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Forest opened the scoring by taking advantage of Liverpool’s poor form from set-pieces this season. <\/p>\n
Excluding penalties, Slot’s side have conceded nine league goals from set-pieces this season – as many as they did in the whole of last season.<\/p>\n
For the first goal, Liverpool had six players in the six-yard box including goalkeeper Alisson, while the visitors smartly only placed two in there. <\/p>\n
One of these players applied light pressure on Alisson while their other player duelled with Virgil van Dijk, impairing his movement.<\/p>\n
The real battle happened in the middle of the box where Forest and Liverpool set up in a 4v4 situation with Liverpool’s four consisting of Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n
Early in the routine, Salah gestured to Mac Allister asking the Argentine to pick up one of Forest’s most dangerous players, Murillo.<\/p>\n
Mac Allister was unable to do this as he was preoccupied with the player he was designated to mark. As a result, he stayed attached to his player throughout the corner meaning Murillo was a spare man.<\/p>\n
Szoboszlai was tasked with marking Morgan Gibbs-White, but decided against tracking him to the near post – instead attempting to pick up the free Murillo at the last minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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