Nottm Forest vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League result and reaction after Taiwo Awoniyi winner

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp speaking to BT Sport after the match: “The performance I can kind of explain, the result not to be honest. I never saw a game where one team has four or five no-brainers from a set piece where we have to finish it off. The way they defend we were perfectly prepared for that. We had to put the game to bed to be perfectly honest.

“The goal we conceded was a big mistake from us. We lose the ball and give them the free-kick and this can happen around set pieces. Apart from that, all the chances they had we gave them. We had to make really late changes and in general a lot of changes and it’s a game you have to win doing the right stuff again and again and again and we didn’t. That’s why we stand here and have lost the game.

“We arrived with consistency but we had six games with a limited squad playing three high intense games. That’s how it is, we cannot change that and we have to fight through. Result-wise we should have showed consistency today. We could have had it by finishing situations off.

“Giving a team six clear chances after a set piece I’m not sure where I should put the praise to be honest. They are a great team and Steve is a great manager but for us today we have to win here and we didn’t, so credit to Nottingham.”

Nottingham Forest ended their 10-game winless streak in style as Taiwo Awoniyi returned to haunt former club Liverpool and stop their Premier League revival.

Awoniyi was on the books at Anfield for six years without ever playing for them, but showed Jurgen Klopp what he was all about, securing a famous 1-0 win that lifts Forest off the bottom of the table after his second-half goal.

Forest beat Liverpool at the City Ground in their first ever Premier League match 30 years ago and this victory will be just as memorable as it is their first three points since August and will provide hope that they can make a fist of their return to the big time after picking up just three points from their last 27 available.

This was a thoroughly deserved success born out of aggression, energy and desire that at times Klopp’s men could not handle.

Liverpool’s James Milner spoke to BT Sport after the match and said: “Obviously we didn’t perform how we wanted to. We had a lot of chances to score goals and didn’t take them. We weren’t alive enough for the second balls and we didn’t create enough chances.

“Ali [Alisson Becker] has made a lot of good saves and we could have defender better. We did everything we wanted to do other than put the ball in the back of the net.

“That’s where are. Games come thick and fast. You’ve got tonight to be disappointed but we have to shake it off and go again.”

Liverpool have lost three of their 11 Premier League games in 2022/23, one more than they’d lost in the whole of the 2021/22 campaign (two from 38).

Taiwo Awoniyi’s third goal of the season gives Nottingham Forest a huge win against Liverpool at the City Ground. Will this result kick start Forest’s season?

90+5 mins: There it is! The full-time whistle goes and Nottingham Forest take a vital three points away from Liverpool. That’s a huge win for the team at the bottom of the Premier League table.

Forest jump ahead of Leicester and are now level on points with Aston Villa, Wolves and Leeds. Great result for Steve Cooper’s men.

Liverpool had a terrible day today. They looked like a shadow of the side that took Man City all the way to end of the season last year.

90+3 mins: Save! Dean Henderson take a bow.

Liverpool win yet another corner that gets whipped quickly into the box. Virgil van Dijk is wide open in the middle of the penalty area and meets the cross with a powerful header that he fires low.

Henderson drops to his left and his strong hand keeps the ball from crossing the line! Huge save from the Nottingham Forest goalkeeper.

90 mins: Renan Lodi fouls Harvey Elliott on the right side of the final third gifting Liverpool a free kick in a dangerous area. Alexander-Arnold and Elliott himself stand over the set piece.

Alexander-Arnold swings one in and finds Virgil van Dijk. He meets the ball with a volley back across goal but Mo Salah can’t reach it for a tap in.

Five minutes of added time to play.

87 mins: Save! Morgan Gibbs-White comes down the left side and flicks a pass into the box for Ryan Yates who gets in behind the lines.

He turns the ball towards goal but Alisson is off his line and gets an arm to the ball which manages to deflect it wide of the back post!