West Brom battled back from 2-0 down but relegation is now a real worry for them.
Liverpool will be disappointed to have allowed the Baggies back into this tie.
Thank you all for enjoying the game with us today, and for your contributions in the comment section.
Until next time, goodbye!
FT: West Brom 2-2 Liverpool
After dominating for much of this game, Liverpool are on the back foot now as West Brom look to get the winner.
GOAL! Salomon Rondon makes it 2-2.
Brilliant run by Burke and he’s brought down by Henderson to give West Brom a chance to manufacture a goal from a free-kick.
Chamberlain whips in an inviting cross and finds Firmino. His header tests Foster but it West Brom are spared.
Liverpool substitution:
84′: Salah makes way as Dejan Lovren comes into the game.
That was Livermore’s first ever goal for the Baggies. Meanwhile, Salah is on his 31st Premier League goal and 41 for the season.
GOAL! Jake Livermore scores for West Brom to make it 2-1.
Blimey, it’s taken @22mosalah 72 minutes to score. Almost qualifies as a drought.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) April 21, 2018
GOAL! Mo Salah makes it 2-0 to Liverpool
West Brom really need to get a goal to strengthen their hopes of staying in the Premier League.
Liverpool’s Gomez closing in on McClean
Liverpool substitutions:
65′: Roberto Firmino replaces Ings and Mane makes way for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Nifty bit of footwork from James Milner to cut inside, but can’t get the shot off.
Liverpool appear to getting ready to make some changes.
Roberto Firmino and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain look to be the ones about to make an introduction.
Brilliant footwork from Phillips to cut in along the end line. He tries to send the ball into Rodriguez but it’s deflected out for a corner.
McClean tries to cut the ball across, but Van Dijk sends it back out. Ings then commits a foul on Rodriguez, although he appears to be claiming that Rodriguez struck him in the chest while they were on the ground.
Replays suggest that Rodriguez did make contact.
CLOSE!!
Rondon almost managed to sneak in there after a long ball in from Foster, but Liverpool alleviate the danger and drill the ball back up the pitch.
Danny Ings' early effort gives the Reds the lead but Baggies are growing into the game #WBALIV pic.twitter.com/J1HDTDc5bZ
— Premier League (@premierleague) April 21, 2018
Ings goes down following a challenge from Dawson in the penalty area but the referee waves play on.
That was a first goal for Ings in 930 days, and he really should have scored a second.
HT: West Brom 0-1 Liverpool
SAVE!!
Ings should have two goals but Foster gets down well to keep it out. Again Salah played an instrumental role in the move.
CLOSE!!
Huge opportunity for West Brom there. Great work from Livermore to chip the ball across the Liverpool box. McClean gets a touch on it but Rodriguez can’t get into the net.
West Brom starting to come into the tie more.
Phillips forces Liverpool to concede a throw and they’re pressing the Liverpool cover. Making good use of the width of the pitch.
CLOSE!!
Another inviting corner in for West Brom but again Dawson fails to connect with it.
Brunt delivers in a corner for West Brom. Dawson runs from deep and tries to get a header on it, but it runs past him.
Rondon slides in with a risky challenge but after getting a talking to from the ref, he manages to escape a yellow card.
Another Liverpool free for a challenge on Mo Salah. He is causing a lot of damage to West Brom’s defence.
But the opportunity comes to nothing and the home fans can breathe again.
It’s not a bad effort off his left boot but he just steers the ball off target. Liverpool are quite dominant in the opening 25 minutes.
Great ball in from Milner. He whips the delivery in well, but it’s a poor header in the end from Ings.
He delivers the ball into Salah shortly after, who wins a free in a dangerous position just outside the box.
Phillips is causing some problems for Liverpool. He gets a shot off at Karius, but doesn’t have enough power in it and it’s an easy save.
Brilliant play from Phillips. He turns inside his man and loops in a lovely cross in trying to link up with James McClean but it’s headed out for a corner.
Good response from the Baggies.
Salah comes threatening again, dancing his way through the West Brom cover, but a Baggies’ boot comes across to cut the ball out of play.
West Brom struggling to deal with the Egyptian King at this early stage and there’s a long way to go in this tie.
Great link-up play between Gomez and Salah in the West Brom danger area.
Great shimmy from Salah to put him through one-on-one but his effort sails over.
YES! WHAT A START!
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 21, 2018
[0-1]#WBALIV pic.twitter.com/vBuJX6UIPh
GOAL!!
Danny Ings puts Liverpool in front on 4 minutes. Great asssist by Mane.
Rondon gets on the end of the ball and tries to muscle his way past Klavan, but the referee blows the whistle for a free against him.
Liverpool move the ball up the other end and put in a dangerous cross, but it goes out for a corner which Salah will take.
And we are off at The Hawthorns. It’s the third meeting this season between the sides.
Weather looks good at The Hawthorns. Not long now until kick-off.
West Brom Starting XI:
Foster, Nyom, Gibbs, Livermore, Rondon, Phillips, Brunt, McClean, Rodriguez, Dawson, Hegazi.
📷 An unchanged XI...#WBALIV #COYB #WBA pic.twitter.com/Jtw2IqhuL9
— West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) April 21, 2018
Liverpool Starting XI:
Karius, Gomez, Van Dijk, Klavan, Moreno, Henderson, Milner, Wijnaldum, Salah, Mane, Ings
📋 The #LFC team to face @WBA...#WBALIV 👉 https://t.co/6XOx3UJ7x7 pic.twitter.com/BdTIwhw7jF
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 21, 2018
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I know this is off topic but agureo is out for 3 months after a muscle tear.
Silva went off injured last night as well. My fantasy football team is falling apart.
Sky says its a month. Aguero is one player who shouldn’t be playing and international football outside of major tournaments.
great news, i lost alot of ground last week in fantasy league!
the Liverpool club and fans get excited far to quickly. he could barely do it in the bundesliga with a world class team so how will he do it with average leftover players in a top league. it really is baffling tbh
Could barely do it?? He won it twice with them..
Another United fan far more interested in what Liverpool are doing than that gobbeam LVG
Gavin Mark doesn’t speak for the United fans, Mark is a pretty stupid individual.
Matt also implies here that Germany is not a top league. Silly Matt.
You can criticise Liverpool while still accepting the reality that their manager has a more than decent record.
Louis Van Gaal also had a bad time at Barcelona the second best team of all time.. For 6 seasons Dortmund were 50/50 with Bayern..
This proves my point , Matt clearly stated yesterday that’s he’s a Chelsea fan but because he winds up the bitters he’s automatically classed as a Manu fan ! Now there’s something familiar about that ……
Which begs the question Cian , if things where so great at dortmund why did all the players choose to leave ?????
Gavin Doyle do you not relies by now that L.van Gaal is a spoofer. :-)
Money?
Money Justin. Where did those players go when they left? Bayern- gotze & lewandowski, Kagawa – Utd, sahin- Liverpool, and the fella whose name I can’t remember went to Real Madrid. All places where the money is much better than Dortmund
Sahin actually went to madrid and from there went on loan to liverpool and back to dortmund then…
Cheers fionn
So in other words it not going to matter what he does or wins at Liverpool cause if someone offers to pay players more money they will leave.
Nucky I didn’t see Matt mention Everton at all
Lvg a spoofer??? Have you seen the state of the Dutch team since he left.
Does it have “I’m the one who klopps” on the back of it!!!!
Matt the troll strikes again. Zzzzzzzzzz.
Do they have PL winners 15/16 on the back , well I’m not getting one then
Poor Danno, you must be devastated. I’m sure United will win a game again soon so you can go back to tipping them for the league, but you might have to wait until after Crystal Place away.
Well if its isn’t ‘ the king of the bitters’ ! Ron better to concentrate on your own teams form …. But do not despair ‘The Clairvoyant One’ has spoken …. He’s not making promises but if he’s still there in 4 yrs he’ll have won the league ….. Will I laugh now ….
Danno try taking your own advice & concentrating on your own team
Danno, the irony of you saying “better to concentrate on your own team” to someone ha ha, try taking your own advice..
It’s even funnier when you say it twice