Liverpool 4-2 Spurs

The home side scored twice in each half with Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson netting in the first period before Cody Gakpo and Harvey Elliott converted after the break, while we did eventually find a way to goal when Richarlison came off the bench to score in the 72^nd minute.

 And when Son made it 4-2 seven minutes later, we saw an opportunity to take something from the game but couldn’t add to our tally and slipped to a fourth consecutive defeat.

 For the opening few minutes we looked quite composed in possession, but Liverpool soon took control. Eight minutes in, Salah’s cross with the outside of his left foot hit the crossbar before two shots in quick succession, Salah’s shot saved by Guglielmo Vicario with Cristian Romero on hand to clear Elliott’s rebound off the line.

 We were still having some good spells of possession, passing the ball around well but it was the hosts who struck first, Gakpo clipping over a cross to the back post where Salah headed past Vicario.

 Liverpool always looked a threat coming forward while we were able to put some decent passages of play together without troubling Alisson in the Reds' goal, a final clinical ball just lacking at times. Defensively, we always had to be alert with key blocks being made to deny Salah, Luis Diaz and Trent Alexander-Arnold, who also fired over in the 42^nd minute after we were caught playing out from the back.

 Three minutes later though, we fell further behind after Vicario did well to keep out Salah’s first effort but couldn’t prevent Robertson from tucking home the rebound from close range, leaving us with a mountain to climb at the break.

 Our task got even more difficult five minutes into the second period when Liverpool added a third. Elliott robbed the ball from Emerson Royal and had time to deliver a cross which Gakpo headed into the bottom corner.

 We had our first effort on target in the 54^th minute, Pedro Porro picking out Brennan Johnson and he met the cross with a diving header which Alisson did well to save low down to his left. But five minutes later, the home side scored again when Elliott curled a superb shot into the top corner from 22 yards out.

 We did get on the scoresheet with 18 minutes remaining with a well-worked goal, Yves Bissouma’s pass finding Johnson down the right flank and his first-time cross was turned home by Richarlison. And that quickly became 4-2 on 77 minutes when Oliver Skipp, who had come on in an unfamiliar left-back role, picked out Richarlison in the box and he teed up Son to fire home. That was the fourth game in succession in which the skipper had scored at Anfield.

 That made for a frantic final few minutes, with Alexander-Arnold almost catching Vicario off his line from just a couple of yards inside our half, while Richarlison almost added a third for us but his angled drive was kept out by Alisson with Joe Gomez clearing the rebound from Johnson at the back post.

 Salah had a goal ruled out for offside while Vicario made an excellent save, rushing off his line to deny Darwin Nunez, as the game became really stretched in stoppage time, but there were no further additions to the scoreline.