BY OUR MAN AT THE COTTAGE
ARNE SLOT’S billion-pound brigade of superstars were sensationally sent packing from West London with only a point after Harrison Reed’s last-gasp miracle cancelled out the Reds’ star power.
On a day where Mohamed Salah and Florian Wirtz were expected to run riot, it was a local hero who stole the headlines and left Liverpool’s global icons looking like Sunday League amateurs.
VAN THE PANIC
The drama started when the world’s most expensive defender, Virgil van Dijk, was caught napping.
The Dutch giant—usually the coolest man in the building—was caught playing Harry Wilson onside, allowing the former Red to fire the Cottagers into a shock lead.
Liverpool’s superstars looked shell-shocked. Alexis Mac Allister and Luis Diaz huffed and puffed, but Marco Silva’s men refused to be intimidated by the heavyweights.
MAGIC MAC AND WIRTZ
It took a moment of pure class from German sensation Florian Wirtz to get the Reds level.
The £100m man showed exactly why he’s the hottest property in Europe, ghosting into the box to finish a move started by the tireless Conor Bradley.
But even with Cody Gakpo coming off the bench to score what everyone thought was a 94th-minute winner, the script had one final, cruel twist for the Liverpool galacticos.
With the game deep into “Fergie Time,” Harrison Reed decided he didn’t care about reputations. He picked up the ball 30 yards out and sent a laser-guided missile past Alisson Becker, the man many call the best keeper on the planet.
The superstar Reds could only watch in horror as the ball hit the back of the net, proving that in the Premier League, price tags don’t buy you three points.
