Liverpool vs West Ham

Liverpool host West Ham at Anfield buoyant from their big win against Manchester City which promises to reignite their season.

The USMNT winger did enough to get an assist but fellow sub Carney Chukwuemeka and his mates couldn’t supply the dagger. Newcastle had been buzzing along in attack until last week, when the scoreless draw against Manchester United at Old Trafford showed the strength of its defense. This will be controversial in some circles (Liverpool circles, really), but Kieran Trippier is playing better than any healthy English fullback in the Premier League right now. That Guimares bought into the project at all is impressive, but Newcastle will find it difficult to resist overtures for the Brazilian international if they can’t fast-forward their European ambitions. Almiron’s form, found: Atlanta United’s most-famous export has five goals this season including four in his last four, and he’s made the extended absence of Allan Saint-Maximin an afterthought. 22, while West Ham host Bournemouth on Monday, Oct. Michail Antonio is on the bench, while Flynn Downes comes into the starting lineup. Liverpool travel to Nottingham Forest on Saturday, Oct. He looked hungry and the most pleasing thing for Liverpool fans is that he isn’t even close to reaching his potential. Henderson and Thiago were a force in the holding midfield role as this new Liverpool 4-2-3-1 is working quite well. Disjointed West Ham pay the penalty: Aside from a few minutes at the end of each half, this was a pretty turgid Hammers display. West Ham remain on 11 points.

An Alisson penalty save, a James Milner wonder-tackle and a little bit of potential gamesmanship from Thiago and Virgil van Dijk was needed to protect the lead ...

But it was not to be — and in truth, the new deal for the Egyptian in the summer might have been the last nail in the coffin of any potential transfer move. Having already missed his penalty, the evening out at Anfield was really not going to plan for Bowen. Predictably, it flew harmlessly over the top, and relieved a rare moment of West Ham pressure. The work-rate and willingness to put in the defensive graft is a side of his game not previously seen to this extent. Tsimikas certainly seems to have earned the faith of Klopp — and with yet another assist in the bag, it is not hard to see why. The side that have been perennially top of the Fair Play table since Klopp came in appear to have found their mean streak. And while the decision to award West Ham a penalty gave But the delays caused by complaints from both Alisson and Thiago may well have got in the head of Bowen. There was one comical moment where he and Tsimikas seemed to get in a mix-up, which looked rather like the Uruguayan drunkenly confronting his reflection in a mirror. Even Andy Robertson, the man for whom he was deputising, would be proud of such a record. At right-back and centre-forward respectively, they don’t tend to occupy the same areas of the field, and everyone can get by on context. It required a double-take to realise it was not, in fact, Tsimikas.