Liverpool needed a hero. Step forward the last player you’d expect to score a goal.
The Reds had to win at already-relegated West Bromwich Albion today in order to realistically keep their top four hopes alive.
Drawing 1-1 with mere seconds to go, Liverpool had squandered chance after chance; it looked like it just wasn’t going to be there day.
Trent Alexander-Arnold had one last chance to get in a good delivery. Up went goalkeeper Alisson, it was now or never.
The Brazilian shot-stopper ghosted into the box and planted a superb header into the net, one that Alan Shearer would have been proud of had he scored it.
Liverpool players, staff and fans around the world went absolutely bonkers, and Jamie Carragher was clearly loving it.
Carragher took to Twitter to post a meme of Alisson as the Christ the Redeemer statue back in Alisson’s native Brazil, before laughing at a stat pointing out that the goalkeeper has a better goalscoring record than Carragher himself.
Gary Neville unsurprisingly wasn’t impressed, and you don’t need me to explain what his tweet meant as he cursed Alisson’s history-making goal – the first header scored by a goalkeeper in Premier League history.
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