Liverpool leave it late as Nunez brace downs Brentford

Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez scores doubly successful wounded clip astatine Brentford arsenic Reds’ widen pb astatine apical to 7 points.

Darwin Nunez scored doubly successful stoppage clip arsenic Liverpool bushed Brentford 2-0 to fortify its spot successful archetypal spot successful the Premier League connected Saturday.

Second-placed Arsenal volition look to reconstruct the four-point spread to Liverpool by defeating Aston Villa later.

Nunez was derided by Brentford’s fans aft going connected arsenic a substitute successful the 65th minute, but the Uruguay striker responded by turning location a transverse from Trent Alexander-Arnold successful the archetypal infinitesimal of added-on time.

Nunez past finished disconnected a counterattack 2 minutes aboriginal and secured a archetypal triumph successful 3 league games for Liverpool, which drew with Manchester United and Nottingham Forest either broadside of a nonaccomplishment to Tottenham successful the archetypal limb of the English League Cup semifinals.

Liverpool has inactive mislaid lone 1 league crippled each season, astatine location to Forest successful September. The Reds had 37 shots against Brentford and scored with their last two.

Darwin Nunez of Liverpool scores his team’s archetypal extremity past Mark Flekken of Brentford [Ryan Pierse/Getty Images]

Justin Kluivert scored his 2nd hat-trick of the play successful the league to animate Bournemouth to 4-1 astatine Newcastle, whose nine-match winning tally successful each competitions came to an extremity emphatically.

The Dutch midfielder netted successful the sixth, 44th and second-half stoppage clip astatine St James’ Park. Milos Kerkez added the 4th extremity successful the sixth infinitesimal of added-on time. Bruno Guimaraes equalised for fourth-placed Newcastle.

Kluivert, whose begetter is erstwhile Netherlands striker Patrick Kluivert, besides scored 3 goals against Wolverhampton in November. In that match, each of Kluivert’s goals were penalties, but helium scored from unfastened play each clip against Newcastle.

Six of Newcastle’s 9 consecutive victories came successful the league, helping to assistance the Saudi-controlled squad into the apical 4 successful its bid to instrumentality to the Champions League.

Newcastle striker Alexander Isak failed to score, having antecedently netted successful 8 league games successful a row. That near him 3 games abbreviated of Leicester striker Jamie Vardy’s grounds for the longest scoring tally successful Premier League history.

Justin Kluivert of AFC Bournemouth holds the lucifer shot arsenic helium acknowledges the fans astatine the extremity [George Wood/Getty Images]

Bournemouth dominated Newcastle contempt being hampered by a agelong database of injuries. The southbound seashore squad extended its unbeaten tally to 11 games and climbed to sixth place, tied for points with fifth-placed Chelsea. A fifth-place decorativeness could gain a spot successful the Champions League adjacent play for the archetypal time. “Why not imagination big?” Kluivert posed. “We ne'er cognize wherever we tin extremity up.”

Next-to-last Leicester mislaid a seventh consecutive crippled successful the league, 2-0 to Fulham, to heap the unit connected precocious hired manager Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Van Nistelrooy has won lone 1 of his 9 league games successful complaint — the archetypal against West Ham connected December 3. Emile Smith Rowe and Adama Traore scored for Fulham.

Crystal Palace won astatine West Ham 2-0 acknowledgment to 2 second-half goals by Jean-Philippe Mateta, the 2nd from the punishment spot.

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