{"id":842365,"date":"2026-09-10T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842365\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:10:14","slug":"liverpool-2-1-atletico-madrid-alexis-mac-allister-does-talking-on-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842365\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool 2-1 Atletico Madrid: Alexis Mac Allister does talking on pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sheer ferocity of the strike to beat Jan Oblak was one thing, but the raw emotion shown by Alexis Mac Allister as he grabbed the Liverpool<\/a> badge on his shirt and celebrated in front of the Kop told you all that you needed to know.<\/p>\n

Just a day earlier, Mac Allister had spoken with a different kind of emotion inside the press room at Anfield as he expressed his sadness at Liverpool not offering him a new contract during the summer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Argentine, who is currently contracted until 2028, spoke passionately about his love for the club and the city and how he didn’t feel like he had anything to prove – but there was an admittance that he needed to show the level he knew he could perform at. <\/p>\n

Thankfully for Andoni Iraola and Liverpool<\/a>, Mac Allister did just that by letting his football do the talking in their 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

From the outset against Diego Simeone’s side, the midfielder seemed like a man on a mission. He blazed over early on from outside the box then picked up a booking just before the half-hour mark. Seeing Simeone wave an imaginary yellow card when he wanted a second booking for his compatriot just before half-time told a story in itself.<\/p>\n

Simeone could only watch on when Mac Allister’s left foot connected with the ball from outside the box and leave a diving Oblak with no chance – turning the game on its head after Marcos Llorente’s opening goal and Dominik Szoboszlai’s equaliser.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t quite like the strike that produced an actual seismic event – reaching a peak magnitude of 1.74 on the Richter scale – when Mac Allister found the top corner against Tottenham<\/a> in 2025 on the day Liverpool<\/a> won the Premier League, but it was more than good enough to beat one of the best goalkeepers in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sheer ferocity of the strike to beat Jan Oblak was one thing, but the raw emotion shown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-842365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}