Liverpool will travel to face West Ham this afternoon aiming for a miracle to keep their disappearing title hopes alive, live on talkSPORT.
The Reds were beaten by bitter rivals Everton in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday and now have to rely on Arsenal and Manchester City slipping up.
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Liverpool have won one in four and their title hopes are all but goneCredit: Getty
Jurgen Klopp’s side have almost no chance of getting their hands on more silverware this season after that result, but they will need to keep winning in case of an unlikely turnaround.
They take on the Hammers who are coming off the back of two consecutive defeats, being beaten convincingly by Crystal Palace last time out.
West Ham vs Liverpool: End of an era
Both West Ham and Liverpool are coming to the end of an era.
Klopp will be leaving Anfield at the end of the campaign and things are not going as planned as his side have crumbled in the Premier League title race.
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Meanwhile, it also seems that David Moyes’ tenure as Hammers boss is set to come to a close with fans unhappy with the club’s performance.
Moyes is yet to sign a new contract and he, as well as the board, understand that the fractured relationship between the support and manager will impact his future.
Both managers have been in charge of their respective clubs for many years and they have experienced success, however, it seems their times are up.
They will meet in the dugout one more time before Klopp is potentially replaced by Arne Slot and Moyes’ position is possibly taken by Julen Lopetegui.
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Both managers are set to leave at the end of the seasonCredit: AFP via Getty Images
Under Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool have only won more Premier League games against Crystal Palace (13) than they have against West Ham (12).
West Ham have lost 12 of their last 14 Premier League games against Liverpool, with both exceptions in this run coming at home (1-1 in February 2019, 3-2 in November 2021).
West Ham vs Liverpool: Team news
Jarrod Bowen has missed West Ham’s last two league games and was only able to play in Europe after having an injection.
He may be fit enough to feature while Nayef Aguerd and Konstantinos Mavropanos are both aiming to return to the squad.
As for Liverpool, Diogo Jota remains out injured after picking up a knock against Fulham.
Cody Gakpo missed the Merseyside derby due to his wife being close to giving birth but he should be back available for this one.
Thiago and Joel Matip are the two main absentees, however, Klopp could rotate his side with this being their third game in a week.
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Bowen remains a doubt after missing the last two gamesCredit: Getty
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Liverpool have already beaten West Ham 3-1 in the Premier League and 5-1 in the League Cup so far this season. This is the 11th different campaign in which they’ve faced the Hammers 3+ times, but they’ve never managed to beat them three times in any of the previous 10.
Since keeping back-to-back clean sheets against Liverpool in the 2015-16 campaign, West Ham have conceded at least once in each of their last 15 against the Reds, conceding multiple goals in 12 of those games.
West Ham vs Liverpool: What has been said?
Klopp has called for Liverpool to be more clinical after failing to score despite having seven shots on target against Everton on Wednesday.
Speaking to talkSPORT after the loss, he said: “I really think we should just try to win football games by playing better, more convincing, using our chances.
“That’s obviously the problem now over the last few weeks, I think that’s obvious. We create, we don’t use them often enough.
“To the end of the season it’s obviously not great because the first thing you need is results, for that you need to score goals, shouldn’t concede, would be helpful as well.
“Yeah, nothing good to say about this today.”
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Klopp isn’t pleased with his team’s ability to take chancesCredit: Getty
Mohamed Salah has scored 11 goals for Liverpool against West Ham in all competitions, only netting more against Manchester United (14) in his Reds career.
Jarrod Bowen has scored in both of West Ham’s meetings with Liverpool so far this season – the only Hammers player to score in three different games against the Reds in a single campaign is Geoff Hurst in 1964-65.
West Ham vs Liverpool: talkSPORT coverage
This Premier League clash will take place on Saturday, April 27.
Kick-off at the London Stadium is scheduled for 12:30pm.
talkSPORT will have live coverage of the game presented by Reshmin Chowdhury.
Commentary will come from Sam Matterface and former England captain Stuart Pearce.
talkSPORT.com will also be running a live blog of all the action.
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