ALISSTUNNER!

LIVERPOOL KEEPER SCORES LAST-GASP WINNER AND DEDICATES GOAL TO LATE FATHER

AN EMOTIONAL Alisson fought back tears after the goalkeeper’s stoppage-time header clinched Liverpool’s dramatic 2-1 win at West Brom yesterday.

The Brazil international powered in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s corner to score a shock goal that moved the Reds to within a point of fourth-placed Chelsea with two Premier League games left.

Alisson dedicated the goal to his father, Jose Agostinho Becker, who drowned near his home in Brazil in February. ‘I’m too emotional,’ Alisson said. ‘This last month for everything that happened with me, with my family, but football is my life, the places, everything I remember as a human being.

‘With my father, I hope he was here to see it, but I’m sure he was seeing, with God at his side, celebrating.’ Alisson, unable to return to Brazil following his father’s death due to the coronavirus pandemic, also said his goal was for his family and team-mates.

‘What a fight,’ Alisson said. ‘Sometimes we are fighting and fighting, and things are just not happening like this afternoon here and just scoring this goal, I’m really happy to help them.

‘We have a goal to achieve the Champions League because we won it once and everything started with the qualification, so I can’t be more happy than I am.’

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said he could not believe Alisson’s winner. ‘Unbelievable. Unbelievable header,’ he said. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it. Insane! It was good technique.

‘I couldn’t be sure. I thought, “Is something wrong?” You see it, but think that cannot be actual and you are more in shock for a second.’