RB Leipzig 0-2 Liverpool, UCL 2020-21: Mo Salah, Sadio Mane Score As Reds Get Back to Winning Ways

Budapest, February 17: Targets from Mohammed Salah and Sadio Mane gave Liverpool a medical 2-0 win over an errant RB Leipzig within the first leg of their Champions League spherical of 16 fixture. Liverpool left behind a string of unfavourable leads to the Premier League and have been medical in protecting out Leipzig whose errors ended up costing them the match. Barcelona 1-4 PSG, UCL 2020-21: Kylian Mbappe’s Hat-Trick Gives French Giants Huge First-Leg Lead.

The match, which was Liverpool’s away leg, was performed at Puskas Enviornment in Budapest, Hungary because of Covid-19 restrictions in Germany.

Liverpool got here into the match on the again of three successive defeats. Nonetheless, it was Leipzig who slipped up with their defensive errors permitting the English champions to pounce on them.

Leipzig took the primary likelihood of going forward as early because the fourth minute with a close-range header from Dani Olmo hitting the submit.

Liverpool began imposing themselves because the match progressed. Within the 53rd minute, Salah took full benefit of a poor backpass from Leipzig midfielder Marcel Sabitzer to attain the opener.

After which 5 minutes later, Mane scored in a similar way as Liverpool doubled their lead.

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