Liverpool v Tottenham: Premier League – live
Full time: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham
Well that was fun.
90+7 minNow Ryan Mason is giving the fourth official a bit of a mouthful, though not quite as in your face as Klopp. He was booked by the way.
Liverpool have snatched it! It’s a nightmare for the substitute Lucas Moura, who tried to cushion the ball infield to Romero and instead gave it straight to Jota. He surged into the area, in the inside-left channel, and rifled a brilliant low shot across Forster. In the circumstances that was a nerveless finish.
Klopp celebrated by giving the fourth official a mouthful, and then pulled his hamstring! Pure comedy.
GOAL! Liverpool 4-3 Spurs (Jota 90+4)
Oh my goodness!
Of all the gin joints in all the world, Richarlison has scored his first Premier League goal for Spurs at Anfield. Son curled a superb inswinging free-kick towards Richarlison, who stooped the head the ball into the ground as Nunez’s studs flew towards his face. The ball bounced over Alisson and looped teasingly into the net.
GOAL! Liverpool 3-3 Spurs (Richarlison 90+3)
This isbonkers.
90+1 minDavies goes down holding his face after a challenge from Salah. Liverpool are furious, and Klopp lies down on the floor for some reason. It was a foul, a whack to the face, albeit accidental.
89 min“If a team was able to combine the first half performances of Manchester United with the second half performances of Tottenham, they might be able to keep up with City,” says Ian James. “What to do with the leftover halves is another question – though Chelsea might be interested.”
This is a lovely goal. Romero clipped an excellent pass over the top, which Son controlled magnificently on the half turn. That put him through on goal, and he slid a low shot past Alisson’s left foot.
There was a check for offside but the timing of the run and the pass were immaculate.
GOAL! Liverpool 3-2 Spurs (Son 77)
Now. Then.
75 minAs things stand Liverpool are fifth, which equals their highest position this season. You’d have got decent odds on that when they overran Manchester City in the Community Shield.
67 min: Spurs substitutionPape Sarr replaces Dejan Kulusevski, which means a switch to 5-3-2.
54 min: Now Romero hits the other post!Two near missed for Spurs. Kane curled a cross from the left towards Romero, and no I’ve no idea what he was doing up there. It came at an awkward height, a few yards in front of his body, so Romero improvised a volley on the stretch. The ball drifted back across in goal in slow motion, with Alisson unmoved, and bounced off the post.
54 min: Son hits the post!This one would definitely have counted. Kulusevski waved a pass infield with the outside of his left foot, which Son collected 25 yards from goal. He cut across Konate and curled a lovely shot that beat the diving Alisson and clattered off the base of the post.
44′ Kane’s goal has rejuvenated Tottenham at Anfield.
Sam Matterface live on talkSPORT: “Harry Kane should become the manager, he might as well.
“If Ryan Mason is doing it at the age of 31, why can’t Harry Kane?
“If he is going to stay there, he might as well double up, it sounded like he was calling the shots last week anyway.”
GOAL! Liverpool 3-1 Tottenham: Harry Kane
39′ SPURS HAVE ONE BACK!
They’ve managed to get bodies forward and have given themselves small chance!
Of course…it’s Kane who volleys in from Perisic’s cross!
30 min “I’d take issue with Mary Waltz,” says Martin Gamage. “I don’t think Spurs have packed it in. They’re a collection of players that have lost all form and confidence. Most worryingly, there is not one Spurs player that has improved this season. Most have got far, far worse.”
It’s like a collective professional depression. I feel a bit sorry for them.
24 min The game in miniature. Kane dithers for ages, 35 yards from his own goal, and has his pocket picked by Salah. The home fans loved that, because Kane had no idea Salah was behind him.
22 min “Alex (17 min) has a point,” says Joe Pearson. “I spent almost 40 years with one company when I could have probably done better for myself by being a bit more mercenary. Inertia is quite powerful. The devil you know, and all that.”
I wouldn’t kn-oh.
21 min “This is a classic example of a team that has packed it in and is thinking more about off-season golf instead of football,” says Mary Waltz. “Sad.”
Mo Salah has missed his last two penalties – but there’s relatively little pressure on this one, and he waves it nonchalantly down the middle.
Oh good lord. Gakpo collects a loose ball just inside the area and is wiped out by Romero. An absurd lunge and a clear penalty.
GOAL! Liverpool 3-0 Spurs (Salah 15 pen)
14 min: PENALTY TO LIVERPOOL!
12 min Elliott slides a fine pass through to Gakpo in the area. He tries to chop back inside Romero and is well challenged. But this is pretty wretched from Spurs.
9 min “Conte was 100 per cent when he said the players and organisation are to blame for the state of Spurs,” says Jeff Sax. “No manager will change that.”
7 min “Afternoon, Bobby!” says Ian Copestake. “Am listening via the media of radio, like the wireless? Loving the atmosphere. Long live old technologies!”
Tell it to the carrier pigeon mate.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Spurs (Diaz 5)
Lads. LADS!
Curtis Jones has volleyed Liverpool ahead inside three minutes. It was made by Trent Alexander-Arnold, who wandered over to the inside-right channel and curled a languid first-time cross beyond the far post. Jones, peculiarly unmarked, sidefooted a crisp half volley past Forster from six yards.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Spurs (Jones 3)
That didn’t take long.
1 min Peep peep! Dejan Kulusevski has the first kick of the game.
Premier League updates from the 4.30pm BST kick-off
It’s a big day for Mo Salah, who plays his 300th game for Liverpool. That 3-3 draw against watford can’t be six years ago, surely.
“Spurs’ chance of a top-four finish was over when they drew with Everton after being up against 10 men,” says Yash Gupta. “That match was also the end of Stellini and Conte (who had gone but remained through his staff) and Lucas Moura. Nothing this season has baffled more than Lucas Moura, out of contract in the summer, getting picked ahead of Danjuma and before that Bryan Gil, who really started to play well before being shipped off.”
Lads. LADS!
Premier League results (2pm games)
• Bournemouth 4-1 Leeds
• Fulham 1-2 Man City
• Man Utd 1-0 Aston Villa
• Newcastle 3-1 Southampton
The bad news for Liverpool and Spurs is that Newcastle and Manchester United won, so Champions League qualification looks even more unlikely than it did this morning. The good news is that Aston Villa lost, so one of these teams will be fifth in the table at sundown.
Oh, just one more thing: Manchester City have gone top of the league.
