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Key occasions
71 minutes: No, he was not.
GOAL! Liverpool 5-1 Tottenham (Udogie og, 69 minutes)
Tottenham progress from organising Liverpool’s objectives to scoring them. Jota’s shot deflects to Alexander-Arnold, whose cross would have gone to Salah had Udogie not bought there first. May Salah have been offside when Alexander-Arnold hit the ball, although?
68 minutes: A load of substitutions: Spurs take off Tel and Solanke, and produce on Wilson Odobert and Richarlison, whereas Liverpool take off Szoboszlai and Gakpo and produce on Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota.
66 minutes: Save! From the sting of the realm and bang central Salah passes to his left, and the one query is whether or not Szoboszlai or Luis Diaz will run onto it and have a shot. The latter was in all probability in a greater place, however Szoboszlai will get there first and hits straight at Vicario along with his left foot.
64 minutes: Kulusevski runs into hassle on the sting of Liverpool’s penalty space, and after Liverpool regain possession one cross releases Szoboszlai, who runs 60 yards earlier than transferring the ball on to Salah, who cuts in and wrongfoots Vicario by capturing simply contained in the close to submit!
GOAL! Liverpool 4-1 Tottenham (Salah, 63 minutes)
Salah has his objective! And he celebrates by taking a fan’s cellphone and utilizing it to take a few selfies in entrance of the Kop.
62 minutes: Gravenberch has Liverpool’s eighth shot of the half, low and skiddy and stopped by Vicario. Spurs have had one, and that wasn’t on the right track, and 30% of possession.
59 minutes: Salah goes down after getting a mild nudge from Udogie. He desires a penalty – actually he desires a objective, nevertheless it’s going to come back, and that appears pretty much as good a method as any – however the referee is rightly unconvinced.
57 minutes: Liverpool are working fairly rampant right here, they’re simply overcomplicating or undercomplicating, taking too many passes or not sufficient. Salah right here does the latter, slicing in, refusing to cross, decided to shoot, hitting a defender.
55 minutes: Watching Spurs cross the ball out of defence is as shut as sport will get to pure comedy.
54 minutes: Spurs don’t handle to get so far as the midway line earlier than Szoboszlai wins it again and passes to Mac Allister, who has all types of passing choices however as a substitute has a shot, which deflects broad.
52 minutes: Liverpool win a nook on the left, from which they win a nook on the best, which is cleared.
49 minutes: Liverpool ought to have scored a fourth! Gakpo runs in from the left, passes again to Mac Allister and ghosts into the realm whereas no one’s trying besides the Argentinian, who performs him in, eight yards out. However Gakpo doesn’t go for objective, as a substitute making an attempt to tee up a non-existent teammate for a tap-in.
47 minutes: Brennan Johnson is performed into area down the best, however he solely had that area as a result of he was 5 yards offside.
46 minutes: Peeeeeep! The gamers are again out, apart from James Maddison and Archie Grey. Dejan Kulusevski and Pape Sarr are on.
That is the a hundred and twentieth time that Liverpool have been two or extra objectives to the nice at half-time of a Premier League sport at Anfield. They’ve received 117 of the earlier 119 and drawn the opposite two.
I didn’t report within the moments after Liverpool’s third objective that Gakpo was booked for pulling off his package to disclose a Kaka-style “I belong to Jesus” vest prime.
With reference to that sport, Samuel Dodson emails: “Man Metropolis scoring within the first couple of minutes is the worst factor that might have occurred to that match as a spectacle. Nonetheless, judging by the empty seats within the metropolis half of Wembley, it appears many of the Metropolis supporters have additionally realised that the Liverpool Spurs sport is the place it’s at at this time. 4 objectives already and if it continues like this it might find yourself being 7-2 by the tip of play.” FA Cup semi-finals are essentially the most garbage of all fixtures for followers: tickets are actually costly, and both your group loses and also you’ve had a depressing time, or your group wins and it’s good to shell out for much more for the ultimate. It’s a lose/lose state of affairs.
In different information, Nottingham Forest are shedding 1-0 to Manchester Metropolis within the FA Cup semi-final, and Taha Hashim is watching that one:
Half time: Liverpool 3-1 Tottenham
45+4 minutes: Bergvall dummies a cross zinged into him, cleverly permitting the ball to run straight into contact. And that’s the tip of half one.
45+3 minutes: Spurs win a free-kick, from which Bergvall ultimately chips a cross into contact.
45+1 minutes: Into stoppage time. We’ll have about 4 minutes of it.
43 minutes: Spurs go near a second! Johnson runs down the best and crosses low; Tel appears set to faucet in however Konate slides in to poke the ball away from him. He then clips the Spurs participant’s ankles, however VAR deems the contact unintended and unavoidable.
41 minutes: Liverpool assume they’ve performed the ball via for Mo Salah to run onto from the midway line, however to their huge frustration the referee blows his whistle as a result of Brennan Johnson was offside a bit earlier.
39 minutes: Mac Allister spins within the centre circle, after which tries to search out Luis Diaz and fails. If he’d appeared to his left, Gakpo was in a completely indecent quantity of area, with completely no one in entrance of him.
37 minutes: Gary Neville describes Tottenham as “absolutely the good opponent for Liverpool”. They already have assists for 2 Liverpool objectives. “Absolutely there can’t be any doubt that Spurs want a managerial change,” writes Gareth Beale. “Even when they win the Europa League, are you able to think about how a group taking part in this fashion would fare within the Champions League?” There is no such thing as a doubt that change is coming. It’s clear in the best way Ange Postecoglou talks, in the best way the group performs, in every little thing about the best way this group carries themselves.
GOAL! Liverpool 3-1 Tottenham (Gakpo, 34 minutes)
As soon as it will definitely stops rolling round, Liverpool go and rating one other. It’s not nook, however Bergvall on the close to submit doesn’t a lot clear it as flick it on. Gakpo runs onto it, dances away from a few half-hearted challenges and shoots low on the flip, throughout Vicario and in on the far submit!
33 minutes: Mac Allister struggles for some time to get the ball to remain nonetheless so he can take a nook. Elliot Wilson discerned “echoes of Jimmy Connnors on the US Open 1991 vs Haarhuis in the best way Slot celebrated objective quantity two”. I’m going to should take his phrase for it.
31 minutes: Ultimately it’s performed brief to Alexander-Arnold, who blazes a shot over the bar.
30 minutes: Liverpool win a free-kick, possibly 35 yards out. Mac Allister, Szoboszlai and Alexander-Arnold talk about their choices.
29 minutes: Solanke’s flicked header loops in direction of the bar, and might need been dropping below it, so Alisson turns it over. Solanke is once more the goal with the nook, however doesn’t win the header.