Post match: West Ham v Liverpool (EPL 29/12/24 5.15pm)

Arne on Trent’s mood: “The way he celebrated tells you all you need to know about it.”

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'We are working hard to score more goals’published at 19:50 Greenwich Mean Time

19:50 GMT

FT: West Ham 0-5 Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "Today it was a good performance from our side again and we managed to score a few goals. Good match.

"It is a lot of goals [17 in last four away games for Liverpool]. We work a lot on trying to create chances and score goals. Today we could maybe have scored some more but we are working hard to do that.

"We said before the game we wanted to do everything to keep the clean sheet. We did that really well at the start of the season but in recent weeks we have conceded some goals. Hopefully from this point on we can go back to the clean sheets.

On Mohammed Salah’s assist for his goal: “Maybe it was a bit of skill, maybe it was a bit of luck, I don’t know. But he got the ball to me and I tapped it in.”

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Yeah possibly in and around the tendons, looking at where he was holding his leg

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Wasn’t Konate knee injury.

Yep

Totally. Don’t get me wrong—Slot has instilled a real sense of focus and confidence. A joy to watch.

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Lopetegui - “we have to see the match again”

Haven’t you suffered enough?

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They’ll fuck up in one of those.

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Oh my mistake

Slot made it sound like Konate won’t be out too much longer anyway?

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Arne: “We have to watch the Forest match again. Tonight.”

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Yeah still need to manage them wisely in Jan.

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Playing against us is like the zombies in World war Z, just never stop coming and from all angles.

Must be horrible for opposing defenders

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The Quanz will handle the Salford Cloggers and Ibou and Con will be back after that.

No yellows I take it.

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Wonderful times but that’s it, we def need a shiny new CB in January. Slotball seems to be hard on CBs. I wonder if Arne had the same problem in Rotterdam?

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Nope. Thankfully he got The Grav off before Taylor decided to do his thing.

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'Clean sheets are one of the reasons why you win a lot’published at 19:55 Greenwich Mean Time

19:55 GMT

FT: West Ham 0-5 Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool boss Arne Slot speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "Yeah [lots of goals] but loads of chances as well. It was 3-0 at half time but soon after that we could have scored three.

"On the other side it was good that not every chance that they had went in, they had two or three, one hit the post and one hit the bar. Against Leicester they had one chance and scored. We were a bit unlucky that we did not score in the first few minutes but as well we were lucky that at 1-0 Kudus hit the post.

"[Clean sheets] are one of the reasons why you win a lot. If everytime you have to score two, three or four goals it is difficult, at the moment we do but it is not sustainable for a longer period of time. Sometimes you need a win by keeping a clean sheet and scoring one or two.

"At the end we did not need our clean sheet but it is always good for the confidence of the back line and goalkeepers.

"If a player makes a sprint then asks to go out we know it is a hamstring and it will not take one or two days to fix. The positive thing was that Joe [Gomez]'s replacement Jarrell Quansah played an amazing game. That shows how important the squad is.

On losing just one game in 2024: “Compliments to Nottingham Forest. They were the one.”

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What a genius performance by Alexis McAllister!

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Or anywhere.

Liverpool.

Or Rome…

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