Incredible impact sub from Diogo Jota rescue a point for Liverpool as Nottingham Forest move second in the Premier League and more defensive success.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest sat 3rd in the league while Liverpool sat top, it would be the team sat 3rd who would score the goal as a counterattack arose and Anthony Elanga put Chris Wood through and he would score to make the game 1-0.
Forest would defend well the rest of the first half and would go into the break with the lead.
Second half Liverpool would come out with more of an urgency being 1-0 down but Forest was still defending incredibly especially Murrilo who was everwhere at the back.
But a tactical substitution from Arne Slot saw Kostas Tsimikas and Diogo Jota come on in the 66th minute and those two would combine with their first touches of the game for both as a Tsimikas corner would be headed home by Jota to make the game 1-1.
With the pressure pilling on to Forest and more chances coming Matz Sels was relied upon to keep the ball out of the net in which he succeeded and kept his team a point with the game ending 1-1.
Alisson Becker - 6
Could not do anything about the goal and made no mistakes in his play at all, past the goal there was also hardly any work for him to do.
Trent Alexander-Arnold - 6
Wasn't the most impactful player today for Liverpool with the monster centre back duo that Forest have stopping crosses and some of his play was good but nothing special, did not have the greatest defensive game against the pace of Callum Hudson-Odoi but not terrible.
Ibrahima Konate - 5
The Frenchman was quite poor today and could have done better with some occasions for example passing was shaky at times but other than that not much to deal with as Forest took an early lead
Virgil Van Dijk - 8
Another really good performance from the Liverpool skipper today again and at times it feels like he is one of the only players trying to defend especially near the start of the game where his defensive teammates were giving the ball away all the time.
Andrew Robertson - 5
A poor performance from the Scottish captain and was really awful from set pieces today on so many occasions not being able to get it past the first man.
Defensively was not bad though especially going up against Elanga.
Ryan Gravenberch - 7
A good performance today being really assured on the ball and recycling play a lot nothing too out of the world as most of the attacking play was wide because of the compactness of Forest but was finding nice pockets in their half to work in.
Filled in centre half at times in the last 25 and played well while he was there.
Alexis Mac Allister - 6
One of his worst performances this season and it is a six which shows you how consistent he is but he got bullied a but in midfield by the muscle of Ryan Yates.
Dominik Szobozlai - 5
A poor frustrating performance to watch because the Hungarian does so many things great but at times he will hold the ball for too long or he will pass when he can shoot.
Mohamed Salah - 5
Another poor performance from Salah and up until the 70th minute did not have any sniff at goal and was partly because of the good defending but also because of the poor attacking from Salah.
Cody Gakpo - 6
Probably the best starting forward on the pitch with him getting a lot of the ball due to the Forest style of defence and he created some chances and almost got himself a goal but could not quite get the end product throughout the game.
Luis Diaz - 5
Had a really difficult time today with the quality of the two centre halves he struggled to find space and had no room to operate and is not the striker to sit on the centre halves shoulders.
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Liverpool Substitutes
Diogo Jota - 9
Was really good when he came on and with his first touch scored the levelling goal and really should have got himself a hat-trick if it was not for some really good saves.
Kostas Tsimikas - 8
Also really good getting an assist with the first touch of the game and doing what Robertson could and beating the first man with a delivery.
Curtis Jones - 7
Had a few poor performances recently when playing but looked lovely when he came on almost creating a chance to win the game.
