Liverpool are on the verge of qualifying directly to the round of 16 of the Champions League, after beating host Girona 1-0 on Tuesday evening, in the sixth round of the first round.
With this victory, Liverpool's tally rises to 18 points from 6 consecutive victories, while Girona's tally remains 3 points in 30th place out of 36 teams.
Liverpool threatened their host's goal early in the fifth minute, when defender Joe Gomez headed a corner kick, only for goalkeeper Gazzaniga to clear the ball with his fingertips.
The ball reached Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez inside Girona's penalty area, but the goalkeeper cleared his one-on-one with him in the seventh minute.
The first chance for the home team came in the twelfth minute, when Daley Blind failed to follow up on Gutierrez's cross, and the ball reached Francis, whose ball was saved by goalkeeper Alisson Becker, who returned from injury.
The pace of the match slowed down a bit in the second quarter of an hour, before Girona striker Danjuma woke up the crowd with a shot that rebounded off Gomez and went out for a corner kick that did not bear fruit in the 31st minute.
Goalkeeper Alisson intervened again to protect his goal in the 38th minute, when he acrobatically blocked a shot from the edge of the penalty area by Espria.
Danguma returned to his mischief in the 41st minute, when he directed a shot that went wide of Liverpool's goal, to end the first half in a goalless draw.
The second half started quickly, as Alisson blocked another attempt by Danjuma, and Gazzaniga denied Liverpool an opening goal in the 59th minute, when he brilliantly blocked a close attempt by left-back Andy Robertson.
With the help of video technology, the referee awarded a penalty kick to the visiting team, after Colombian winger Luis Diaz was obstructed by Donny van de Beek, and Salah successfully executed the kick in the 61st minute.
Cody Gakpo entered the Liverpool lineup instead of Nunez, and Girona made a number of substitutions, most notably the entry of Uruguayan striker Cristhian Stuani.
The performance tended to calm down in the last quarter of an hour of the match, and the referee awarded a free kick in favor of Liverpool, which was executed by right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold over the human wall, but the goalkeeper cleared the danger in the 83rd minute, and the minutes passed without anything new.
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