Liverpool vs Tottenham LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction as Reds drop crucial points
Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham: Follow reaction from Anfield as the Redscan only draw with Spurs
Tottenham blew a huge hole in Liverpool’s Premier League - and quadruple - hopes as Son Heung-min’s 20th goal of the season earned them a 1-1 draw at Anfield to gift the advantage to Manchester City.
Despite Luis Diaz’s 74th-minute equaliser and manager Jurgen Klopp going for broke, knowing he had no other option, the hosts now require their title rivals to lose one of their four remaining matches.
Even though the point took Liverpool top of the table, it was only courtesy of a superior goal difference of one and Pep Guardiola’s side will go three points clear with a win at home to Newcastle on Sunday.
The draw did little for Spurs’ top-four hopes either as they remain a point behind north London rivals Arsenal, who host struggling Leeds a couple of hours before City kick off.
Follow the reaction and updates as Liverpool take on Tottenham at Anfield:
Liverpool vs Tottenham
Tottenham can become the fifth club to record 500 Premier League wins, following Manchester United (703), Arsenal (617), Chelsea (616) and Liverpool (606).
Spurs have scored multiple goals in 11 of their last 16 league games, but failed to score in the other five matches. They are vying to keep a clean sheet in a fourth consecutive Premier League away fixture, which would equal their club record.
Liverpool vs Tottenham
Liverpool have earned 12 successive league wins at Anfield and are unbeaten in 21 top-flight home matches, scoring 52 goals and conceding nine.
The Reds have won each of their last five Premier League home fixtures without conceding - a sequence they have only bettered with an eight-match run between October 2005 and January 2006.
They have claimed 40 points from the last 42 available, only failing to win in April’s 2-2 draw at Manchester City. They have kept 11 clean sheets in those 14 games.
Liverpool vs Tottenham
Liverpool have lost one of the last 18 Premier League meetings with Tottenham - with 12 wins and five draws. Spurs ended a run of seven consecutive defeats versus the Reds in all competitions when the sides drew 2-2 in December.
There have been 23 penalties awarded in Premier League matches between these sides, more than any other fixture, while the total of 170 goals is the second highest in the competition’s history.
Liverpool vs Tottenham
The Reds are one point behind league leaders Manchester City with Spurs trailing fourth-place Arsenal by two.
Tottenham are potentially Liverpool’s toughest opponents in the remaining fixtures and earlier in the season the two sides played out a thrilling 2-2 draw in London. Jurgen Klopp knows his team cannot afford to drop points and need to keep winning to pile the pressure on City.
Victory this evening means the Reds will continue their drive towards an unprecedented quadruple. Liverpool have already lifted the Carabao Cup this season and have made it into the finals of the FA Cup and the Champions League after fighting off a Villarreal comeback to win 3-2 on Tuesday night and progress 5-2 on aggregate.
Liverpool vs Tottenham
There’ll be a bit of reaction to come from the Amex Stadium but out focus moves over to Anfield where there’s going to be a huge clash at the top of the table.
Liverpool take on Tottenham in a game with implications for both the title race and the race for the top four. Here’s a look at the two teams:
Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Henderson, Thiago, Salah, Mane, Diaz
Tottenham XI: Lloris, Royal, Romero, Dier, Davies, Sessegnon, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Kulusevski, Son, Kane
Full-time: Brighton 4 - 0 Man Utd
90+3 mins: There goes the full-time whistle. Brighton have blown Man Utd away at the Amex Stadium to move up to ninth in the Premier League table. They’re going to finish with their highest points tally of a Premier League season.
Manchester United’s vague hopes of top four are gone. They’ve fallen apart here and will do well to cling onto sixth place by the end of the season.
Brighton 4 - 0 Man Utd
90 mins: Three minutes of added time to play. Three minutes too many for Manchester United.
Brighton 4 - 0 Man Utd
88 mins: Pascal Gross’ corner finds the head of Adam Webster who knocks it over to the right-hand post where David De Gea plucks it out of the air.
Brighton 4 - 0 Man Utd
85 mins: Chance! That would have been the icing on the cake! Danny Welbeck nicks the ball off Scott McTominay and cuts inside to the tip of the ‘D’. He shoots and curls his right-footed effort agonisingly wide of the left hand post.
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