Liverpool 1-0 West Ham: Darwin Nunez scores his first Anfield goal for Reds

Allison saved his archetypal Premier League punishment for Liverpool since September 2020 against Chelsea

Darwin Nunez scored his archetypal Anfield extremity for Liverpool and Alisson saved a punishment arsenic the Reds defeated West Ham successful an incident-packed encounter.

The engaged Nunez was presented with a accidental to treble the pb moments aboriginal but this clip Fabianski was capable to prevention earlier the Hammers were awarded a punishment aft Joe Gomez's foul connected Jarrod Bowen.

Bowen picked himself up to instrumentality it but Alisson produced a good diving prevention successful beforehand of the Kop to guarantee Liverpool backed up their fantabulous triumph implicit Manchester City connected Sunday with different 3 points.

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Nunez starting to settle

Liverpool fans turned up astatine Anfield wondering whether the squad could travel up the triumph implicit Manchester City connected Sunday.

The Reds person been unpredictable this play but they made it 3 consecutive wins successful each competitions arsenic Nunez made his mark.

It has not been an casual commencement to beingness for the Uruguay striker who arrived to overmuch fanfare from Benfica for an archetypal £64m successful the summer.

Against West Ham, Nunez offered further grounds helium is starting to find his bushed and confidence.

He enactment himself successful an fantabulous presumption to conscionable Tsimikas' transverse and bushed Fabianski for his 3rd extremity successful 4 games.

Nunez was lively passim and could person had a hat-trick but 37-year-old Fabianski denied him with 2 good saves portion the Liverpool guardant besides deed the station with a almighty attempt.

His scoring streak is invited quality for manager Jurgen Klopp who has mislaid Diogo Jota and Luis Diaz to wounded for the foreseeable future.

Hammers wage the price

Nobody could earnestly question the occupation David Moyes has done since returning to West Ham successful December 2019.

Two top-seven finishes and a Europa League semi-final is grounds of a nine moving guardant but the Hammers are struggling for consistency aft a sixth decision successful 11 Premier League games.

Moyes said the adjunct referee "needs to spell to Specsavers" aft being angered by the officials during the 1-1 gully astatine Southampton connected Sunday.

But his broadside lone had themselves to blasted for not taking their chances astatine Anfield.

Referee Andre Marriner awarded the Hammers a punishment soon earlier half-time aft checking the pitchside show pursuing Gomez's foul connected Bowen.

But the England guardant was brilliantly denied by Alisson, who followed up his assistance for Mohamed Salah's victor against Manchester City with a important save.

Substitute Said Benrahma and Gianluca Scamacca besides had large chances to equalise while, successful the closing moments, James Milner produced a goal-saving situation to contradict Tomas Soucek a definite equaliser.

The Hammers person present scored conscionable 9 goals successful 11 Premier League games and their deficiency of spark successful beforehand of extremity volition interest Moyes.

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