{"id":623001,"date":"2025-12-09T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623001\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:10:27","slug":"liverpool-snatch-win-at-inter-milan-with-late-penalty-from-szoboszlai-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/623001\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool snatch win at Inter Milan with late penalty from Szoboszlai | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool bounced back from a damaging row with Mohamed Salah by beating Inter Milan 1-0<\/a> and kicking their Champions League campaign back into gear.<\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai\u2019s late penalty gave the Reds a huge win on Tuesday at the San Siro, in the absence of Egypt star Salah, who was left in England after publicly criticising<\/a> manager Arne Slot at the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Liverpool fans loudly chanted Slot\u2019s name at the end of a largely drab match, which was decided by Felix Zwayer\u2019s decision to give the English champions a perfect chance to snatch the points.<\/p>\n

Inter\u2019s players were enraged at the awarding of the spot kick for a light shirt tug by Alessandro Bastoni on Florian Wirtz, but it gave Slot a happy end to a troubled few days.<\/p>\n

The closest either team came to scoring before then was when Ibrahima Konate had his close-range header ruled out, after a lengthy VAR check, for a Hugo Ekitike handball in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s win puts Liverpool on 12 points from six games and inside the top eight positions, which offers direct qualification for the last 16, ahead of Wednesday\u2019s fixtures.<\/p>\n

Inter, meanwhile, are fifth on the same tally, but have lost their last two European fixtures and created nearly nothing against an injury-hit Liverpool, who were missing not just rebel star Salah but also unfit Cody Gakpo, Federico Chiesa and Wataru Endo.<\/p>\n

Last season, 16 points was enough to skip the playoffs, and Cristian Chivu\u2019s team are by no means guaranteed that as they host Arsenal before travelling to Borussia Dortmund in their final two league phase fixtures.<\/p>\n

And another defeat in a big game means dropping out of the top eight is a real prospect.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s trip to Milan has been dominated by Salah\u2019s extraordinary criticism of Slot, who on Monday admitted that he had \u201cno clue\u201d as to whether the rebel attacker had played his last game for the Reds.<\/p>\n

Salah sparked a firestorm when he said he felt like he had been \u201cthrown under the bus\u201d by the club and no longer had a relationship with Slot after being left on the bench for Saturday\u2019s 3-3 draw at Leeds, the third match in a row for which he has been relegated to the role of substitute.<\/p>\n

His outburst led to Saudi Arabia<\/a> saying on Tuesday that it will do \u201cwhatever it can\u201d to recruit the 33-year-old in January, even though he signed a new contract in April.<\/p>\n

Liverpool had won just four times in 15 matches in all competitions coming into Tuesday\u2019s match, but Inter failed to pile any early pressure on their opponents.<\/p>\n

Inter did not have their first shot of any description until the 37th minute, while Liverpool, who were nowhere near their best, had good attempts from Curtis Jones and Ryan Gravenberch, before Konate\u2019s header was eventually ruled out.<\/p>\n

That woke up both Inter and a strangely flat home crowd of nearly 74,000, and Lautaro Martinez ended up wasting the best chance of the first half when he headed Alessandro Bastoni\u2019s cross straight at Alisson Becker.<\/p>\n

But the second half was a total flop, and as the minutes passed, it became clear that a deadlock was fine for both teams until Szoboszlai rifled home his winning penalty.<\/p>\n

Slot praised his side for the commitment and pressing that helped them come away with the win, before commenting on Salah\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been so influential for the club and his teammates, and it is sad for the club and his teammates,\u201d the Liverpool manager told Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus should be on this result. I know that all the questions will still be about Mo on Friday, ahead of the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool skipper van Dijk said it was an important victory for the players amid intense scrutiny and criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning is a good feeling, especially in the period we are in \u2013 trying to find consistency, something to build in,\u201d the Liverpool defender told Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always going to be tough here. It nearly ended 0-0, but it ended positively for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the Champions League on Tuesday, Bayern Munich\u2019s 17-year-old midfielder Lennart Karl produced an audacious bit of skill to continue his high-scoring start to life in the Champions League in a 3-1 win over Sporting Lisbon.<\/p>\n

Chelsea were beaten in the Champions League for the first time in nearly three months as Belgium forward Charles De Ketelaere set up the equaliser and scored an 83rd-minute winner as Atalanta came from behind to win 2-1 in Bergamo.<\/p>\n

Atletico Madrid came from behind to beat PSV Eindhoven 3-2 away on Tuesday and move up to seventh spot in the Champions League standings, all but ensuring their progress to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

Two headers by Jules Kounde three minutes apart gave Barcelona a 2-1 comeback victory over Eintracht Frankfurt at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n

Tottenham Hotspur moved up to ninth after beating Slavia Prague 3-0 on an own goal and two penalties, andMarseille held on for a 3-2 win over Union Saint-Gilloise \u2013 whose players and fans twice celebrated what they thought were goals to level the score late on, only for both to be ruled out for narrow offsides on video review.<\/p>\n

Olympiakos broke through a determined Kairat Almaty defence to take a 1-0 win in Kazakhstan and boost their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool bounced back from a damaging row with Mohamed Salah by beating Inter Milan 1-0 and kicking their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,299,94,4884,2199,179,12,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-623001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115692137634622083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623001","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=623001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}