Fulham vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction today
Follow live coverage as Jurgen Klopp’s Reds get their 2022/23 campaign underway against the newly-promoted Cottagers in west London
Follow live coverage as Liverpool travel to Fulham on the opening weekend of the 2022/23 Premier League season.
Jurgen Klopp’s Reds came just one point and one place short of Manchester City in the title race last season and begin their battle to go one better this time around against the newly-promoted Cottagers on Saturday lunchtime.
Centre-back Ibrahima Konate has joined an injury list which already includes Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (hamstring), Diogo Jota (thigh), Curtis Jones (calf), second-choice goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher (groin) and Kostas Tsimikas (knock), with Naby Keita also missing. For the hosts, Marco Silva includes headline summer arrival Joao Palhinha for his Premier League debut while last year’s Championship top scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic will hope to pick up where he left off as they bid to avoid the drop.
Follow all the latest updates from Craven Cottage:
Fulham 0-0 Liverpool
3 mins: Fulham are having some early encouragement. Jordan Henderson and Andreas Pereira have a bit of a tussle but the Fulham midfielder wins the battle and slides the ball out to Neeskens Kebano who whips a cross into the box.
Mitrovic is hovering inside the area but can’t reach the ball and it bounces through to safety.
Kick off: Fulham 0-0 Liverpool
Liverpool get the match underway and work the ball over to the left side where it goes out for a Fulham throw in. The home side work the ball over to the opposite wing where Trent Alexander-Arnold fails to properly clear the ball.
A deflection takes it into the path of Aleksandar Mitrovic who snatches at an early shot and pulls it wide of goal.
Fulham vs Liverpool
Here come the teams.
Jordan Henderson leads out Liverpool with Tim Ream captaining Fulham. This will be a tricky test for the London club but they’ll be boosted by the packed house at Craven Cottage.
Can they shock Liverpool today?
Fulham vs Liverpool
Warm-ups done. Who’s going to win this early kick off?
Jurgen Klopp refuses to rule out signings to alleviate Liverpool’s injury issues
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has not ruled out dipping into the transfer market to alleviate his current injury problems but admits it is not the solution to a “four-week problem”.
Centre-back Ibrahima Konate injured a knee in the friendly against Strasbourg on Sunday which Klopp admits will see the defender out “for a while”.
He joins an injury list which already includes Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (hamstring), Diogo Jota (thigh), Curtis Jones (calf), second-choice goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher (groin) and Kostas Tsimikas (knock), with Naby Keita set to resume training on Friday after almost a week out with illness.
Jurgen Klopp refuses to rule out signings to alleviate Liverpool’s injury issues
Defender Ibrahima Konate has joined an injury list containing several first-team players
Fulham vs Liverpool
Marco Silva’s team finished top of the Championship last season with 90 points, winning 27 of their 46 games and scoring 106 goals.
Fourteen of those victories came at Craven Cottage.
Silva’s only previous win over Liverpool came in February 2017 when his Hull City team – including Andy Robertson – won 2-0 at home.
Can Salah pick up where he left off?
Mo Salah has scored in Liverpool’s opening Premier League game in each of his five seasons with the club. Can he do it again?
He goes into this game having previously scored seven opening-day goals. Only Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard (each with eight) have netted more in the Premier League era.
Jamie Vardy also has seven.
Fulham vs Liverpool
Fulham are winless in their last 10 Premier League games - with two draws and eight defeats - but their last top-flight victory came against Liverpool in March 2021.
However, they can equal the club’s top-flight record of seven consecutive home defeats, set between November 1961 and February 1962.
Fulham vs Liverpool
Fulham’s Tosin Adarabioyo is excited for the start of the new season:
Klopp on facing Fulham
Jurgen Klopp explained what it’s like facing a newly-promoted team like Fulham on the first day of the season.
“Fulham is doing really well and did last year extremely well. Yeah, getting promoted by playing football is for me one of the hardest things to do in the Championship.” he said. “They all play football, but being a real football-playing side [with] more possession [and] all these kinds of things. Set-pieces are important but not the main thing, so it gets all my respect and that’s what Fulham did.
“They were a really good team. Fabio [Carvalho] was an important part of that team. Harry [Wilson] is an important part of that team. I think he’s injured so these kind of things are of course difficult.
“In a week before we play a team, or a few days before, I read a little bit about them, not only watching games, but read a little about them and then you see.
“I think they still have a few problems to solve in the transfer market but I’m not sure, [it’s the] third for sure or maybe the fourth time in a row that we played the champion of the last Championship season, which is always full of confidence the opponent. Now it’s away.
“Fulham, they’ll be tough definitely, [it] will be a completely different game. I’m happy that we played the City game, to be honest, because we’ve had a little bit of a hint [at] where we are. But it’s a completely different game and we have to be ready for that.”
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