#2 Simon Mignolet deserves credit
He has got a lot of flak over the last few years, and rightly so, but in recent games, Mignolet has proved why Klopp regards him as Liverpool’s no. 1 goalkeeper. After pulling off a couple of miraculous saves to help Liverpool win against Stoke last weekend, Mignolet came up with another hugely critical save to deny Matt Phillips when he was one-on-one.
Salomon Rondon had played Phillips through and he was one-on-one with the Belgian, but Mignolet spread himself well, and made the obstacle for Phillips as big as he could.
His shot-stopping has always been pretty good, at leasy it has not been questioned too much. The big change recently has been the way he has dealt with crosses into the box. He has shown a lot more conviction, whether he has caught them or punched them away.
That was important for Liverpool against a side like West Brom whose biggest weapon is their ability to put dangerous crosses into the box and get their big men to attack them.
Today, they were not able to get their crosses right too often. In the last few minutes though, they did, and Mignolet was strong as he came out and punched the ball out of danger.
