Liverpool’s goals vs Fulham – ranked

‘Liverpool 2.0’ this, ‘mentality monsters’ that. The Reds’ fanbase have often been derided for overrating their favourite stars, but they’ve been proven right so far this season.

Jurgen Klopp’s side are second in the Premier League standings heading into the dreaded winter run-in, sitting only two points behind leaders Arsenal. Their only domestic defeat has come at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur – a loss which saw Liverpool reduced to nine men and a goal wrongly ruled out for offside after the greatest VAR blunder in history.

In their latest escape act, Liverpool overturned a 3-2 deficit at home to Fulham with three minutes of regulation time remaining. All four goals scored by the hosts were crackers in their own rights.

How do they compare with each other, though? We love a good ranking at 90min. This is prime fodder round these parts.

Someone needs to start a petition to have these kinds of goals awarded to the free-kick taker.

If Trent Alexander-Arnold’s set piece had simply crossed the line after crashing the underside of the crossbar and not bounced backwards off the head of Bernd Leno, it’d be two spots higher on this list.

But hey, it didn’t. It did hit poor Leno’s cranium. We can’t live with regret, we can only move forwards. Some day the world may be a just place, but not today.

Wataru Endo gets bonus points for this goal considering it came in the 87th minute to bring Liverpool level, when aesthetically it looks like a strike which usually arrives with the Reds around 14-0 up at home to journeymen and part-timers in the Europa League or FA Cup.

It’s struck with finesse rather than force, and if you stare at it long enough you begin to question if Leno should have thrown his arm up quicker. Still a great goal, but the standard here is stupidly high.

Alright, maybe some serious questions need to be asked of Fulham about their defending here. Why was Alexander-Arnold afforded the time and space to take a touch off his thigh and let the ball bounce before hitting it with no one even close to closing him down?

But the Liverpool vice-captain still had a lot of work to do. You can hear the rising Anfield tension, the nerves and the angst, the fastened heartbeat of 50,000 people in unison. To control your adrenaline as well as the actual football itself is a task incomprehensible to you or I. It’s why professional sport is so magical.

Right, there was only ever going to be one winner, wasn’t there?

The audacity. The curve. The loop. The aesthetic. The audacity again. The goal. The goal.

What a shame Alejandro Garnacho has already sewn up the goal of the season award.

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