Virgil van Dijk was left with “cuts on his knees” after Liverpool celebrated their dramatic winner against Fulham on Sunday.
The two teams played out one of the best Premier League games of the season on Merseyside. Liverpool took the lead when Trent Alexander-Arnold’s stunning free kick crashed against the bar and bounced in off Bernd Leno, before Reds academy graduate Harry Wilson equalised for the visitors in front of the Kop.
Alexis Mac Allister produced an outrageous 25-yard strike to make it 2-1 – scoring his first goal for Liverpool – but Kenny Tete found the net to level the game at half-time. Fulham then took a shock lead when Bobby De Cordova-Reid’s header beat Caoimhin Kelleher with just 10 minutes of normal time remaining.
Yet two goals in two minutes from Wataru Endo and Alexander-Arnold secured the points for Jurgen Klopp’s side. Matchwinner Alexander-Arnold spoke to the media after the game’s remarkable conclusion to reveal Van Dijk’s minor injury.
“I don’t even know if I can sum it (the game) up in one word, delighted really,” Alexander-Arnold told Liverpool’s website at full-time. “We needed the three points with Arsenal getting the result, we needed to stay in touching distance.
At this time of year, the games come thick and fast, if you can pick up momentum in the Christmas and January period and come out with wins going into February and March… this isn’t the right time to drop points.”
Alexander-Arnold admitted Liverpool were “sloppy” to concede three times at home but insists luck wasn’t involved in Fulham’s goals or their comeback. He then discussed the chaotic scenes at Anfield that followed his second goal.
