{"id":60487,"date":"2025-04-29T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60487\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:59:10","slug":"13-key-moments-on-liverpools-journey-to-premier-league-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60487\/","title":{"rendered":"13 key moments on Liverpool’s journey to Premier League glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sending a statement inside the Etihad<\/strong><\/p>\n

The weekend of February 22\/23, 2025 was perhaps the turning point of the race for the championship.<\/p>\n

Liverpool were in the midst of a gruelling top-flight run of five matches in 15 days that included away fixtures at Everton, Villa and here, reigning champions Manchester City.<\/p>\n

If the magnitude of the trip to City were not already big enough, the Reds\u2019 closest pursuers in the table, Arsenal, suffered a 1-0 home defeat by West Ham United on the Saturday.<\/p>\n

An 11-point advantage at the top would be the Reds\u2019 reward for winning at Etihad Stadium on the Sunday.<\/p>\n

An inventive corner-kick routine led to Salah sweeping Slot\u2019s men into the lead during the first half in Manchester, and the Egyptian then set up Dominik Szoboszlai to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

Cushion secured, the visitors were consummately organised and defensively diligent to see out that scoreline with little jeopardy and open up the double-figures gap to the Gunners.<\/p>\n

A statement win, as they say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s special,\u201d Salah stated post-match. \u201cWe need another title for sure, me and the big guys here in the team. We need another title. We\u2019ll give it our best, we\u2019ll give it a good shot and we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diogo wins the Merseyside derby<\/strong><\/p>\n

March, though, had not been Liverpool\u2019s month.<\/p>\n

Elimination from the Champions League last 16 on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain was followed by defeat in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, which was followed by a 17-day spell without a fixture.<\/p>\n

So, when the campaign resumed with a Merseyside derby against Everton at Anfield on April 2 \u2013 and with Arsenal having already won the night before \u2013 for many it felt like the Reds needed something of a kickstart.<\/p>\n

The Blues, of course, had no intention to bow to that desire and with almost an hour elapsed the game was in stalemate and the visitors had gone closest to breaking it, Beto striking the post during the first half.<\/p>\n

But a moment of outstanding quality from Jota settled the contest \u2013 the forward deftly weaving through several challenges and sliding a finish home \u2013 and added three important points to Liverpool\u2019s total at what could otherwise have been a little crossroads in the title race.<\/p>\n

The huge reaction inside the ground reflected the significance. \u201cI think that was one of the loudest I\u2019ve heard Anfield since I\u2019m here at Liverpool,\u201d said the goalscorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sending a statement inside the Etihad The weekend of February 22\/23, 2025 was perhaps the turning point of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60488,"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-60487","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\/114421849375714652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60487","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=60487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}