Tottenham Hotspur's nightmare run of results against Liverpool continued at Anfield on Sunday afternoon. Ryan Mason watched his side come back from 3-0 down to equalise in the 90th minute - but the game still had one last twist before full-time.
The Reds found themselves 3-0 up inside 15 minutes with many away fans heading for the exits as they did at St. James' Park the previous Sunday. Goals from Curtis Jones, Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah saw Jurgen Klopp's side race into an early lead, with many Spurs fans sensing a repeat of the Newcastle result.
Harry Kane pulled one back before half-time before Son Heung-min grabbed a second with 13 minutes still to play. Richarlison then scored his first Premier League goal of the season to equalise in the dying minutes to send the away end wild, only for a Lucas Moura error to allow Diogo Jota to race through and score a late, late winner.
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Jota was lucky to be on the pitch after he kicked Oliver Skipp in the head - but failed to receive a red card for his dangerous challenge. With that being said, football.london takes a look at how the national media reacted to Spurs' defeat at Anfield.
Tottenham were at sixes and sevens in the first half against Liverpool - well, in the first 15 minutes at least. But Mason's men were largely the better team after the break and a series of Klopp substitutes actually helped Spurs get back into the game at Anfield.
It was in many ways similar to the United match as Spurs grew into the contest after the break and adapted well to their opponent's tactical changes. Son has been quiet in recent weeks but rattled both posts against the Reds as the urgency of Kane influenced his side to keep fighting.
The Korean helped reduce the deficit further after Kane's consolation goal but ultimately Spurs' slow start meant they'd given themselves too much to do.
To make sense of the madness, the first place to visit is the 120 seconds in injury time. There you will find two goals, a yellow card and Jurgen Klopp nursing a pulled hamstring.
Occasionally the Premier League throws up a game that has more twists and turns than a Hitchcock thriller and poor Ryan Mason, Tottenham's caretaker manager, looked haunted by the outcome after his team threw it all away. They were Saboteurs, if you will.
This should have been an afternoon when a feather was placed in Mason's cap, as he somehow coaxed and cajoled a response from a group who looked like they were about to be humiliated for the second consecutive Sunday in a row.
Richarlison, without a goal in his previous 22 Premier League appearances, had emerged from the substitutes' bench to score an injury-time equaliser. This was the first time since March 1997 that Liverpool had allowed a three-goal lead to slither away at home and Klopp was aghast.
But these two teams have been unpredictable all season. Perhaps this was fire and petrol meeting, guaranteeing an explosion, and so it proved as Diogo Jota – whom Mason was adamant should not have been on the pitch – went up the field and won it. Hitchcock would have enjoyed the Frenzy.
Tottenham relived their nightmares at Anfield. There was a repeat of the Newcastle ordeal, ticket refunds due again, redemption in the form of a three-goal comeback, no refunds required, then the final blow of gifting Liverpool a 94th-minute winner with one more calamitous lapse. Torment stalks Spurs on their travels.
The interim manager Ryan Mason was at least spared the scrutiny that befell Cristian Stellini following the 6-1 rout at St James’ Park last Sunday, although it looked ominous when Jürgen Klopp’s team sauntered into a three-goal lead after 15 minutes. “I’d be lying if I say there wasn’t a bit of fear at that point,” Mason said.
Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and the former Everton forward Richarlison, scoring his first league goal for the club in the 93rd minute, appeared to have conjured a stunning reprieve only for a dreadful error by Lucas Moura to help Liverpool off the floor. The Spurs substitute played a woeful backpass straight to Diogo Jota 99 seconds after Richarlison’s equaliser and the Liverpool striker shattered the visitors with a clinical finish past Fraser Forster.
From agony to ecstasy and back again, Spurs’ terrible record at Anfield continues. Liverpool’s defending also left much to be desired but their quality in attack carried them onwards and upwards into fifth, leapfrogging Spurs in the process. But only just.
Mason claimed Jota should not have been on the pitch to score the winner having caught Oliver Skipp in the face with a raised boot. Skipp had earlier escaped sanction for a horrible foul on Luis Díaz. Klopp, incensed that Mohamed Salah had not been awarded a free-kick moments before Spurs’ equaliser, celebrated the winner by sprinting up to the face of the fourth official John Brooks.
The manager pulled a hamstring in the process and was rightly booked for his disgraceful behaviour. The pain, however, belonged entirely to the visitors.
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