Kelleher proved adept at saving penalties during regulation time, too. <\/p>\n
Last year, he became just the second Liverpool goalkeeper in history \u2013 and first since Augustus Beeby in 1909 \u2013 to save spot-kicks in consecutive games.<\/p>\n
First, he stopped Adam Armstrong\u2019s attempt in a 3-2 Premier League win at Southampton and, three days later, he thwarted Kylian Mbappe as Real Madrid were beaten 2-0 at Anfield in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
Incredibly, Kelleher had also saved a penalty for Ireland against Finland during the international break that preceded the Reds\u2019 trip to St Mary\u2019s, meaning he stopped three spot-kicks in just 13 days.<\/p>\n
Vital Villa saves<\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool\u2019s ultimately successful pursuit of the 2024-25 Premier League title was boosted by the events of November 9.<\/p>\n The Reds hosted Aston Villa in a rare nighttime kick-off on a Saturday at Anfield knowing that, with Manchester City having lost earlier in the day, a win would take them five points clear at the top of the table ahead of the international break.<\/p>\n Victory was secured thanks to goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah \u2013 and a fantastic couple of saves from Kelleher, who showcased brilliant reflexes to deny Amadou Onana and then Diego Carlos to make sure his side went into half-time 1-0 up.<\/p>\n Signing off as a champion<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelleher proved adept at saving penalties during regulation time, too. Last year, he became just the second Liverpool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,1051,13,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1042,1047,1043,14,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-155127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-klopp","13":"tag-lfc","14":"tag-lfc-news","15":"tag-lfctv","16":"tag-lfctv-go","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","20":"tag-liverpool-football-club","21":"tag-mane","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-salah","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114620171940519107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}