Liverpool 1 Leeds United 2: Late Crysencio Summerville strike has Whites back to winning ways - YEP 29/10/22
Leeds United ended a horrible run of eight games without a win by sealing a brilliant 2-1 victory at Saturday evening's Premier League hosts Liverpool as Crysencio Summerville bagged an 89th-minute winner.
By Lee Sobot
Jesse Marsch’s side went ahead in just the fourth minute
after a gift from the Reds left Rodrigo with a tap-in. Defender Joe Gomez
looked to play a simple back pass to keeper Alisson from the right flank but
Alisson lost his footing trying to collect the wayward effort and Rodrigo could
not miss from close range.
Liverpool drew level just ten minutes later as Leeds failed
to deal with two crosses, the second of which from Andy Robertson looped
towards the back post before being prodded home by Mo Salah. Both teams then
had chances to bag the game's third goal and Brenden Aaronson’s volley from
close range smashed back off the crossbar.
Leeds bossed the start of the second half as Patrick Bamford
was brought on to replace Rodrigo but Illan Meslier saved the day in the 66th
minute when denying Darwin Nunez who was in one-on-one after Liam Cooper had
lost the ball to Salah at the back.
Eighteen-year-old Italian international striker Wily Gnonto
was then finally handed his Whites debut in replacing Jack Harrison with 18
minutes left and Leeds wasted a glorious chance to bag an 81st-minute winner
when Bamford could not control the ball after being played in on goal by Summerville.
But after some brilliant saves from Meslier, Summerville
bagged Leeds an 89th-minute winner when squeezing the ball home in the area
following brilliant work from Gnonto whose low cross was flicked on by Bamford.
The victory propelled Leeds up the table from second-bottom to 15th ahead of
next weekend’s return to action at home to Bournemouth.
