lopetegui’s side are 15th while Jurgen Klopp’s out-of-form Reds remain 10th

Joel Matip’s own goal, followed by Craig Dawson’s opener, put Liverpool in danger early on and although the visitors ran hard in the second half, it was Wolves captain Ruben Neves who sealed the win. victory for Julen Lopetegui’s men at a jubilant Molineux.

It’s a fourth game without a Premier League win for Klopp’s runaway side and there have been problems at both ends of the pitch for his side here in what was a goal-line repeat at Brighton in the month last. Liverpool remain tenth in the table.

As for Wolves, Everton’s victory over Arsenal had put the pressure on before kick-off and plunged them into the last three, but they played as a side capable of much more than scraping the bottom of the table. The three points lift them three places to 15th place, leaving Liverpool in disarray.

PLAYER RATTING

Wolves: Sa (8), Semedo (7), Dawson (9), Kilman (8), Ait-Nouri (7), Nunes (7), Neves (9), Lemina (9), Sarabia (7), Cunha (7), Huang (7).

Subs: Traore (8), Moutinho (7), Jimenez (5), Podence (n/a), Jonny (n/a).

Liverpool: Alisson (6), Alexander-Arnold (6), Gomez (4), Matip (4), Robertson (6), Bajcetic (6), Thiago (6), Keita (5), Salah (6), Nunez (5), Gakpo (6).

Subs: Milner (5), Henderson (6), Elliott (6), Oxlade-Chamberlain (n/a), Tsimikas (n/a). How Wolves surprised Liverpool

HOW WOLVES SUPRISED LIVERPOOL

There was a top-flight atmosphere at Molineux early on and the home side responded with a positive start which quickly netted two goals.

Pablo Sarabia, making his first launch since leaving Paris Saint-Germain, was the architect of the first.

His slicked ball behind a static defense found Hee-chan Hwang and the winger’s drilled reduction distracted Matip, crawling over Alisson and down the line despite Trent Alexander-Arnold’s best efforts. The wolves fed on the trust he placed in them.

Wolves made four changes to the side that lost to Manchester City, with Pablo Sarabia and Craig Dawson making their starting XI for the first time.

Rayan Ait-Nouri and Matheus Cunha are also back in the squad. Hugo Bueno, Nathan Collins, Raul Jimenez and Adama Traore were the four who fell to the bench.

There were three changes for the Chelsea-held Liverpool at Anfield, most recently in the Premier League, with Darwin Nunez returning alongside Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joel Matip.

The injured Ibrahima Konate made his way along with Harvey Elliott and James Milner.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp with Mohamed Salah (Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Jurgen Klopp has told Mohamed Salah to just ‘let it go’ as the Liverpool forward approaches a historic afternoon amid a mini-goal drought.

Salah is set to play his 200th league game for the Reds at Wolverhampton Wanderers today to set a goalscoring record for the club in that era, having already netted 125 in the top flight.

The Egyptian is two more goals than Roger Hunt and three more than Ian Rush after 200 games and needs one more goal to match Gordon Hodgson in his next game.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp with Mohamed Salah (Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Jurgen Klopp has told Mohamed Salah to just ‘let it go’ as the Liverpool forward approaches a historic afternoon amid a mini-goal drought.

Salah is set to play his 200th league game for the Reds at Wolverhampton Wanderers today to set a goalscoring record for the club in that era, having already netted 125 in the top flight.

The Egyptian has scored twice more than Roger Hunt and three more than Ian Rush after 200 games, and will need one more in his next appearance to match Gordon Hodgson’s tally.

While Salah – who signed a lucrative new contract in the summer – has scored 17 goals this season, he has scored just one in his last seven appearances and was guilty of a nasty blunder in last season’s FA Cup fourth round defeat and Hove Albion.

But Klopp defended the 30-year-old and is confident the striker will be back on the scoresheet soon.

“Attitude is not Mo’s problem,” said the Reds boss. “He IS a world-class athlete. He is first in and last out and works hard.

Now he’s not scoring, but I think there are people who say ‘why did they give Klopp a new contract?’ This is the world we live in and that’s perfectly fine.

“If we don’t deliver on time, there is criticism. You can question the character, the knowledge, the skill, everything. But you can’t score the goals that Mo scored unless you are an outstanding world-class footballer. Even then, you can’t do it all the time.

“He just has to let it go. There were times he would have scored last year.

The Brighton game, 100 per cent, is a goal and now it’s not.” Do you think it has to do with the new contract? It’s just not fair.”

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane and Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford are the only Premier League players to score more club goals than Salah this season.
And Klopp added: “Things are the way they are and the only way for us to stop all these issues is to play at our highest level and that’s what we’ll do. We’ll get the job done. It won’t happen. not overnight.

We have taken action. It’s not that what we said four weeks ago was useless and we haven’t learned anything. We are really on it and we are positive.

“We want to play the games and believe in our chance to create something special thisyear as well. We won’t be first at the moment, but we are in a position where we can improve a lot. Tomorrow we will play and start from there”.