Liverpool 1 Leeds 2: Summerville bags late winner as Whites rise out of drop zone and Reds’ Prem plight continues

THIS WAS trick or treat night at Anfeld and Crysencio Summerville walked away with all the goodies

And his 90^th minute strike left Jurgen Klopp horror – stricken a couple of days before Hallow’een..

Crysencio Summerville goes wild after his shock clincher for Leeds at Anfield

Liverpool keeper Alisson watches in despair as Crysencio Summerville (not seen) bags a late winner for struggling Leeds

The German’s side gifted a lifeline to opposite number Jesse Marsch and his struggling Leeds United side .

First thanks to a howler from Joe Gomez.

Then with seconds ticking into time added on diminutive Dutchman stole in to plunder victory as Liverpool’s season.

Anfield boss Klopp Was looking FOR a win that would  announce Kop problems were easing, instead they only got worse after the defeat that followed the 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest a week earlier.

Marsch tried to laugh off comparisons between him and the tactically useless American manager Ted Lasso in the build – up to this clash.

Lasso somehow succeeded in the fictional TV show that depicted his success with fictitious Prem side AFC Richmond.

He thinks such jibes are unfair yet the defending of his side just 41 seconds in as a true joke.

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson fired forward a long ball for Mo Salah to chase although he had little hope of catching the ball.

Yet for no reason anyone at Anfield can have imagined Alisson’s opposite number Illan Meslier charged 30 yards from his goal just as Liam Cooper sent back what should have been a simple header to clear the danger.

Meslier was caught in no – man’s land and Salah was able to deliver the shot that a relieved Pascal Struijic just managed to hook off his line.

So, all a bit of a laugh, then.

Except that crazy moment, no doubt based on tension and nerves, had nothing on what happened next with Joe Gomez taking kamikaze defending to a new, surreal level.

Less three minutes after Meslier’s moment of madness the Liverpool centre back neatly robbed midfielder Brendan Aaronson on his side’s right touchline.

Then, without looking, he sent the ball backwards towards Alisson, so stunned by the blunder that he slipped trying to get to the mis – placed pass.

Enter into the pantomime Rodrigo, centre stage, who could have done a lap around the Kop before touching the ball home to put Leeds, after four defeats in a row, the lead.

Hollywood script writers would have been laughed out of the studios had they tried to make up that bizarre start.

Yet the fun had only just begun.

Salah forced a ball right across the Leeds box and Andy Robertson just managed to connect with a running cross.

Marsch’s defenders reacted like stuffed dummies, mere extras in the plot as Salah was allowed to hook a 14^th minute  equaliser home – even he looked surprised that he was able to do so without any challenge.

That should have been the cue for stability within Klopp’s ranks.

Not a bit of it.

A side struggling desperately for some sort of foothold in a season that had seen them winless in eight with Marsch’s position as manager under growing threat simply walked through the Anfield defence.

Klopp’s men got lucky as Aaronson got on the end of a cross from Rasmus Kristensen but volleyed against the bar.

Seconds after that 21^st minute surge through Liverpool’s non –combative midfield Alisson dropped in desperation to touch away a fierce low drive from Jack Harrison.

Liverpool legend and TV pundit called it all a “great advert” for the Premier League.

But in his managerial days including a stint at Anfield,  he would have been spitting blood.

And Kopp, stunned on the touchline as one of his predecessors, looked like he was doing exactly that.

Meslier made up for his earlier nightmare with a series of late saves yet nobody could deny Marsch and his men deserved the points as Summerville celebrated on the even of his 21^st birthday.

It as Leeds’ first win since the start of August – this game might be the first that suggests Klopp now needs to make major changes going forward.

HERE’S HOW THE ACTION WENT