FINAL SCORE: LIVERPOOL 5-0 SWANSEA
90+3 mins: Mignolet makes a save! A cross from the right, and Tammy Abraham’s header is looping in until Mignolet flings out a fist and pushes it behind! And the referee’s had enough – that’s the last touch of the game.
GOAL! LIVERPOOL 5-0 SWANSEA (OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN, 83 MINS)
Lallana has a chance, stopped by Mawson’s studs, but Swansea can’t clear. Oxlade-Chamberlain wins it, the ball goes to Alexander-Arnold on the right, whose cross hits a defender and bounces back to AOC, who hits a lovely shot that dips in at the far post!
GOAL! LIVERPOOL 4-0 SWANSEA (FIRMINO, 66 MINS)
And another one! This is a self-inflicted wound – the ball is passed to Fer in midfield, and his first-time flick back towards his defence goes nowhere near any of them and instead sets Salah running into the box, and he squares to the unmarked Firmino, who can’t miss!
GOAL! LIVERPOOL 3-0 SWANSEA (ALEXANDER-ARNOLD, 65 MINS)
That’s a first Premier League goal for Alexander-Arnold, and it nearly took the net off!
GOAL! LIVERPOOL 2-0 SWANSEA (FIRMINO, 52 MINS)
There’s the perfect cross! It’s from the foot of Coutinho, from a set piece, and it’s just impeccable, looping over the entire defence and dipping onto the right foot of Firmino, on the corner of the six-yard box, who volleys in!
HALF TIME: LIVERPOOL 1-0 SWANSEA
45+2 mins: A beautiful goal, and then not a lot else until that very late chance for Firmino. Liverpool have lacked intensity and conviction, and for the most part defending against them has been fairly straightforward. But Swansea are offering almost nothing, but for occasional disastrous own-half possession-surrender.
GOAL! LIVERPOOL 1-0 SWANSEA (COUTINHO, 6 MINS)
That is as sweet a strike of a football as you’ll ever see. I’d have that for Christmas dinner with a bit of brandy butter. Yum.
THE TEAMS
Tonight’s protagonists:
Liverpool: Mignolet, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Klavan, Robertson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Can, Wijnaldum, Salah, Firmino, Coutinho.
Subs: Karius, Lovren, Milner, Gomez, Mane, Lallana, Solanke.
Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Fer, Roque, Carroll, Routledge, Ayew, McBurnie.
Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Fer, Roque, Carroll, Routledge, Ayew, McBurnie.
Subs: Van der Hoorn, Abraham, Dyer, Nordfeldt, Clucas, Rangel, Sanches.
Referee: Kevin Friend.
Referee: Kevin Friend.