The 33rd round of the English Premier League continued, in the two games just played, Liverpool lost 0:1 at home to Crystal Palace, the league has been winless for two rounds, the first to collapse in the top three, and can only be ranked third, Crystal Palace ended their two consecutive defeats. In the other game, West Ham United lost 0:2 at home to Fulham, missing out on Manchester United in the standings and still in eighth place, Manchester United narrowly retained seventh place, and Fulham also ended a two-game losing streak.
Liverpool 0:1 Crystal Palace
Liverpool have given up on the Europa League, losing 0-4 to Atalanta to focus on the league title, and in yesterday's game, Manchester City beat Luton Town 5-1 to take the first three points, leaving the pressure on Liverpool and Arsenal.
In this game, Liverpool fielded a good start, Salah, Nunez and Dias partnered up front, McAllister, Endo and Jones sat in the midfield, the back line was Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk and Robertson, the goalkeeper was on the bench in Kelleher, and Alisson started.
In the first half of the game, in the 14th minute, the Crystal Palace team played a wonderful match on the left side of the front, Mitchell made an inverted triangle pass from the bottom line, Eze easily pushed the goal unmarked, and Liverpool fell behind 0:1.
Virgil van Dijk then slipped and Mateta had a one-on-one chance to fire a volley past the goalkeeper and was cleared off the line by Robertson as Liverpool escaped. A Liverpool corner caused chaos in the Crystal Palace penalty area, and Endo pushed a shot off the crossbar.
In the second half, Endo went off the field, Szobosloy came off the bench, then Bradley went off injured, Alexander-Arnold came off the bench, Liverpool kept adjusting the lineup, Gakpo and Jota also came on as substitutes, but Jota wasted a close-range shot opportunity, the shot was blocked by the defender, and the equalizer was wasted.
In the next game, Jones missed with a single chance, Salah's shot in the box was blocked by the defender's goal line, and Liverpool had 17 shots on goal, but they couldn't score and had no choice but to accept a defeat.
West Ham United 0:2 Fulham
Yesterday's 2-2 draw with Bournemouth gave West Ham the chance to leapfrog United in the table with a win over Fulham. However, West Ham United have just finished a Europa League game against Bayer Leverkusen and are certainly not as good as Fulham in terms of fitness.
In the first half of the game, in the 9th minute, Mavropanos made a mistake in stopping the ball, and the stop turned into an assist, Pereira pushed and scored, and Fulham took the lead to break the deadlock 1:0.
In the 72nd minute, Iwobi crossed from the right, and Pereira pushed the goal in front of the goal to complete the brace, and Fulham extended the lead 2:0.