Liverpool star rubs salt into Southampton wounds with comments after comeback win

Liverpool bushed Southampton 3-2 successful melodramatic manner acknowledgment to a brace from Mohamed Salah and a onslaught from Dominik Szoboszlai, with the Reds producing a comeback win

Dominik Szoboszlai has revealed Liverpool targeted Southampton with their precocious property knowing they "make mistakes" erstwhile playing retired from the back.

Liverpool bushed Southampton 3-2 successful a melodramatic crippled astatine St Mary's, which saw Szoboszlai springiness his broadside the pb aft capitalising connected a mistake. Southampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy, who was deputising for the injured Aaron Ramsdale, needlessly rolled the shot retired to Mateus Fernandes successful their ain punishment area.

Liverpool instantly pressed and enactment them nether pressure, prompting Flynn Downes to effort a panicked clearance that went consecutive to Szoboszlai connected the borderline of the box. He past promptly curled the shot past McCarthy to marque it 1-0.

Reflecting connected the triumph aft the game, Szoboszlai said: "We had a mates of meetings earlier the crippled and we cognize they build-up from the back. Sometimes they bash well, sometimes they marque mistakes and that was the lawsuit here. We pressed truly good and got the goal.

"That was our plan, we knew it – they privation to effort to physique from down and we knew they are truly good. So we had to marque the property truly well. Everybody did well, the full team; if 1 starts, the different 1 follows. That's wherefore they were nether pressure, they couldn't footwear the shot long, they played it to maine and I could score."

Southampton skipper Jack Stephens, meanwhile, admitted that each 3 goals his broadside conceded were "poor" and that they request to find a "better" equilibrium successful their approach. "We're truly disappointed with the result," helium told Sky Sports.

"They're truly mediocre goals to springiness away. We've travel up abbreviated again and it's hard to take. It's frustrating to concede goals but a batch of our bully play came from the situations arsenic well. We'll person to look astatine it backmost and measure everything.

"It's astir getting the equilibrium a spot better. We get bully moments from however we play. We've ever got content successful this group. It's been a pugnacious commencement for us, we cognize that arsenic a group. We've stuck unneurotic and that's recognition to the lads and the fans.

"We privation to get the points to commencement coming and I judge they will. It's lone going to travel from america believing. Credit to the radical due to the fact that it's big. It's truly refreshing erstwhile idiosyncratic other comes successful and it doesn't look immoderate different.

"Everyone trains hard. I judge the results volition turn. We've played against the champion squad successful the league up to this constituent contiguous and we caused them a batch of problems. We request to instrumentality the content into Friday against Brighton."

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