Was this the day
Liverpool seized control of the title race? No, that was when
Manchester City were comfortably beaten here last time out. All that could be said for sure after Brighton were defeated at a surprisingly fraught Anfield is that this was the day the reigning
Premier League champions disappeared from Jürgen Klopp’s rear-view mirror.
Liverpool went from comfortable to tense against Graham Potter’s committed visitors after Alisson was sent off for handling outside his area and Lewis Dunk converted the resulting free-kick. The 10 men held on to a lead given by Virgil van Dijk’s two headers, however, to finish with a remarkable 11-point lead at the Premier League summit before the end of November.