Liverpool Vs Norwich City : Five points to take away with Canaries demolition at the Anfield

#4 Nervous Norwich City bullied by Liverpool

As mentioned in the previous point, everything went downhill for Norwich City after they conceded the first goal. The inexperienced defence line of Norwich City made mistakes, and in return, Liverpool did not spare even a chance.

Several errors by the Canaries were schoolboy ones. During Mohamed Salah’s goal, the defence looked clueless, and since they did not know the location of the ball, the Egyptian International swept the ball away and scored past Tim Krul.

Moreover, Liverpool were also able to physically dominate Norwich City players. Van Dijk while scoring did not even jump to even out-beat his marksman to make the score 3-0. The physical superiority by Van Dijk bullied Norwich City defence.

Probably, if Norwich did not have conceded the first goal so early, the fight in this match could have been even more intense, as Norwich, in the beginning, looked prepared.

#3 First goal of the season is an own goal

An own goal to kick off the Premier League season 😳 pic.twitter.com/gTBGRii7He

— B/R Football (@brfootball) August 9, 2019

Everybody remained stunned when the first goal of the new season of the Premier League came as a surprise. Since it was too early in the game, Liverpool got a 1-0 lead and first goal of the season in the 7th minute of the first match of the campaign.

On top of it, it was an own goal to everyone’s surprise. Divock Origi was dribbling in the left-wing and competing against Max Aarons. The Belgian International did out-beat the young right-back and made a diagonal shot towards the goal.

Surely the ball was not going inside the net, and Krul could have dealt with it, but Norwich City’s captain made a huge blunder as he made a huge deflection off the shot, which directly went inside the goal to give the first goal of the season.

The sight was rare and shocking at the same time, but the goal surely brought Norwich City’s morale down, and the Canaries went up to concede three more in the next forty minutes.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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