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Key occasions
27 minutes: Earlier than that shot, a wonderful flip to the appropriate from Gravenberch, as a poor West Ham participant screams in from behind anticipating a feint to the left and simply retains on working into irrelevance.
26 minutes: Jones crosses in direction of Salah, nevertheless it’s a bit too excessive and he has to back-pedal away from aim and even then can’t management his header.
24 minutes: One other excessive cross in direction of Salah. This time Scarles goes flying in in an try to intercept it, misses, and Salah’s working off into house once more. This time he overhits a cross.
22 minutes: Wan-Bissaka performs in Calos Soler, however Alisson comes out shortly to dam the shot. From the rebound, although, Kudus chips in direction of the again publish, Alisson perhaps will get the best fingertip of a desperately flailing hand to it, however the ball drops onto the bar.
21 minutes: An opportunity for West Ham! After which Kudus hits the bar! “Even when the Liverpool dressing room is at the moment full of the aftermath waft of a Scottish fish supper and deep-fried Mars bar, worry not,” writes Justin Kavanagh, “it’ll quickly hum with the candy scent of success.”
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 West Ham (Luis Diaz, 18 minutes)
An identical assault, however a a lot better consequence! From Konate’s lengthy cross Salah spins away from Oliver Scarles, runs into house on the appropriate after which spears in a kind of outside-of-the-left-foot passes he’s so ludicrously good at. Luis Diaz, working in from the left, turns it in!
17 minutes: Shut! Konate lifts the ball over all the West Ham staff to Salah, whose first contact is majestic and from there he inevitably cuts inside and tries to twist a shot in direction of the far publish. It goes simply extensive.
15 minutes: Shut! Bradley’s shot from simply exterior the realm flies simply extensive, presumably deflecting off somebody alongside the best way as Liverpool win a nook. They play it brief, cross it throughout the field, and ultimately Curtis Jones sends in a 30-yard left-foot shot, not a foul effort with the swinger, straight at Areola.
13 minutes: Paqueta slips and clatters into the referee, knocking him over like a skittle. Happily for him Andrew Madley chooses to not PaulAlcock the scenario.
11 minutes: Liverpool cross the ball round their defence for some time, ready for West Ham to supply them a route into midfield. They chorus from doing so, and ultimately a protracted cross in direction of Salah is intercepted.
8 minutes: The ball is performed down the Liverpool proper this time, however Salah can’t outpace Max Kilman, who prods it out for a nook, which is cleared.
7 minutes: Now Luis Diaz curls in a cross nevertheless it’s too low, and Mac Allister has little to no hope of improvising a harmful header from it. All the pieces taking place via Liverpool’s No7.
6 minutes: A vivid first couple of minutes for the house facet. Luis Diaz runs down the left once more, and this time he cuts inside Wan-Bissaka and sends in a shot, which Areola saves.
4 minutes: Good work from Todibo to carry up Luis Diaz on the Liverpool left, after which to toe-poke the ball away from Jota because it ran in direction of him within the space.
3 minutes: The house followers sing Mo Salah’s identify. He’s accomplished little of curiosity to date, however he’s signed a brand new contract and everybody’s joyful about it.
1 min: Peeeeeep! After an immaculately noticed silence we lastly get below means, West Ham doing the honours.
Earlier than the sport, a minute’s silence in reminiscence of the 97 victims of the Hillsborough Catastrophe, which occurred 36 years in the past on Tuesday.
Out come the gamers! West Ham eschewing the long-sleeved anthemwear that so many groups, together with Liverpool, puzzlingly contemplate de rigeur.
A reader, whose identify I can’t discern from their e-mail handle so should stay nameless, reckons they’ve labored out why Liverpool’s gamers have been all out within the hall: “Robertson let one go within the dressing room; he’s well-known for it, and it’s one facet of his recreation that hasn’t slipped this 12 months.”
Graham Potter has a chat about what sort of influence he’s had on West Ham:
We’ve stabilised the staff. Defensively we have been conceding a misplaced so we’ve made enhancements there. We’ve been aggressive in all of the video games, I might say. A few dangerous halves however typically, with out being implausible, we’ve been in video games. We should be higher at the moment, as a result of we’re enjoying in opposition to one of the best staff.
In my naivety I actually don’t perceive how the house staff, who’ve a stunning, non-public dressing-room to sit back out in proper there, finally ends up hanging round in a semi-glorified hall earlier than they exit and heat up. Good photograph, although.
The groups!
Workforce information is in, and listed here are the names within the body this afternoon:
Liverpool: Alisson, Bradley, Konate, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Salah, Jones, Diaz, Jota. Subs: Jaros, Kelleher, Endo, Szoboszlai, Chiesa, Gakpo, Elliott,
Robertson, Quansah.
West Ham: Areola, Todibo, Mavropanos, Kilman, Wan-Bissaka, Soler, Ward-Prowse, Scarles, Kudus, Lucas Paqueta, Bowen. Subs: Fabianski, Coufal, Fullkrug, Luis Guilherme, Alvarez, Rodriguez, Soucek, Emerson Palmieri, Ferguson.
Referee: Andrew Madley.
Hi there world!
Three extra wins. That’s, at most, what Liverpool have to win the league. There aren’t any different video games, no cups, no European journeys, no internationals, no distractions and no congestion – 9 of their final 10 video games in all competitions are being performed on Sundays, together with the entire remaining seven. West Ham’s away file is (very, very marginally) higher than their residence file (1.125 factors per recreation at residence, 1.133 away) however neither is superb they usually haven’t been in a position to maintain a median of greater than a degree a recreation for some time: they’ve acquired two factors of their final 4, eight of their final eight, 12 of their final 12. In brief, they appear most unlikely to do something to derail Liverpool’s title bid. Actually, they haven’t appeared as unlikely to win a recreation since they traipsed miserably to Arsenal in February having received one level of their final 4 video games. Inevitably, soccer being soccer, they received.
Right here’s Andy Hunter’s mini preview:
It isn’t a query of who will win the Premier League title however how it will likely be received: at a canter or with Liverpool testing the nervousness ranges of their supporters as soon as once more? The reply ought to grow to be clearer after West Ham’s go to. A list of particular person errors resulted ultimately of Liverpool’s 26-game unbeaten league run at Fulham final weekend and left Arne Slot’s staff nonetheless needing 11 factors to safe the membership’s twentieth league championship, though the entire might be fewer ought to Arsenal drop any extra factors. West Ham, Leicester and Tottenham, Liverpool’s subsequent three opponents, current the extra simple path to victory than attempting to recover from the road in opposition to Chelsea, Arsenal, Brighton and Crystal Palace within the last 4 video games of the season. Anfield might be an apprehensive place on Sunday and might be trying to the staff’s skilled leaders to get the job nearly accomplished.