Man Metropolis, 10-man Liverpool go away it late to safe victories in EPL | Soccer News

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Erling Haaland missed a penalty. Virgil van Dijk was proven a straight crimson card. Trent Alexander-Arnold and Kyle Walker made sloppy defensive errors resulting in objectives. Manchester Metropolis and Liverpool delivered performances rife with errors from their star names within the Premier League on Sunday.

Spanish midfielder #16 Rodri (C) celebrates his go-ahead aim with Manchester Metropolis's Portuguese midfielder #20 Bernardo Silva(AFP)

Late winners ensured they did not show pricey. Metropolis is the one group to win its opening three matches after beating Sheffield United 2-1, however solely due to an 88th-minute aim from Rodri that spared the blushes of Haaland and Walker.

Haaland struck a first-half penalty in opposition to the put up and squandered a slew of different possibilities in an unusually profligate show from the main scorer within the league final season.

He lastly discovered the online — does not he at all times? — within the 63rd to place Metropolis forward however then it was Walker's time to mess up, when he tried a backheel in his personal space and gave up possession from which Sheffield United equalized.

Rodri, the scorer of Metropolis's winner within the Champions League closing in June, got here up with one other well timed aim to proceed the champions' 100% begin to their title protection.

Liverpool left it even later, with substitute Darwin Nunez scoring the second of his objectives within the third minute of stoppage time to earn a 2-1 win at Newcastle that got here regardless of a woeful defensive show by the Reds within the first half at St. James' Park.

After getting booked within the sixth minute after which escaping a sending-off for a cynical foul quickly after, Alexander-Arnold accomplished a hat trick of errors by letting Mohamed Salah's backward cross slip below his boot. That let out Anthony Gordon unchallenged and he slotted a end between Alisson Becker's legs within the twenty fifth.

Then, three minutes later, the often unflappable Van Dijk made a rash sort out — because the final man — on Alexander Isak that earned him a straight crimson card, seemingly ending any lifelike hopes of Liverpool avoiding defeat.

Nevertheless, Nunez took benefit of extra unsure defending, this time from Sven Botman as he did not cope with a through-ball, to equalize within the 81st.

The Uruguay striker then ran onto a cross from Salah to transform an almost-replica end and safe an unlikely triumph.

Newcastle, which is able to play within the Champions League this season, has solely gained one in every of its first three video games, although the Saudi-controlled northeast group has had a troublesome begin in opposition to Aston Villa, Man Metropolis and Liverpool.

Villa was thrashed 5-1 by Newcastle within the opening spherical however has bounced again with two wins, the newest coming at Burnley 3-1 on Sunday. Matty Money, a proper again, scored two of Villa's objectives.

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