Liverpool 5-1 West Ham – Match Report & Ratings | OneFootball

Written by Mark Strickland

Liverpool 5-1 West Ham United: The Reds beat West Ham at Anfield in the Carabao Cup for the second successive season – by the same scoreline.

Diogo Jota and Cody Gakpo each bagged braces on either side of substitute Mohamed Salah’s goal and Edson Alvarez’s second yellow as The Reds cruised through to the Fourth Round which awaits a trip to face South Coast Brighton & Hove Albion.

It wasn’t all rosy for Arne Slot’s outfit after Liverpool gifted Julen Lotpetegui’s side a 21st-minute lead via Jarrell Quansah’s own goal before capitulating, just like last term.

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Out of favour Japan midfielder Wataru Endo was one of ten changes made by Arne Slot and it was the former Stuttgart man who inadvertently cleared the ball against Quansah which rebounded into the net.

Just four minutes later, Federico Chiesa – making his first start as a Red – acrobatically volleyed into the ground and Jota was first to react to header the equaliser.

And shortly minutes after the restart, a marauding Curtis Jones deftly slipped a pass through the legs of Max Kilman, reaching Jota who side-footed into the far right corner.

Not satisfied with a proper night off, 15 minutes after his introduction, Salah fired beyond Lukasz Fabianksi after he had denied Alexis Mac Allister with his right boot following superb work from Conor Bradley.

The Egyptian King then rode Lucas Paqueta’s lunge before Alvarez cynically upended him –Andy Madley sent him for an early bath and the race was more or less run for the Hammers.

Fabianksi was tested once again when he expertly tipped Mac Allister’s long-range strike onto the post and Gakpo fired the rebounded effort straight at the Polish ‘keeper.

However, not to be denied, 10 minutes later, Gakpo cut inside, linked up with Darwin Nunez before firing into the near corner and then found the net once again in the dying embers in the 93rd minute via a deflection.

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Player Ratings

XI: Caoimhin Kelleher 8, Conor Bradley 8, Jarrell Quansah 7, Joe Gomez 8, Kostas Tsimikas 6; Waturu Endo 6, Curtis Jones 7; Diogo Jota 8, Federico Chiesa 8, Darwin Nunez 7, Cody Gakpo 9

Subs: Mohamed Salah 8, Alexis Mac Allister 8, Tyler Morton 6, Andy Robertson 6.