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29	September 2019

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When Andros Townsend fired the ball past Alisson at Anfield on Saturday afternoon www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/portugal , it was not just Crystal Palace fans who were celebrating. Supporters of Manchester City, who began the weekend four points behind leaders Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title, were also full of cheer as they contemplated a repeat of the upset which saw Roy Hodgson�s men win 3-2 at the Eithad Stadium last month.In the end, another odds-defying away win proved a step too far for Palace. Townsend may have given them the lead after some excellent work by Wilfried Zaha down the left flank, but goals from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino early in the second half put Liverpool back in control. Palace were not done there, though, levelling the scores in the 65th minute after James Tomkins headed home his first goal of the season from a Luka Milivojevic corner.Salah then took advantage of a mistake from stand-in goalkeeper Julian Speroni to make it 3-2, before Sadio Mane doubled the hosts� lead in stoppage time after James Milner had been dismissed for a second bookable offence. There was still more drama to come as Max Meyer converted Palace�s third in the dying stages, but Liverpool held on to temporarily move seven points clear at the summit of the standings ahead of City�s clash with Huddersfield Town on Sunday.It was a thrilling match which was not in keeping with how Liverpool�s season has gone up to now. Prior to the weekend, Jurgen Klopp�s men had conceded only 10 goals in 22 games, which was comfortably the best record in the top flight, and kept a league-high 13 clean sheets. Unlike Liverpool teams of previous seasons, the 2018/19 version have demonstrated an ability to control and manage games, rather than simply outgun opponents in end-to-end encounters.Saturday�s game was a throwback to the Liverpool sides of 2017/18 Cheap Russia Soccer Team Uniform , whose results in all competitions included a 4-3 win and three 3-3 draws, and 2016/17, which opened with a 4-3 victory at Arsenal and also featured a 4-3 loss to Bournemouth, a 4-2 defeat of Palace and a shock 3-2 reverse against Swansea City.The signings of Alisson and Virgil van Dijk last year are a big reason for Liverpool�s improved solidity, but Klopp also deserves credit for making structural changes to his team. It is significant that the Merseysiders no longer have to play at 100 miles per hour to win games, although they do retain the capacity to blow teams away in short bursts if the situation calls for it.It is that ability which helped them reach the Champions League final last term, but a more measured style was always likely to be necessary if Liverpool were going to end their long wait for a 19th league title. Klopp will therefore hope that Saturday�s helter-skelter success against Palace was a one-off; although another 14 4-3 victories would guarantee Liverpool the championship crown, it is not really a sustainable way to triumph in a title race.Hodgson, meanwhile, will take great encouragement from his team�s display, even if they ultimately left Anfield empty-handed. As well as Speroni�s error, Liverpool relied on good fortune for two more goals, with deflections playing a helping hand in Salah�s first strike and Firmino�s effort too. The home side were the better team overall, but Palace certainly gave them a scare with their counter-attacking threat.The performance of Wilfried Zaha was perhaps the biggest positive for the south Londoners. The Ivory Coast international has not been at his best in recent weeks www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/spain , when he has often been deployed alongside Andros Townsend up front. Zaha remains most dangerous when he can square up to full-backs in wide areas, and it was no surprise to see him give makeshift right-back Milner a torrid time on Saturday afternoon.�This was a good performance, in many ways. It was a good performance in both halves. In the first-half our defensive organisation and discipline was excellent, we went in 1-0 thanks to a couple of good counter attacks, one of which presented a goal,� Hodgson told reporters in his post-match press conference.�I�m extremely proud of the players� performance. I thought it was a really good team performance in every respect and we are playing against a team that don�t lose at home anyway and have got a lot of very talented players.�They have a wealth of talent which has been put together over a period of years and has cost a fair degree of money into the bargain. I thought that for large periods of the game we held our own � more than held our own � against then towards the end of the game.� CAIRO (AP) � Riyad Mahrez scored from a free kick in the fifth minute of injury time as Algeria beat Nigeria 2-1 on Sunday and progressed to the African Cup of Nations final against Sadio Mane�s Senegal.Mahrez thundered his left-footed match-winner into the net in effectively the last kick of the game to stunningly settle the semifinal at Cairo International Stadium.Algeria will play for a second African title and first in nearly 30 years in Friday�s final. Senegal goes for its first African Cup title after 54 years of trying.The teams met in the group stage at this tournament when Algeria won 1-0.The final will also feature an intriguing Premier League subplot as Manchester City�s Mahrez comes up against Liverpool�s Mane.Senegal went through after beating Tunisia 1-0 in an extra-time thriller at the 30 June Stadium across Cairo.Both semifinals had dramatic VAR moments, with the referee video review system being used for the first time at the African Cup this year. The referees made good use of it in the semis, with two drawn-out decisions.Algeria led Nigeria through a first-half own-goal by William Troost-Ekong. Mahrez�s cross deflected off another Nigerian defender, then hit Troost-Ekong in the midriff and went in.Algeria was pegged back when Nigeria was given a penalty for handball after a long VAR referral by Gambian referee Bakary Gassama, who initially didn�t award the spot-kick. A shot by Oghenekaro Etebo hit his own teammate Odion Ighalo and the arm of Algeria defender Aissa Mandi at just about the same time. Gassama didn�t give it at first, then referred to the TV screen on the sidelines more than a minute later and went back for the penalty.Nigeria took its opportunity � contentious as it was � to level at 1-1 from the spot through Ighalo.But Algeria captain Mahrez won it at the very death, hammering his free kick into the net and sprinting half the length of the field to celebrate with teammates on the bench.�This free kick arrived and, with the quality of a player like Mahrez, it�s a massive chance at a goal Cheap USA Soccer Team Uniform ,� Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi said. �Thank God we made it.�There were tense moments off the field at Cairo International also as Algerian fans and local Egyptian spectators began throwing plastic bottles at each other over a fence that separated them. Some of the Egyptians had started to cheer for Nigeria over Egypt�s North African rivals.Lines of yellow vested security personnel were brought into the stands to stand between the supporters.Senegal won the first semifinal with an own-goal in the 100th minute when Tunisia goalkeeper Mouez Hassen pushed a free kick onto the head of defender Dylan Bronn and the ball bounced back into the goal.It was another game of high drama.On a day when the sports world was treated to epic contests at the Wimbledon men�s tennis final and the Cricket World Cup final, the African Cup held up its end of the bargain.Senegal and Tunisia both missed penalties within a few minutes of each other in regulation time.Tunisia was then given another penalty late in extra time only for referee Bamlak Tessema Weyesa to check the VAR TV screen on the sidelines and dramatically reverse his decision � to the dismay of the Tunisians.Tunisia should have gone ahead after winning the first penalty in the 73rd, when Ferjani Sassi�s shot hit the upper arm of Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly as he threw himself in the way to block it.Sassi took the penalty himself but Senegal goalkeeper Alfred Gomis saved easily.Senegal had its chance almost straight after, with Ismaila Sarr hacked down in the area.Henri Saivet took the spot-kick instead of Mane, who missed two penalties earlier in the tournament. His penalty was low and hard to the bottom right corner, but Hassen dived full-stretch and brilliantly deflected it away with his left hand.Hassen was responsible for deciding Tunisia�s fate, though.In extra time, he went to punch away a free kick but only forced it onto Bronn�s head and it rebounded into the net.The most contentious moment came right near the end after Senegal�s Idrissa Gueye was initially penalized for another handball in the area. The ball was headed down by a teammate and struck Gueye�s hand as he tried to pull it away at the side of his body.Ethiopian referee Weyesa awarded the penalty, then decided to make the long run over to the sidelines to check with the VAR.After another long delay, he ran back onto the field waving his arms to signal no penalty.Senegal has made it to just one final before, in 2002. Current Senegal coach Aliou Cisse was a member of that 2002 team and he dropped to his knees with arms held aloft in celebration at the final whistle.