Liverpool came back from afar and made up for falling behind with two clean goals, forcing a draw against leaders Arsenal on Sunday in the thirtieth stage of the English Football League , thus providing a service to Manchester City, the second and defending champion.

And Arsenal seemed on its way to its eighth successive victory and regaining the eight-point difference that separates it from Manchester City, who won Saturday at Southampton 4-1, after leading with two goals for the Brazilians Gabriel Martinelli (8) and Gabriel Jesus (28).

But his knot at Anfield, where he fell during his last six league visits and has not emerged victorious from it since September 2012 (2-0), continued after Liverpool narrowed the difference through Egyptian Mohamed Salah (42), who then missed a penalty kick (54). ), before Brazilian substitute Roberto Firmino snatched the equalizer (87).

Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, who shone in the final seconds and avoided his team's fourth defeat of the season, said that the point is better than nothing, telling Sky Sports that there are "mixed feelings, but we will feel after a few days that it is a good point."
He continued, "We found ourselves under pressure for 35 minutes and came back from Anfield with a point. They are a high-class team. It is true that we dropped two points, but we could have dropped three. I think we were excellent. We were good for 50-60 minutes... We have to get back to building." Again, a point is much better than nothing.”

With its fourth draw this season, Spanish coach Mikel Arteta's team raised its score to 73 points in the lead, 6 points ahead of City, who has a postponed match, while Liverpool's score is now 44 points in eighth place.

And this tie will not relieve the pressure on German coach Jurgen Klopp, since since the sweeping victory over rivals Manchester United 7-0 in the twenty-sixth stage, Liverpool did not taste victory in its next five matches, as it lost to Bournemouth (0-1) and Manchester City (1-1). 4) And Spanish Real Madrid (0-1) in the second leg of the Champions League final, and tied with Chelsea (0-0) and Arsenal in the last two stages.

Arsenal struck early and opened the scoring from the eighth minute after a mistake by Dutch defender Virgil van Dyck, who failed to intercept a pass from the Norwegian Martin Odegaard to Martinelli, so he gifted the ball to the latter, who penetrated into the area and followed it on the ground to the right of Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson, thus raising his tally to 14 goals in the league. this season.

Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko was close to adding the second goal for the guests with a shot from outside the area, but Alisson excelled in defending his goal (12).

Liverpool waited until the 20th minute to threaten Ramsdale's goal through his defender Andrew Robertson, but the Scotsman's shot went past the left post.

This opportunity was the beginning of the awakening of the “Reds”, who pressed in search of an equalizer, but the goal came from the opposite side with a Brazilian flavor, through a header by Jesus, after a cross from his compatriot Martinelli (28), scoring his third goal in his fourth match in the Premier League after returning from an injury he suffered with His country's national team in the World Cup Qatar kept him out of action for four months.
But Salah returned Liverpool to the atmosphere of the meeting before the end of the first half after a team game and a series of passes inside the area between Curtis Jones and the Portuguese Diogo Jota and captain Jordan Henderson, who had the decisive pass from which the “Pharaoh” scored his thirteenth goal in the league this season (42).

Liverpool was very close to ending the first half tied after a double chance, which Jota started with a shot from a narrow angle.

At the end of the first half, Robertson went to assistant referee Konstantine Hadjidakis to protest, and the latter raised his arm and hit the Scotsman in the face on his neck, which led to a wave of protests by Liverpool players, according to pictures by "Sky Sports".
Robertson shouted: "He elbowed me in the throat, the linesman hit me in the throat!"

After the match, the authority responsible for professional arbitration in England indicated, in a press statement, that it had “knowledge of the incident of Assistant Referee Assistant Referee Constantin Hadjidakis and Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson,” adding, “We will study the matter in detail after the match.”
Klopp's men started the second half with great pressure and got a golden opportunity to equalize from a penalty kick that Jota grabbed from Rob Holding, but Salah missed it after he hit the ball next to the right post (54), then the Egyptian scorer got the opportunity to compensate with a shot from inside the area, but Ramsdale starred in his face (57).

After that, the two teams exchanged opportunities, the most prominent of which was the Uruguayan substitute Darwin Nunes, who almost equalized, but collided with the brilliance of Ramsdale, but without any of them succeeding in reaching the net until the 87th minute, when Firmino succeeded with a header after a cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold to equalize.

Liverpool pressed in the last seconds in search of snatching the victory and was close to that through Salah (5 + 90) and Frenchman Ibrahima Konate (6 + 90), but Ramsdale shone in defending his own goal.

Crystal Palace continued its revival under the leadership of its new-old coach Roy Hodgson, with a landslide victory over Leeds United 5-1, in a match that started lagging behind with a goal by Patrick Bamford (21) before returning at the end of the first half thanks to Mark Guehi (1 + 45) and then completing the return. In the second, with goals from Ghanaian Jordan Ayew (53 and 77), Ibrishi Eze (55) and French Odson Edouard (69).
Hodgson took over the job on March 21, succeeding Frenchman Patrick Vieira, who had originally arrived in the position, succeeding the 75-year-old.
Hodgson succeeded in his first match by defeating Leicester City 2-1 in the last stage, putting an end to the series of consecutive matches that the London team played without winning at 13 in all competitions, and then on Sunday he was able to add a second victory in his second match led by the team that supervised It is between September 2017 and May 2021.

This is Palace’s first victory in the Leeds stronghold in all competitions since March 2006 (1-0 in the second-level league) and the first in the Premier League since August 1997 (2-0).