Salah scores but Liverpool stunned by last-place Wolves 2-1 in Premier League

Last-place Wolverhampton stunned Premier League champion Liverpool with a 2-1 win at Molineux Stadium on Tuesday.

Brazilian midfielder Andre struck a deflected winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time to deliver a blow to Liverpool's hopes of securing Champions League soccer next season.

It sent Wolves fans wild in a thrilling finish to the match.

“It is Liverpool Football Club. It doesn’t matter the position we are in at the moment, whenever you beat them, you have to enjoy them moments," said Wolves manager Rob Edwards, who charged down the touchline in celebration after Andre's strike brought rare joy to a season that looks destined to end in relegation.

A dramatic end to the game saw Mohamed Salah score in the 83rd minute — ending his 10-game league goal drought — to equalize for Liverpool soon after Rodrigo Gomes had put Wolves ahead in the 78th.

As both teams went in search of a winner, Andre's long-range effort deflected off Joe Gomez and left Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson wrong-footed.

“It feels amazing. It was an amazing game and an amazing night," said Rodrigo Gomes.

It was Liverpool's ninth league defeat of the season and could see the defending champion drop to sixth place if Chelsea beats Aston Villa on Wednesday.

The top four are guaranteed to qualify for the Champions League, but the Premier League is likely to earn a fifth bonus place because of English clubs' performances in Europe this season.

After running away with the title last term, Liverpool is 16 points adrift of first-place Arsenal.

“We are losing far too many football games and dropping points," Liverpool manager Arne Slot said. “The three times we have lost in the last 22 games have all been in extra time.”

Victory for Wolves made it back-to-back wins in the league for the first time this season. It beat Aston Villa 2-0 on Friday.

While survival is highly unlikely, given it is 11 points adrift of safety, it is enjoying a late season surge that included a recent 2-2 draw with Arsenal.

"What we are doing at the moment is showing fight and spirit and some quality. We are competing with everyone,” Edwards said.

Everton secured a rare win at its new stadium by beating relegation-fighting Burnley 2-0.

Goals from James Tarkowski and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in each half sealed only a fifth league win at Hill Dickinson Stadium since Everton moved into its new home at the start of the season. Victory also boosted its chances of qualifying for Europe, with David Moyes' team moving to within one point of seventh-place Brentford, which drew 0-0 with Bournemouth.

“Our away form has been incredible but we haven’t got enough points here,” Tarkowski said. "We have let ourselves down in some games here and conceded some rubbish goals and not taken our chances.

"We are in touching distance to the European places. There are nine matches to go so we will stick some wins on the board and see where we end up. We are chasing them rather than looking below.”

Leeds is in danger of being dragged back toward the relegation zone after back-to-back losses.

Habib Diarra's second-half penalty secured a 1-0 win for Sunderland at Elland Road.

Leeds is six points above the drop zone, but that could be reduced if 18th-place West Ham picks up points at Fulham on Wednesday.

Port Vale, which is in last place in England's third division, will play Sunderland in the fifth round of the FA Cup after beating Bristol City 1-0 in extra time.

Ben Waine scored the winning goal in the 112th to beat Bristol, which is 10th in the second-tier Championship.

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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scores his side's opening goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool in Wolverhampton, England, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland)

Everton's Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall celebrates scoring their side's second goal of the game during their English Premier League soccer match against Burnley in Liverpool, England, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Liverpool's manager Arne Slot reacts from the touchline during the English Premier League soccer match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool in Wolverhampton, England, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland)

Wolverhampton Wanderers' Andre, front right, celebrates after scoring their second goal of the game during an English Premier League match against Liverpool, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Wolverhampton, England. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

Liverpool's Alexis Mac Allister reacts after the team conceded a second goal against Wolverhampton Wanderers during an English Premier League match, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Wolverhampton, England. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Wolverhampton Wanderers' Andre (7) celebrates after scoring their second goal of the game during an English Premier League match against Liverpool, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Wolverhampton, England. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel sent troops into southern Lebanon on Tuesday and warned residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate as the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group said it was ready for an “open war” with Israel in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

The development came after Hezbollah fired rockets and launched drones early Monday toward northern Israel. Israel retaliated with a wave of airstrikes that killed 50 people in Lebanon, including seven children as well as a Palestinian militant and a Hezbollah intelligence official in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

That death toll is a revised figure from an earlier one reported by the Health Ministry, which originally said Monday that 52 people died in the strikes. Lebanese Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine then on Tuesday reduced that number to 40, then later raised the toll to 50.

Lebanon also said 335 people were wounded and that tens of thousands were displaced.

The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that 30,000 displaced people were staying in collective shelters in Lebanon, “while many others slept in their cars, on sides of the roads as they could not yet find safe shelter.”

Hezbollah fired two salvos of rockets toward northern Israel, the militant group said while Israeli airstrikes overnight damaged a building housing Hezbollah’s television and radio stations. Beirut’s southern suburbs also saw a series of strikes on Tuesday afternoon that came without warning. The Israeli military later said it targeted Hezbollah officials.

The Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman, Avichay Adraee, warned residents of more than 80 villages and towns in southern Lebanon to leave, adding that people should not return to these areas until further notice.

A senior Hezbollah official said that after more than a year of abiding by a ceasefire as Israel’s strikes continued on Lebanon, the group’s patience has ended, leaving it with no option but to fight Israel. “The Zionist enemy wanted an open war, which it has not stopped since the ceasefire agreement,” Mohamoud Komati said.

“So let it be an open war,” added the Hezbollah official.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United States, France and Egypt on Tuesday that Hezbollah has been firing rockets from areas north of the Litani River. That's outside an area south of the river and along the border with Israel, where Lebanese troops have earlier said they are in full control.

The Israeli military said Tuesday it sent additional troops into southern Lebanon and took new positions on several strategic points close to the border. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the Lebanese army was evacuating some of its positions along the border.

Adraee, the Israeli spokesman, said on X that the troops’ movements inside Lebanon are meant to bolster Israel's forward defense system and create an addition layer of security.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the Lebanese army was evacuating some of its border positions.

A Lebanese military official confirmed to The Associated Press that Israeli troops had moved into several areas in southern Lebanon on Tuesday and that the Lebanese army was “repositioning” in the area. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military movements.

The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, later Tuesday said its peacekeepers saw Israeli troops making forays across the border and then returning to Israel. Israel’s army said its troops are still operating in Lebanon, but it wasn't clear how many soldiers remained inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah began firing into Israel a day after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel triggered the war in Gaza. After months of low-level fighting, a full-scale war erupted in September 2024 and Israel later launched a ground invasion of Lebanon.

Israeli forces withdrew from most of southern Lebanon after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire halted the fighting in November 2024 but continued to occupy five points on the Lebanese side of the border. Israel also continued with near-daily strikes, primarily in southern Lebanon, saying that Hezbollah has been trying to rebuild its positions there.

Lebanon's Health Ministry also said Tuesday that 397 people had been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon after the ceasefire took effect and before Hezbollah launched its latest attacks.

Thousands of Syrians living in Lebanon crossed back into Syria, fleeing Israeli strikes over the past two days.

UNHCR said the number of people crossing from Lebanon into Syria jumped on Monday to 10,629 from typically between 3,900 and 4,400 a day since the holy Islamic month of Ramadan began in February. The vast majority were Syrian, but a small number of Lebanese citizens also crossed.

Azzam Sweiri, a Syrian farm laborer working in southern Lebanon, said he saw streets "packed with cars and people” as he fled the bombardment.

“It took us 10 or 12 hours just to make it 30 or 40 kilometers,” he said after crossing in to Syria Tuesday, adding that after he left, he heard that the house next to the one where he lived was hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Associated Press journalists Ghaith AlSayed and Omar Sanadiki in Jdeidet Yabous, Syria, contributed to this report.

A Syrian man carries a child as they cross the Syrian-Lebanese border into Syria, fleeing Lebanon due to Israeli airstrikes, in Jdeidet Yabous, Syria, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Firefighters inspect the rubble as smoke rises from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

FILE - Employees work in the newsroom of Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A firefighter extinguishes a burned shop at a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)