Ajayi and Niang: Can West Brom win Liverpool’s Champions League?

Although West Bromwich Albion was relegated by the Premier League, there were still a few teams who hoped that Sam Aladis would fight for the fight in Liverpool’s Sunday afternoon game in the last few games.

Leicester City’s victory at Manchester United on Tuesday and Chelsea’s unexpected defeat by Arsenal the next day opened up the possibility of Jurgen Klopp’s other team in the Champions League rankings.

On Thursday night, Klopp scored a timely first victory at Old Trafford. This is a post-scheduled game and the toughest performance of the Merseyside club in the game. The lifeline shown by Thomas Tuchel’s team mistakes means that if the retired champion wins the remaining games this season, they will be ranked in the top four.

The first player to win the Premier League last year was West Bromwich Albion. This Liverpool team will not have fond memories of what happened after the countdown and what happened afterwards.

After beating Crystal Palace 7-0 before Christmas, the Anfield Giants are expected to wipe the floor with Sam Allardyce’s troops in Merseyside in the penultimate game of 2020.

However, Semi Ajayi had other ideas that day, and the normal time ended 1-1 to tie the visitors to the eight-minute normal game time. The stalemate started five consecutive PL unwin games for the then defending champion, and weird games were played without a home victory in the past four months.

Although Ajayi’s header gave the best side of the league a huge attraction, it did not fully promote the safety of the West Brom team, but the towering central defender will not forget the great efforts of his remaining professional.

This is the 27-year-old’s first top flight goal, and the time to work hard couldn’t be better. Although he scored 12 times in the last two seasons of the Champions League, so far, West Africa has only scored 2 goals in important moments.

Even so, the importance of winning the Wolverhampton Rangers 3-2 at Anfield in mid-January with his equalizer will not be forgotten in a hurry.

Even if survival was not achieved in the end, the central defender did not feel embarrassed in his first Premier League game. Compared with the previous year, the number of clean sheets this year has dropped significantly (one), compared to a drop of 12 last year, but no other teammate has the right to recover the defender in this semester.

He has always been the third-ranked major player in the aerial brawl, and has scored fewer than four colleagues this season. The latter probably explains the problem with the term Baggies: low quality, leading to a series of goals, and lack of game winners when necessary.

If Mbaye Diagne (Mbaye Diagne) comes earlier than January, the campaign may be different. Since he temporarily switched to English football, the three PL strikes by Galatasaray lenders have not fully offset the impact and threats he has received.

The Senegalese forward, after lacking a natural scorer for most of the season, appears to be in line with the classic Allardyce method. His physical style meant that the opposing central defenders didn’t get enough rest, and his busy personality helped him get motivation from nothing.

Despite Diagne’s relative success, the lack of considerable opportunities caused Albion to pay the price, leaving a stain on the host. Statistics show that the person in charge failed to classify 11 opportunities as “clear opportunities” in this unpopular group.

The fact that the loan forward has reached near the midpoint further aggravates his poor finishing ability, which to some extent contradicts the aforementioned praise. In any case, the arrival of Diagne gave West Bromwich supporters hope that they could defeat the drop in a period of time.

After the West African striker has already faced Manchester United and Chelsea, he will be happy to hit the net to the other top side before leaving English football.

Although Ajayi and Diagne performed well, Grady Diangana returned to top football in a frustrating manner. West Ham United’s supporters became incandescent after selling the talented 23-year-old in the summer, but his performance on the struggling Albion side did not fully convince London to honor their decision last year. Frustrated by the decision.

He is Slaaven Bilic’s favorite and has performed well in 11 of the 13 games ruled by Croatia, but under the leadership of the former England manager, his number of appearances has decreased. Although a thigh muscle strain prevented him from playing for most of January and the following month, Diangana has only played twice since the end of February, and the second time was the last time he was on the bench at Arsenal. on.

This game is not as promising as the young man imagined, but he can still achieve positive results in Albion’s last three games to end a challenging year.

Although they have not yet achieved survival, the three Africans in Baggies can still claim their scalp before they finally leave the league. If they have something to gain from this weekend’s game against Liverpool, please expect the supporters of Leicester and Chelsea to feel great relief from Bucky throwing a wrench in the late Red Army attack.