Leandro Trossard accomplished his hat trick with an 83rd-minute equalizer to earn Brighton a 3-3 draw at Liverpool within the Premier League on Saturday, marking an entertaining begin to Roberto De Zerbi’s time in control of the workforce from England’s south coast.
De Zerbi actually put his stamp on Brighton after his arrival as Graham Potter’s substitute, setting the workforce up in a daring 3-2-4-1 formation at occasions at Anfield and taking dangers in possession towards one of many world’s greatest urgent sides.
It yielded some early advantages — Trossard scored well-worked targets off left-footed pictures within the fourth and seventeenth minutes — earlier than Liverpool bought to grips with Brighton’s enjoying type and mounted a fightback.
Roberto Firmino scored both facet of halftime and Liverpool went forward off a touch of fortune, when Robert Sanchez miscued his punch from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s nook and noticed the ball rebound off his personal defender, Adam Webster, and into the web within the 63rd.
Nevertheless, Brighton claimed some extent — maybe the least the workforce deserved from its adventurous play — when substitute Kaoru Mitoma crossed from the left, Virgil van Dijk missed a clearance and Trossard steered dwelling a end that goalkeeper Alisson Becker might solely palm onto the crossbar and into the web.
Liverpool has received simply two of its first seven matches within the league.
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