Liverpool travel to face West Ham this weekend in a bid to find a miracle to keep their fading title hopes alive, live on talkSPORT.
The Reds were beaten by bitter rivals Everton in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday and now have to reckon with slip-ups from Arsenal and Manchester City.
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Jurgen Klopp’s side have almost no chance of getting their hands on more silverware this season after this result, but they will need to keep winning in the event of an unlikely turnaround.
They face the Hammers who are coming off two consecutive defeats, convincingly beaten by Crystal Palace last time out.
West Ham vs Liverpool: End of an era
West Ham and Liverpool are arriving at the end of an era.
Klopp will leave Anfield at the end of the campaign and things are not going as planned as his side have collapsed in the Premier League title race.
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Meanwhile, it also appears David Moyes’ tenure as Hammers boss is set to end with fans unhappy with the club’s performance.
Moyes is yet to sign a new contract and he, along with the board, understand that the fractured relationship between support and manager will impact his future.
Both managers have been at the helm of their respective clubs for many years and enjoyed success, but it appears their time is over.
They will meet once more in the dugout before Klopp is potentially replaced by Arne Slot and Moyes’ position is possibly taken by Ruben Amorim.
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- Under Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool have only won more Premier League games against Crystal Palace (13) than against West Ham (12).
- West Ham have lost 12 of their last 14 Premier League matches against Liverpool, with the two exceptions being at home (1-1 in February 2019, 3-2 in November 2021).
West Ham vs Liverpool: team news
Jarrod Bowen missed West Ham’s last two league matches and was only able to play in Europe after receiving an injection.
He may be fit enough to feature while Nayef Aguerd and Konstantinos Mavropanos are both aiming to return to the team this weekend.
As for Liverpool, Diogo Jota remains injured after picking up a knock against Fulham.
Cody Gakpo missed the Merseyside derby as his wife was about to give birth, but he is expected to be available again for this one.
Thiago and Joel Matip are the two main absentees, however, Klopp could rotate his team as this is their third game in a week.
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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 have faced the Hammers more than 3 times, but they have never managed to beat them three times in the previous 10.
- Since keeping consecutive clean sheets against Liverpool in the 2015-16 campaign, West Ham have conceded at least once in each of their last 15 games against the Reds, conceding multiple goals in 12 of those games.
West Ham vs Liverpool: what was said?
Klopp called on Liverpool to be more clinical after failing to score despite seven shots on target against Everton on Wednesday.
Speaking to talkSPORT after the defeat, he said: “I really think we should just try to win football games by playing better, more convincingly, using our chances.
“That’s obviously the problem over the last few weeks, I think it’s obvious. We create, we don’t use them often enough.
“At the end of the season it’s obviously not great because the first thing you need is results, for that you have to score goals, you don’t have to concede, that would also be helpful.
“Yeah, nothing good to say about that today.”
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- Mohamed Salah has scored 11 goals for Liverpool against West Ham in all competitions, scoring only more against Manchester United (14) during his career with the Reds.
- Jarrod Bowen has scored in both of West Ham’s meetings against Liverpool so far this season – the only Hammers player to have scored 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 London Stadium is scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
talkSPORT will cover the match live, presented by Reshmin Chowdhury.
Comments will come from Sam Matterface and former England captain Stuart Pearce.
talkSPORT.com will also live blog all the action.
