Mohamed Salah was both goalscorer and creator as Liverpool thrashed West Ham 5-0 to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League
With 54 minutes gone at London Stadium, Trent Alexander-Arnold took a pass from Ryan Gravenberch with time to wait and look up, the lack of pressure from the West Ham players almost a public snub, before spanking a deflected shot past Alphonse Areola to make it 4-0 toIn the process Alexander-Arnold did at least provide a moment of cartoon drama, performing a slightly embarrassed silencing-the-chatter celebration, one hand raised to his ear.
On the other hand, Liverpool won’t get to play West Ham every week, which is probably best for everyone concerned. It would be wrong to say West Ham collapsed in the first half here. This would imply some kind of initial resistance. Instead Julen Lopetegui’s team walked out prepped and ready to dissolve like an over‑dunked digestive biscuit.
There was a fuzzy, hungover start, both teams warily pacing out their patterns. With five minutes gone West Ham had the first sniff of a break. Bad idea. Almost immediately Liverpool woke up and should have scored, Cody Gakpo gliding inside and nudging a lovely diagonal pass to Salah close to goal, only for Areola to make a fine diving block.Already it all looked alarmingly easy for Liverpool.
The goal finally arrived with 29 minutes gone. Díaz dropped deep and took a short pass from Alexander-Arnold, then tried to feed a cute little pass in to Jones. At which point West Ham produced their most incisive one-touch combination of the half, Konstantinos Mavropanos blocking the ball against Vladimir Coufal, who deflected it straight back into the path of Díaz, who ran on to finish calmly., Slot later said – replaced by Jarell Quansah.
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