Brighton’s Leandro Trossard hits hat-trick to rescue point at Liverpool

01-Oct-2022 16:20:33 | The Guardian

Leandro Trossard launched the Roberto De Zerbi era in style with a clinical hat-trick that earned Brighton a merited point at Liverpool. The Brighton forward scored the first treble by a visiting player at Anfield since Andrey Arshavin’s four goals for Arsenal in 2009 as Jürgen Klopp’s inconsistent team dropped valuable Premier League points for the fifth time this season.

Liverpool appeared to have salvaged victory from the ashes when, having trailed to two early Trossard strikes, Roberto Firmino scored twice and Adam Webster put through his own goal after a mistake by the Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sánchez. Errors were not confined to the visiting defence, however, and the Belgian forward levelled late on after Virgil van Dijk had failed to deal with a ball across the Liverpool six-yard box.