Liverpool vs West Ham live score, updates, highlights, lineups, and result as Bowen levels it up

ANFIELD, LIVERPOOL — Liverpool extended their fine start to the new Premier League season as they saw off a spirited West Ham United to win 3-1 at Anfield.

The Reds took the lead early in the first half when Mohamed Salah converted a penalty he had won in being tripped by Nayef Aguerd.

But the visitors fought back to deservedly level it up, the impressive Jarrod Bowen expertly placing a diving header in the corner of the Kop end goal.

A largely even contest continued into the second half, but it was the hosts who pushed ahead when Darwin Nunez poked home from Alexis Mac Allister’s sumptuous dink.

And Jurgen Klopp’s side kicked on from there, eventually making it three as substitute Diogo Jota scored from close range following a corner.

A first test of how Liverpool cope with that Thursday-Sunday schedule this season. Although they’re probably helped in this instance by the fact that West Ham are contending with the same issue. @sn_footballclub pic.twitter.com/GLpRKqDSFa

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Liverpool vs West Ham result

Final score
Goalscorers

Liverpool
3
Salah (16′), Nunez (60′), Jota (85′)

West Ham
1
Bowen (42′)

Lineups:

Liverpool lineup (4-3-3, right to left): Alisson (GK) — Gomez, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson — Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones — Salah, Nunez, Diaz

West Ham lineup (4-2-3-1, right to left): Areola (GK) — Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson — Alvarez, Soucek — Bowen, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta — Antonio

Liverpool vs West Ham live updates, highlights, and commentary

FULLTIME: LIVERPOOL 3-1 WEST HAM

Not an entirely straightforward afternoon for Liverpool but they come through with the three points.

West Ham played well for large parts of this game but couldn’t stick with their hosts after they went up a gear around the hour mark.

90th min: Szoboszlai shoots over from the edge of the box as five minutes of added time are indicated.

85th min: JOTA WRAPS IT UP FOR LIVERPOOL!

West Ham have looked threatening from set-pieces all afternoon but it’s Liverpool who finally get a goal from one.

Van Dijk rises highest to nod a Robertson corner back across goal and Jota is on hand for an easy close-range tap-in. That should be the three points.

83rd min: Zouma sees a yellow card after Gakpo’s feet are too quick for him in midfield.

80th min: Further subs for the hosts as they try and see this out, Nunez and Diaz making way for Gakpo and Jota.

West Ham are continuing to look threatening so fresh legs are definitely needed here.

77th min: Liverpool make a change of their own, Gravenberch making his Anfield debut in place of Jones, who looks spent.

75th min: A double change for West Ham, with Fornals and Kudus replacing Soucek and Antonio.

70th min: Liverpool have been much improved since taking the lead and they play it through West Ham with ease before Salah takes a shot that is easily held by Areola.

60th min: LIVERPOOL LEAD AGAIN THROUGH NUNEZ!

He’s missed some decent opportunities in this game but there’s no mistake this time from Darwin Nunez.

The Uruguayan latches onto a sumptuous dink in behind from Mac Allister and pokes it home on the volley. Anfield erupts.

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55th min: And now West Ham have a massive chance of their own! Ward-Prowse’s free-kick is met in the centre of the box by Bowen, but he can only head it straight at Alisson.

53rd min: Huge chance for Liverpool! Salah slips a cute ball in behind for Nunez but his powerful first-time attempt flies wide when he should have done so much better,

KICKOFF: LIVERPOOL GET US RESTARTED.

HALFTIME: ALL SQUARE AT THE BREAK AT ANFIELD.

45th min: Jones has the ball in the back of the net after volleying home a delicious Szoboszlai dink in behind but the flag is up straight away.

VAR has a look but that’s a straightforward one.

42nd min: WEST HAM LEVEL IT UP THROUGH BOWEN!

Bowen lays one off to Antonio and then bursts into the box to meet a Coufal cross with a diving header that goes in off the post.

It’s a brilliant finish from the Englishman and a scoreline that the visitors deserve.

40th min: Bowen dances brilliantly into the Liverpool box, where a Mac Allister challenge feeds the ball to Soucek for a deflected shot that dribbles wide.

West Ham continuing to impress in this game – they are by no means out of it.

39th min: Szoboszlai deceives the West Ham defence with an outside-of-the-boot pass to Diaz, who puts it on a plate for Salah just inside the box.

However, the Egyptian passes his finish wide of the far post when he had time to perhaps move closer before shooting.

36th min: Edson Alvarez goes into the book for a cynical block on Diaz near the edge of the West Ham penalty area.

27th min: Mac Allister drags one wide from the edge of the box after Liverpool play through West Ham on the counter.

The visitors still offering plenty of threat, though, with James Ward-Prowse testing the Reds from corners and free-kicks on a regular basis.

21st min: Van Dijk meets a Robertson corner delivery from the left on the volley but can only direct it over the bar.

16th min: SALAH SCORES FROM THE SPOT! 1-0 LIVERPOOL!

No mistake from the man they call the Egyptian King, who smashes the spot-kick down the middle.

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15th min: PENALTY TO LIVERPOOL!!!

West Ham have been all over Liverpool since this game kicked off but are punished for their first real mistake.

It comes from Aguerd, who trips up Salah after a Diaz attempt to pick out Nunez had fallen rather fortuitously for the Egyptian.

8th min: West Ham should be in front!

Soucek picks out a brilliant ball to the back post where Antonio is lurking, but he can’t get his header on target and the chance goes to waste. That’s a huge opportunity.

6th min: Great stop from Alisson! Liverpool thnk they should have a free-kick for a foul on Szoboszlai on the left but West Ham play on as Paqueta crosses for Soucek to head goalward, and only a fine save denies him.

1st min: West Ham go long to Antonio with their first play of the game – that’s a statement of intent.

KICKOFF! WEST HAM GET THE GAME UNDER WAY.

5 mins to kickoff: The players emerge at a not-quite-full Anfield. The hosts are still to complete work on their new, expanded Anfield Road stand, which it is hoped will be ready by next month.

30 mins to kickoff: The players are out for their warm-ups at what is a very windy Anfield. Jurgen Klopp once described wind as “the enemy of football” and so he’ll be hoping the conditions don’t knock his team too badly off their stride today.

1 hr to kickoff: The team news is in! Check out how both teams line-up for this one above.

1.5 hrs to kickoff: Jurgen Klopp has used his programme notes to urge his players to learn lessons from a poor first-half showing at Wolves last time out. He writes: “There was so much to like but at the same time we cannot and will not ignore the first half. That is not allowed. We will take the lessons of the bad and the good and use them because this is the only way.”

2 hrs to kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News’ live coverage of Liverpool vs West Ham in the Premier League. Today’s game pits two in-form teams up against each other, and both will hope to show that they can contend with the dreaded Thursday-Sunday schedule thrown up by their Europa League involvement.

Liverpool vs West Ham lineups, team news

After returning from suspension in midweek, Virgil van Dijk continues in defence, but Trent Alexander-Arnold misses out, meaning Joe Gomez starts at right-back. Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz keep their starting places in attack after impressing in Europe on Thursday.

Liverpool lineup (4-3-3, right to left): Alisson (GK) — Gomez, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson — Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones — Salah, Nunez, Diaz

Edson Alvarez returns following a European suspension but Moyes otherwise keeps changes to a minimum on Merseyside. Jarrod Bowen comes through a late fitness test following illness, while Aaron Cresswell misses out due to a hamstring issue.

West Ham lineup (4-2-3-1, right to left): Areola (GK) — Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson — Alvarez, Soucek — Bowen, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta — Antonio