It’s not just the red-shirted masses inside Anfield who should have been toasting Divock Origi following his stoppage time winner for Liverpool against Everton.
Some goals mean more than others and carry a greater significance than what they mean over 90 minutes — or 96 minutes, in the case of this dramatic Merseyside derby. Just ask Jurgen Klopp. His crazy celebration, when he ran 40 yards onto the pitch before jumping for joy with goalkeeper Alisson Becker, was not simply because Liverpool had beaten Everton.
This has become the most one-sided big derby in football, so Klopp is accustomed to beating Everton. The reason he celebrated so wildly was because Origi’s goal kept Liverpool alive and kicking in the Premier League title race and his outpouring of emotion was a mixture of joy and relief.wholesale cheap nfl jersey china
“I have to apologise because I didn’t want to be disrespectful but I couldn’t stop myself,” Klopp said. “It just happened!
“If I could describe it [how he feels] then I would have control over it.”
Aside from thousands of disconsolate Evertonians and those of a blue persuasion in Manchester, Origi’s header — which came six minutes into what had supposed to be four minutes of stoppage time — was a goal that might just be regarded by everyone else as the one that keeps the 2018-19 title race alive. We’re still not even at the halfway stage of the season, but with City showing signs of invincibility at the top of the table, any failure by Liverpool to beat their neighbours at Anfield on Sunday would have given the champions at least a four-point cushion — five, if Everton had won at Anfield for the first time since 1999.
City have only dropped four points in 14 games already this season and they will drop more between now and May, but giving them a four-point advantage in the first week of December would leave the chasing pack with virtually no margin for error over the second half of the season.cheap wholesale nfl jerseys china
Third-placed Chelsea are already seven points off the pace, with Unai Emery’s resurgent Arsenal a point further behind in fourth despite being unbeaten in the Premier League since August. Both Chelsea and Arsenal have made hugely impressive starts to the season under new managers in Maurizio Sarri and Emery respectively, but nobody really believes they can beat City to the title. And so, it’s all down to Liverpool, which is why they simply couldn’t afford to drop points against Everton.
As early as it is, being four points behind one of the best teams ever seen in the Premier League era would feel like an unbridgeable gap, even though Liverpool have conceded just five goals in the league all season.
