Liverpool claimed a dramatic win towards West Ham due to a late winner from captain Virgil van Dijk.
The Dutch worldwide got here up clutch for the Reds with an 89th-minute purpose to safe all three factors for the house facet only a few minutes after West Ham had levelled the sport up due to an personal purpose from Andy Robertson.
With Jamie Carragher lauding Mohamed Salah for his help for Luis Diaz’s opener, Liverpool’s defending for West Ham’s equaliser highlighted simply how stark the drop off was from the Anfield facet between the primary half and the second half.
And Carragher famous how ‘livid’ Robertson was with Van Dijk after the Scotland worldwide’s personal purpose for Liverpool.
Andy Robertson left fuming with Virgil van Dijk after Liverpool personal purpose
Talking on Sky Sports activities protection of the match, Carragher noticed how Robertson was left fuming with Van Dijk’s positioning for the personal purpose, with the pundit noting {that a} lack of communication led to the second.
With Van Dijk redeeming himself moments later for Liverpool, the Anfield captain received away with one massive time this afternoon on Merseyside, the place Robertson would have had some sturdy phrases for the Dutchman had the sport resulted in a draw.
Carragher mentioned when analysing Robertson’s response in direction of Van Dijk after the personal purpose: “Robertson is livid, he’s not proud of Van Dijk, it’s only a mess. You see how livid Robertson is, when really it’s Van Dijk.
“They nearly deal with one another! It’s a must to have a look at communication, Robertson must be screaming at him. Possibly he was and Van Dijk wasn’t listening. You may’t see it hasn’t been coming. Liverpool have been terrible within the second half, West Ham need to be in entrance.”
Liverpool proved their Premier League champion credentials
It’s a soccer cliche as outdated as time, however Liverpool’s scrappy win this afternoon was a mark of a real Premier League champion given how doubtless West Ham seemed to return away from right now’s sport with a well-known end result.
With solely six factors wanted to substantiate their standing as English champions for less than the second time this century, the end line is nicely close by for Liverpool, who’ve been the very best workforce within the Premier League by far this season.
And profitable ugly is what’s wanted for groups to go all the best way within the top-flight, with Liverpool managing simply that this afternoon towards West Ham, who shall be fuming with themselves that the couldn’t get something from this fixture.
