7 Reds Goals To Crystal Palace And Takumi Minamino's 'Egg-Cracked' Goal

Takumi Minamino (Foto via Instagram @ takumi18minamino_official)

JAKARTA - December 19, 2019, Takumi Minamino officially moved from Salzburg to Liverpool. A year passed. Tonight Takumi Minamino broke an egg. He opened his first goal for Liverpool in the continued Premier League match when he came to Crystal Palace headquarters.

The happiness of the Japanese national team striker is not only that. Because of Takumi Minamino's goal in the second minute, the next 88 minutes Liverpool managed to add a lot of goals against Crystal Palace on Saturday, 19 December 2020. A total of seven goals landed against Crystal Palace in the Week 14 Premier League match at Selhurst Park Stadium. , London, England.

Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah both bagged braces in the win. Apart from Takumi Minamino, there are Sadio Mane and Jordan Henderson.

Liverpool appeared so grim from the start to the end of the match.

Not even three minutes into the game, Minamino opened the scoring after receiving a ball from Sadio Mane, avoiding Nathaniel Clyne's tackle and thrashing it into the host's goal.

Stung by that goal, Palace continued to press and several times created threatening situations in the Liverpool defense.

Liverpool, which seemed to let Palace take control of the game, instead succeeded in adding to their advantage using a counter-attack which was ended by Mane's careful shot from the edge of the penalty box in the 35th minute, as reported by Antara.

Mane ended the goal drought he has experienced in his last 10 league games with Liverpool, and is the player who has scored the most goals against Palace in Premier League history with 10 goals.

Liverpool's deadly counter-attack was again shown by the Liverpool players when Firmino widened the lead to 3-0 a minute before halftime using Andy Robertson's measured cross to force goalkeeper Vicente Guaita to pick up the ball again from inside the net.

Entering the second half, Liverpool, which have three goals, seemed calmly in control of the game and seven minutes after football, they widened their lead to 4-0.

Captain Jordan Henderson got the turn to score with his first touch shot from outside the penalty area, following a simple tug from Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Liverpool were able to increase their lead to 5-0 through another counter attack, which was ended by Firmino's second goal in the 68th minute.

Liverpool's calm was accompanied by their sharpness up front and Salah scored two goals in four minutes in the 81st minute with a header and 84 with curling shots that did not give Guaita a chance to save.