Salah and Jota save Liverpool from West Ham ambush

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And a new face appeared in the Liverpool line-up, when German Jurgen Klopp pushed Panathanel Phillips as the center of defense, with the help of young star Curtis Jones in midfield.

Liverpool restored the services of Nathaniel Phillips, 23, in January after he was on loan for Stuttgart, Germany.

Liverpool is second in the Premier League behind Everton on goal difference, where the two teams are tied on balance by 13 points, while West Ham is ranked 13th with eight points.

the match summary:

West Ham opened the scoring in the tenth minute through Pablo Fornals, after he took advantage of the error of Liverpool defender Joe Gómez to clear the ball after a cross from Arthur Masuako, so the ball reached the Spanish player in the area and shot it in the right angle of goalkeeper Alison Baker.

Liverpool tried to equalize in the 25th minute on the first dangerous opportunity for the owners of the field, after Mohamed Salah passed the ball to the next from behind, Jordan Henderson, and the captain fired it directly into West Ham’s goal, but it passed down the left post.

Liverpool’s second chance in the game came in the 37th minute, after Senegalese Sadio Mane sent the ball to left-back Andrew Robertson, who shot the bird hard, but went over the horizontal bar of goalkeeper Lukas Fabianski.

In the 41st minute, Mohamed Salah received a penalty after an interference from Arthur Masuako, to be paid for by the Egyptian star himself after depositing the ball in the middle of West Ham’s goal, and adjusting the result for his team in the 42nd minute of the match .

West Ham almost surprised Liverpool five minutes into the second half, when Arthur Masuako passed the ball to Pablo Fornals, and he almost made it into the home goal, but he went weak against goalkeeper Alison.

And Andrew Robertson sent a cross into the box that nearly went to Mohamed Salah, but goalkeeper Fabianski blocked the way and managed to miss a chance to advance to the Reds in the 68th minute.

Jurgen Klopp made two changes in the 70th minute, inserting Xherdan Shaqiri and Diogo Jota in place of Curtis Jones and Roberto Firmino, hoping to activate the offense and score the advantage.

Salah threatened West Ham again in the 74th minute, after receiving the ball from Sadio Mane to hit him with his left foot, but his shot from inside the area went far from goalkeeper Fabiansky.

In the 79th minute, the referee disallowed a goal for Liverpool scored by Jota as he turned to video technology to discover that Sadio Mane had made a mistake towards goalkeeper Fabianski before scoring the white goal.

Liverpool was able to get ahead on the scoreboard in the 85th minute, after substitute Shaqiri passed a magical ball through the West Ham defense to put the other substitute Diogo Jota in the face of the goal without supervision, and the Portuguese star he deposited into the net to the right of goalkeeper Fabianski.

Klopp replaced his player, Mohamed Salah in the 90th minute of the game, to join James Milner, until he played the five minutes that the referee counts as calculated time instead of lost.

Liverpool line-up: Alison Baker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Nathaniel Phillips, Joe Gomez, Andrew Robertson, Jordan Henderson, Jorginho Vinaldome, Curtis Jones, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino.

West Ham formation: Lukas Fabianski, Vladimir Koval, Fabian Balboina, Angelo Ogbonna, Aaron Creswell, Arthur Masuako, Declan Rice, Thomas Susek, Pablo Fornals, Jarrod Bowen, Sebastian Haller.

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