Liverpool head coach Arne Slot misplaced his cool however the returning Diogo Jota retained his with a scientific late equaliser to salvage a 2-2 draw at house to Fulham and lengthen the Premier League leaders’ unbeaten run to 19 matches.

Andy Robertson’s first-half crimson card noticed the hosts play greater than 82 minutes with 10 males however backed by a fevered Anfield environment they made gentle of their numerical benefit.

They had been rewarded for his or her optimistic strategy as Jota got here off the bench after an 11-match harm absence to attain in a dramatic end.

Nevertheless, the efficiency of referee Tony Harrington examined the persistence of the usually-calm Slot and his third reserving of the season means he’ll serve a touchline ban at Tottenham subsequent weekend.

The Reds head coach had criticised the shortage of power in Tuesday’s Champions League win in Girona however after the sending off his facet raised the tempo and their recreation as they harried and hassled Fulham and had been finally rewarded with Cody Gakpo’s equalising diving header.

Robertson had been culpable for Andreas Pereira’s Eleventh-minute opener and his try and get better from a poor contact succeeded solely in bringing down Harry Wilson, which Harrington deemed to be a denial of a goalscoring alternative regardless that the ball had rolled to Raul Jimenez who shot over.

The Scotland captain had been on the centre of the motion for the quick time he was on the sphere as in solely the second minute he was caught by a excessive boot by Issa Diop who was solely booked by Harrington, setting the tone for what was to observe.

However he allowed Pereira to search out house on the far put up to volley Antonee Robinson’s cross, which the left-back deflected previous goalkeeper Alisson Becker for the primary purpose at Anfield in seven hours and 20 minutes. Nevertheless, his second mistake was much more expensive.

What adopted was extra chaos than Slot had witnessed in all of his earlier 22 matches as a short-lived swap to a again three, with midfielder Ryan Gravenberch dropping again, was shortly deserted as Joe Gomez moved to left-back and Trent Alexander-Arnold returned to his defensive place on the other flank.

The management which Slot calls for was missing with even the mild-mannered Gomez getting right into a scuffle with Kenny Tete with each lucky to flee with out cautions, one other baffling determination by Harrington.

However with the Liverpool boss sustaining his daring strategy, eschewing the choice of placing on one other defender, Liverpool stepped up the stress however had solely Luis Diaz’s header over to point out for his or her first-half efforts as Sander Berge and Sasa Lukic did an excellent blocking job in entrance of again 4.

Nevertheless, two minutes into the second half, Mohamed Salah reduce in from the fitting and curled a cross to the far put up the place Gakpo scored his seventh in 10 matches, with the Netherlands worldwide then forcing Bernd Leno right into a low save.

Salah’s customary instincts in entrance of purpose abandoned him when he drove large in a four-on-two assault and when Liverpool wanted their star performer most the Egypt worldwide, who had given Robinson a testing time within the first half, was discovered wanting.

That miss seemed pivotal when substitute Rodrigo Muniz deflected in Robinson’s cross 14 minutes from time and after Harvey Elliott and Darwin Nunez each despatched efforts large, Jota proved his lengthy harm lay-off had dulled none of his predatory instincts by sending Leno the improper means from the center of the penalty space.

Alisson’s save from Adama Traore safeguarded the purpose and with Everton doing their neighbours a favour by drawing at Arsenal, Liverpool stretched their lead on the prime to 5 with second-placed Chelsea internet hosting Brentford on Sunday.