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The match between Ipswich Town and Liverpool, won 2-0 by the Reds, thanks to goals from Zhota in the 60th minute and Salah 5 minutes later, will remain forever in the history of the Premier League. This is because, in addition to the return of the "Tractor Boys" to the elite of English national football, the game started at 13:30 at "Portman Road" was also the first of the "Reds" without coach Jurgen Klop on the bench, since 2015.
Two certainly important statistics, which further increased the "stakes" in the price of this match between the teams led by McKenna and Slot, two debuting coaches in the Premier League. A match that has seen the locals hold on in the first 45 minutes, with the enthusiasm of the debutants in the Premier League, but then, in the second fraction, they highlighted the big differences.
Liverpool has changed "gear" and it was not too difficult to unlock the figures, even to "armour" the first victory in the new championship with the second goal. An expected result on paper too, as Ipswich Town have to look for survival points with other rivals, not the title favourites.
Curiosities about this match:
- Ipswich Town's last match in the Premier League, before today, was in May 2002 against Liverpool at "Anfield", a 5-0 defeat after relegation. Since then, the two sides have met just once, drawing 1-1 in the League Cup in December 2002, before the Tractor Boys lost 5-4 on penalties.
- Liverpool have never lost a Premier League game at Portman Road against Ipswich Town (3D, 2D in previous 5 games), including the last 6-0 win in February 2002. This is the Premier League's stadium , where the "Reds" have played many games without losing.
– For the fifth time in the last six seasons, Liverpool have started the Premier League with a game against a newly promoted team (3, draws previously). The Reds were unbeaten in the first leg in the last 11 seasons (8 wins, 3 draws). The "Reds" last defeat at the start was 3-0 against VBA in the 2012-2013 season, in Brendan Rogers' first match as coach.
- Kieran McKenna becomes the 16th manager to face Liverpool in his first game in the Premier League. Only 4 of the previous 15 had won: Brian Clough (1992), John Gregory (1998), Paul Sturrock (2004) and Craig Shakespeare (2017).
- This was Arne Slot's first game in charge of Liverpool. Only one of the 8 Reds managers in the Premier League had won on his debut in this championship, Gerard Houllier, who beat Southampton in August 1998.
- This was the first time two debutant Premier League managers (Kieran McKenna and Arne Slott) faced each other this season since David Wagner's Huddersfield beat Frank De Beers' Crystal Palace 3-0 in August 2017.
- No player in Premier League history has scored more goals in a first game than Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (9 goals, overtaking Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney).
The next match for Liverpool will be on August 25 against Brentford at 'Anfield Road'.
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