Semenyo might spark Reds if Salah can’t
Rumours of Liverpool’s recovery have been exaggerated, it seems.
The 2-0 win at an insipid West Ham, mourning the death of club legend, Billy Bonds, does not appear to have been a turning point.
They are not better without Mo Salah; Alexander Isak is still not right, and Florian Wirtz hasn’t yet broken his duck.
And only Federico Chiesa’s goalline clearance saved them from the worst Anfield humiliation yet, and all that that would have entailed.
Even a draw doesn’t spare them an inquest, though.
That it was Sunderland, of all people, who were a whisker away from following Nottingham Forest and PSV Eindhoven in beating the Reds in their erstwhile fortress says it all.
Heavy favourites for the drop after finishing fourth in the Championship last season, the Black Cats are defying the laws of gravity.
They are also challenging the notion that you can’t be successful with too many changes.
Sunderland got rid of 17 of its nobodies who were signed in League 1 for a combined…
