Frimpong on Late Liverpool Win: “Sometimes You Score Last Minute”

Liverpool had been the higher facet by some margin on Wednesday night once they took on Atletico Madrid underneath the lights at Anfield within the Champions League.

The Reds had twice as many shot makes an attempt and recorded round three anticipated targets price of probabilities in comparison with Atletico’s half a purpose price. Regardless of that, heading into stoppage time the sport was stage 2-2 and it took a late, late winner from captain Virgil van Dijk to safe the victory.

It could have been a late winner, then, but it surely was a clearly deserved winner. Which is the form of factor new summer season signing Jeremie Frimpong is somewhat bit aware of from his time at Bayer Leverkusen.

“Typically you rating final minute,” Frimpong famous. “I’ve had numerous last-minute targets in my profession to this point, clearly with Leverkusen. However a very powerful factor is that we received and I feel we deserved to win. We had been the higher crew, performed rather well.”

Leverkusen grew to become recognized for late targets throughout their Bundesliga profitable 2023-24 marketing campaign, finally incomes that iteration of the membership the nickname Neverlusen. As a rule, although, these late targets and wins had been a good reflection of the previous match.

Proof that should you’re the higher facet and you retain pushing and enjoying your recreation whereas the opposition tires, good issues do are inclined to occur in the end.

“In a match you by no means know if you’re going to attain,” Frimpong added. “After all you’d like to attain earlier however generally it doesn’t work like that. Like I stated, it’s a part of soccer. Typically you rating late, generally you rating early. It’s identical to that.

“Whenever you’re 2-0 up, in fact we need to hold the lead or rating extra. Nevertheless it’s the Champions League, we’re enjoying Atletico Madrid, in fact we will do higher to cease it but it surely’s soccer.”