{"id":11148,"date":"2022-01-17T00:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=181845"},"modified":"2022-01-17T00:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:42:47","slug":"liverpool-defeat-brentford-by-3-goals-secure-second-place-in-the-points-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-defeat-brentford-by-3-goals-secure-second-place-in-the-points-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool defeat Brentford by 3 goals, secure second place in the points table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool has secured second place in the Premier League 2021\/22 points table as they beat Brentford on Sunday. Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men scored three goals without conceding a single. It was a deserving three points for the Reds as they were completely dominating throughout the 90 minutes. The victory lead them to 2nd position, two points above Thomas Tuchel\u2019s Chelsea who dropped a crucial three points after getting defeated by Pep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City on Saturday. Even when the Reds have undertaken Chelsea in the points table they still have one game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The game against Brentford was a crucial one for both the teams as Liverpool wanted to go close to the table-toppers Manchester City and Brentford who did have a great run of form at the start of the season was trying to find that rhythm again. It was Reds\u2019 midfielder Fabinho who gave the lead to the host as his header was too powerful that it got past Brentford\u2019s goalkeeper. The half-time score was 1-0 to Reds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\uddda\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude01 \ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddfb, \ud835\udde5\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf1\ud835\ude00! \ud83d\udd34\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dXOw6ZGwi7\">pic.twitter.com\/dXOw6ZGwi7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1482742400397230082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool was playing with the same intensity in the second half as well. In the 69th minute, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain made it more difficult for the visitors to make a comeback in this game as his sliding heading goal doubles the lead for the host. It was 2-0 with just 20 minutes remaining on the watch. Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men didn\u2019t stop after their 2nd goal as they found another one a few minutes later when Takumi Minamino who came from the bench scored the last goal of the match. It was a mistake from Brentford\u2019s holding midfielder who gave it away to the host and the host made no mistake in making the scoreline 3-0. It was a birthday goal for Minamino. Even though the Reds were playing without their star forward Mohamed Salah, they were brilliant and played with the same energy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three goals \u26bd\ufe0f<br \/>Three points \u2705<\/p>\n<p>A good afternoon at Anfield \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVBRE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LIVBRE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NfnQX3oCwj\">pic.twitter.com\/NfnQX3oCwj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1482744388832927749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool has defeated Brentford in the Premier League on Sunday as the visitors conceded three goals without a single reply. Jurgen Klopp\u2019s men are now sitting 2nd in the table two points above Chelsea with a game in hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":33624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2147,2549,2836,1126,219,220,2428,359,453],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-brentford","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-fabinho","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-thomas-tuchel"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}