A Taiwo Awoniyi goal was enough to see off Liverpool this past weekend.
The 25-year-old came back to haunt Jurgen Klopp who sold him to Union Berlin for only £6.5 million in 2021 [Goal].
A year later, Awoniyi, who never made a competitive debut for Liverpool due to work permit problems, came back to England to join Nottingham Forest.
And on Saturday, he scored the only goal of the game as Forest edged out the Anfield outift, with Klopp praising his former player afterwards.
Garth Crooks told BBC Sport: “Being employed by a top professional club without ever making the grade can take some getting over.
“Taiwo Awoniyi must have dreamt about scoring for Liverpool as a youngster but left without playing a single game. He could never have imagined that one day he would inflict one of the club’s most embarrassing defeats. Only football can throw up these strange events.”
Crooks is wrong in labelling this one of Liverpool’s ‘most embarrassing defeats’.
It does a disservice to a decent Nottingham Forest side who signed about 20 players during the summer transfer window.
It was, however, a pretty poor performance by a Reds outfit that cannot move forward this season.
Liverpool went into the game on the back of successive victories over Manchester City and West Ham United.
Even without this Taiwo Awoniyi goal, the Merseysiders still might’ve wound up losing because, honestly, that’s just how things have been going for them.
One step forward, two back.
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