Alisson couldn’t hide his emotion after scoring an incredible header to snatch Liverpool a crucial 2-1 victory against West Brom at the death.
In what was one of the most dramatic finishes to a Premier League game in recent history, the Reds goalkeeper incredibly rose highest to glance a header home with seconds remaining to keep his side’s Champions League hopes alive.
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Jurgen Klopp’s men looked to have been heading for a draw at the Hawthorns before Alisson snatched the visitors all three points.
The Reds are battling Leicester and Chelsea for the final Champions League spots and a point would have given their top-four rivals the advantage as the race goes down to the wire.
And after the match, Alisson dedicated his goal to his late father, who tragically drowned in a dam near his holiday home in Lavras do Sul, Brazil.
“I’m too emotional,” Alisson told Sky Sports. “This last month for everything that happened with me, with my family, but football is my life, the places, everything I remember as a human being.
“With my father, I hope he was here to see it, but I’m sure he was seeing, with God at his side, celebrating.”
Alisson, unable to return to Brazil following his father’s death due to the coronavirus pandemic, also said his goal was for his family and teammates.
“What a fight,” Alisson said. “Sometimes we are fighting and fighting and things are just not happening like this afternoon here and just scoring this goal, I’m really happy to help them because we fight a lot together.
“We have a goal to achieve the Champions League because we won it once and everything started with the qualification, so I can’t be more happy than I am now.”
The Brazilian joked it was the best goal he had scored, adding: “It was the perfect time. The cross was brilliant again. I just tried to put my head on the ball and I think it was one of the best goals I’ve scored!
“I’m really happy. I don’t have too many words, I just have to say thank you to the players because they fight a lot. We fight a lot.”
With the goal, Alisson became just the sixth goalkeeper in Premier League history to score a goal, after Peter Schmeichel, Brad Friedel, Paul Robinson, Tim Howard and Asmir Begovic.
Jurgen Klopp was unsurprisingly delighted to see Alisson score a last-gasp winner, describing the moment as ‘touching’.
“We are really close so I know exactly what it means to him and what he thought in that moment,” he said.
“It’s outstanding and it’s touching, it’s only football but it means the world to us.
“Now, let’s keep going – that’s all that we can say. We just have to make sure we’re now ready for Burnley which is another tough place to go.”
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