STATISTICS FULL MATCH
With just two recreations left to play in the Premier League, the safety buffers are starting to vanish for Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool. Without Sadio Mane to breath life into their once free-scoring assault down the right-hand side, the Reds have thought that it was difficult to hurt groups and separate hardheaded protections.
Come the mid year, they may glance back at their goalless attract at home to Southampton as the diversion that saw their crusade to secure a spot in the main four, and Champions League football for next season, turn basic. Notwithstanding the feedback he has confronted for his not as much as broad strategies generally, Claude Puel got his course of action comfortable.
The Saints smothered their hosts, stuffed the midfield and constrained Liverpool to attempt and step up, just for Klopp's side to battle to make much progress. It wasn't pretty yet it was successful for the guests. Surprisingly since their arrival to the Premier League in 2012, Southampton neglected to take a solitary shot in the main half on their visit to Anfield.
At the point when Jack Stephens gave away a punishment for a hand ball in the second half, it gave the idea that Liverpool had been talented a match-winning minute just for Fraser Forster to spare the spot kick taken by the normally dependable James Milner. There would be no Emre Can ponder objective all of a sudden this time.
The following are the victors and washouts from Anfield as Liverpool drew 0-0 with Southampton.
Champs
Oriol Romeu
Southampton's recently delegated Player of the Season put promote substance to his charging against Liverpool as the Spaniard snuffed out moves for the sake of entertainment through the center.
The previous Chelsea destroyer was in top frame for ruining the house group's day, putting handles over the recreation center and venturing forward to grab away ownership with five capture attempts as Southampton declined to let their rivals through.
On the event where the hosts managed to sprint into the last third, a greater amount of than not Romeu was there, sprinting back, helping his group to recuperate the ball and their shape.
James Ward-Prowse
Celebrated internationally for his capacity to make chances from arrangement ball circumstances and convey in an underhanded cross from out wide, the 22-year-old midfielder played a much more cagey part at Anfield nearby Romeu, shutting off Liverpool's way, blunting the Reds or compelling them to give the ball away with a wayward pass.
He put in five handles before his own container and put in two clearances to embody Puel's way to deal with halting Klopp and his players as Ward-Prowse the playmaker turned into a wellspring of disappointment.
Joel Matip
The best player on the pitch for the home side. His made and gathered nearness before Simon Mignolet slice an unmistakable difference to the frenzy appeared by his accomplice at focus back, all through ownership.
Some powerful difficulties by Southampton's players prompted protestations from Klopp all through the diversion, which made for an ungainly minute as the Cameroonian pessimistically close off Oriol Romeu yet with Liverpool neglecting to discover a route through in advance, Matip may contend he needed to do whatever it took to keep any breaks in resistance.
By the last 15 minutes, even the 25-year-old was beginning to look temperamental. Be that as it may, he can't be relied upon to do it all himself.
Dejan Lovren
Matip's life ought to have been simple against a Southampton side that had left Manolo Gabbiadini detached in advance with Dusan Tadic and Sofiane Boufal sent wide to make sense of how to form assaults their supervisor hadn't sufficiently left players allowed to bolster.
However the Cameroonian needed to endure playing beside Lovren who transformed straightforward assignments into unnecessary wellsprings of threat. He booted balls away to blessing the Saints corners without being under weight and sent a few meandering goes crosswise over to his kindred focus back, driving Matip to take an additional touch and make tension among Liverpool's back line.
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