The Reds suffered an enormous setback on the south coast.
Liverpool noticed their 13-game unbeaten run led to dramatic vogue as Amine Adli’s Ninety fifth-minute winner gave Bournemouth a 3-2 victory on the Vitality Stadium.
Arne Slot’s responded to dropping factors in opposition to Burnley final weekend by beating Marseille comprehensively 3-0 within the Champions League.
Nevertheless, the struggles which have outlined their failing title defence had been shortly uncovered as Bournemouth scored twice within the area of seven minutes to take command by Evanilson and Alex Jimenez.
Virgil van Dijk, at fault for each of these targets, pulled one again earlier than half-time, and Liverpool would have been assured of turning the sport on its head when the as soon as once more spectacular Dominik Szoboszlai levelled with one other superb free-kick 10 minutes from the top of regular time.
But Bournemouth didn’t sit again in an effort to accept a share of the spoils and, after a James Hill lengthy throw brought on chaos within the Liverpool field, Adli stabbed house on the second try and condemn the champions to a dangerous defeat within the race for a spot within the Premier League high 4.
Liverpool remain fourth, however may very well be leapfrogged by Manchester United, Chelsea and Newcastle United on Sunday. United face leaders Arsenal, Chelsea go to Crystal Palace and Newcastle host Aston Villa.
Bournemouth’s seven-minute blitz
Liverpool dictated the early going with fluent attacking play, however they had been punished for a scarcity of leading edge as Bournemouth twice made the a lot of the Reds’ defensive frailties.
Van Dijk’s incapacity to correctly cope with an extended ball ahead from Marcos Senesi allowed Alex Scott to tug again for Evanilson to show house a Twenty sixth-minute opener, with centre-back Joe Gomez injured as he collided with Allison amid his efforts to forestall the objective.
Liverpool had been nonetheless ready to exchange Gomez when Bournemouth made it 2-0.
Jimenez was then performed onside by Van Dijk as he latched onto James Hill’s glorious throughball, the Spaniard making no mistake with a superb end.
Florian Wirtz drove narrowly huge as Liverpool sought to discover a route again into the competition, and so they got one when Van Dijk flicked house Szoboszlai’s nook on the close to submit.
Late present stuns Liverpool
Regardless of dominating possession, Liverpool struggled to vogue clear-cut possibilities for an equaliser, nevertheless it arrived by extra set-piece brilliance from Szoboszlai, who repeated the trick after scoring with a low free-kick in opposition to Marseille, this time going across the wall and discovering the bottom-right nook after Mohamed Salah backheeled the ball into his path.
Bournemouth responded fantastically, Ryan Christie seeing a curling effort tipped over by Alisson and Evanilson someway firing narrowly huge of the close to submit after being performed in by Christie.
Djordje Petrovic produced a fingertip save to show a Wirtz effort across the submit, however that was the final time the Bournemouth objective was actually threatened, as their attacking ambition was rewarded with a scrappy however decisive objective that despatched them 10 factors away from the underside three and can, within the coming days, enhance the scrutiny on Liverpool boss Slot.
