Liverpool vs West Ham Premier League 2020 football results

Final: Liverpool 2-1 West Ham
Scored: Mohamed Salah (42 pens) Diogo Jota (85) – Pablo Fornals (10)

Liverpool-no-Van-Dijk and Liverpool-have-Van-Dijk are two very different teams. Before hiring the Dutch super defender, Liverpool had a dedicated but unsafe game. After having Van Dijk, Liverpool became the perfect machine to conquer all the titles thanks to an extremely balanced kicking style between manual and manual. After the arrival of Van Dijk, great titles also followed one another until the traditional Anfield hall.

However, Van Dijk has suffered a serious injury and will probably have to stop playing until the end of this season. So coach Klopp had to go back to the period of “taking advantage of the defense” as when he had not signed Van Dijk. In the previous round, although they only beat Sheffield United 2-1, but remember, the defending champion has fired a total of 17 shots.

At West Ham’s reception on matchday 7 of the 2020/21 Premier League, in addition to Van Dijk and Matip (also with long-term injury), coach Klopp also lost his student Fabinho, who could “corner” well in position. Center of the back. Contrary to some predictions, the German military leader suddenly put his faith in Nathaniel Phillips, an unknown defender born in 1997, who had previously played for Liverpool’s first team (in the FA Cup).

With such a design, there is no doubt that the “Red Brigade” completely relies on the attack with the atomic trio Salah – Mane – Firmino with the powerful support of the angel wings named Robertson and Alexander-Arnold. However, at the moment, rival West Ham is not easy to deal with.

In the last 3 games, West Ham faced the champions and their result was undefeated in a 3: 3-0 win at Leicester, a 3-3 draw at the opponent’s hole. Tottenham sky and forced the mighty Man City to score 1-1.

However, prior to this match, Liverpool won 6/7 of the closest matchup with West Ham in all competitions (remaining match, both sides drew 1-1). Even just at Anfield, the Kop have won the last 3 times against West Ham and scored 11 goals.

Immediately after the opening whistle, host Liverpool lifted the squad and massively staged an attack to besiege the London visitors. It should be remembered that a few days ago the MFS trio were only sitting on the bench in a 2-0 win over Midtjylland in the Champions League group stage, so they were almost completely fit in this match.

However, a surprise was unleashed in the 10th minute. After a Masuaku cross down the left flank, Joe Gómez headed the ball into Fornals’ position (which started the situation) at the line 16:50 and 18. West Ham controlled calmly before finishing off the net in the corner, defeating Alisson.

Leading the table, of course, Liverpool have to ‘frantically’ organize the attack, but stumble upon a solid defense system with a 3 midfielder, two wing (side kicks) arrangement, almost alone taking responsibility. defense and rarely stop participating in attacks. The two central midfielders Soucek vs Declan Rice also bow by force, forming the first barrier.

Thus, after the first half of the first half, the powerful home team could not have a situation, despite the excellent ball control time (both above 80%). In fact, the gloomy face and blurry image kept Liverpool until the end of the first half. Too bad, The Kop had a chance to face the rival like Robertson’s volley in the minute. 36.

However, the “king” still found the tie before the break, thanks to the wisdom of Mohamed Salah. Not that the “Egyptian Messi” fell quickly to the pitch as soon as he was hit by Masuaku in the 41st minute and the referee still pointed to the 11-meter spot for an obvious error. Salah himself inherited the courage and coolness to kick the penalty in goal.

At the start of the second half, many Liverpool fans had a heartache as Masuaku reached from the left wing into the 16m50 area for Fornals to finish, but the ball came out light, not dangerous, so Alisson was easily caught. .

In general, as in the first half, the “Red Brigade” held a lot of the ball, but it was difficult to reach Fabianski’s goal because of the rush and insurance of the rival defense.

In the 67th minute, Liverpool’s defense was pretty chaotic to hold off an attack, but luckily Fornals’ last shot hit Robertson in the leg.

To create a breakthrough for the attackers, Coach Klopp threw the “trump card” of Shaqiri and Diogo Jota onto the field. In the 74th minute, Arnold crossed the ball from the right wing and Mane controlled well, pushing Salah to shoot fast, but the ball narrowly missed.

In the 77th minute, the West Ham net also had to vibrate after Diogo Jota’s close-up kick. However, after careful discussion with the VAR team, as well as directly from the field to see the situation first-hand through the screen, referee Kevin Friend refused to acknowledge the goal because Mane appeared to have committed a foul. to Fabianski.

But then in the 85th minute Diogo Jota actually put the name on the electronic board. Shaqiri smartly pushed the Portuguese forward to escape quickly to catch the ball and finish decisively, beating Fabianski.

In this situation, Sadio Mane was in an offside position, but he was very alert when he did not show any behavior on the ball, so Jota’s goal was totally valid.

The rest of the time, Liverpool only focused on defending the result, so West Ham couldn’t get a chance to reverse the game. There was no drama and The Kop won the final 2-1 to temporarily rise to the top of the 2020/21 Premier League.

TEAM

LIVERPOOL XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Andrew Robertson, Nathaniel Phillips, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold; Georginio Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, Curtis Jones (Shaqiri 70 ‘); Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino (Diogo Jota 70 ‘), Mohamed Salah (Milner 90’).

WESTERN HAM XI (5-4-1): Lukasz Fabianski; Vladimir Coufal, Fabian Balbuena, Angelo Ogbonna, Aaron Cresswell, Arthur Masuaku (Lanzini 88 ‘); Jarrod Bowen (Benrahma 89 ‘), Tomas Soucek, Declan Rice, Pablo Fornals; Sebastien Haller (Yarmolenko 74 ‘).