{"id":489310,"date":"2025-01-14T18:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489310"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:01:54","slug":"jota-comes-off-the-bench-to-save-liverpools-point-against-forest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jota-comes-off-the-bench-to-save-liverpools-point-against-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jota comes off the bench to save Liverpool&#8217;s point against Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool preserved their six-point lead atop the Premier League table with a hard-fought 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest in a gripping match at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Forest, aiming for a historic seventh consecutive league victory\u2014their first since 1922\u2014made a dream start as Chris Wood clinically converted Anthony Elanga&#8217;s precise pass in the eighth minute to put the visitors ahead. Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s men looked well-organized defensively and appeared on course to secure a league double over Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>However, the game shifted dramatically in the 66th minute when Liverpool manager Arne Slot&#8217;s substitutions paid immediate dividends. Diogo Jota, introduced just seconds earlier alongside Kostas Tsimikas, headed home a Tsimikas corner to level the score.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It ends level at the City Ground. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFOLIV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NFOLIV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lE5wNVD4gQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lE5wNVD4gQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1879286115397701952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jota almost completed the comeback, testing Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels twice with powerful efforts, while Mohamed Salah saw a late strike heroically blocked on the line. Despite Liverpool&#8217;s dominance in the second half, Forest&#8217;s defense held firm to secure a valuable point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool preserved their six-point lead atop the Premier League table with a hard-fought 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest in a gripping match at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489311,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16722,17300,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17887,17967,17886],"acf":{"announce":"Nottingham continue to amaze this season and temporary jumps to second in the standings","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489312,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489310\/revisions\/489312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489310"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489310"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}