West Ham vs Liverpool LIVE: Latest score and goal updates as Mohamed Salah makes Premier League history

Arne Slot’s side are looking stronger and stronger at the top of the Premier League as they make the trip to east London

Too early to celebrate – Arne Slot keeps leaders Liverpool focused

Matters are looking better and better for Liverpool as the Premier League leaders face a Sunday evening trip to West Ham.

Arne Slot’s side are flying high at the top of the table, looking full of confidence and flow even amid some contract wrangling off the pitch. An early dent at Leicester proved little impediment as Liverpool again showed off their attacking prowess in a 3-1 victory that, with Chelsea dropping points, extended their advantage at the top with a game still in hand after the Merseyside derby’s postponement earlier this month. The futures of Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk may be in some degree of doubt but there is certainty over their club’s place as red-hot title favourites.

Hoping to throw their charging visitors off course will be a West Ham side beginning, perhaps, to gel under Julen Lopetegui. The sack appeared to loom for the Spanish manager ahead of the meeting with Wolves early in December but it is now four games unbeaten after the narrow win at Southampton on Boxing Day. Can they lift their level and provide Liverpool with a stiff challenge?

Follow all of the latest from the London Stadium in our live blog below:

West Ham vs Liverpool LIVE

• West Ham host Liverpool in the Premier League | Live on Sky Sports
• Arne Slot’s visitors sit top of the table and have a game in hand on their title rivals
• 85’ GOAL! Salah sets up Jota to add Liverpool’s fifth (WHU 0-5 LIV)
• 54’ GOAL! Deflected Alexander-Arnold strike flies in (WHU 0-4 LIV)
• HT! History for Salah with another goal and assist (WHU 0-3 LIV)
• 43’ GOAL! Salah reaches 20 goals for the season with third (WHU 0-3 LIV)
• 39’ GOAL! More Salah magic as Gakpo doubles lead (WHU 0-2 LIV)
• 38’ POST! Kudus strikes upright as West Ham respond (WHU 0-1 LIV)
• 30’ GOAL! Diaz fires Liverpool ahead with clinical finish (WHU 0-1 LIV)

[29 December 2024 16:00 · Jamie Braidwood]

Liverpool vs West Ham team news and line-ups

West Ham XI: Areola; Coufal, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Emerson; Alvarez, Soler, Paqueta; Kudus, Bowen

Subs: Foderingham, Cresswell, Summerville, Fullkrug, Guilherme, Ings, Todibo, Irving, Scarles

Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; MacAllister, Gravenberch, Jones; Gakpo, Diaz, Salah

Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Nunez, Elliott, Jota, Tsimikas, McConnell, Danns, Quansah

Our line-up for the Reds 🗞️ pic.twitter.com/UaHhJSVmdz

— West Ham United (@WestHam) December 29, 2024

Our line-up to take on West Ham 🟢 #WHULIV

— Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 29, 2024

[29 December 2024 15:01 · Jamie Braidwood]

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[29 December 2024 15:00 · Jamie Braidwood]

Good evening

West Ham host Premier League leaders Liverpool at the London Stadium this evening.

A much-needed win for the Hammers at Southampton on Boxing Day, courtesy of Jarrod Bowen’s goal, moved Julen Lopetegui’s side up to 13th in the table.

Liverpool, meanwhile, extended their lead at the top of the table after coming from behind to beat Leicester at Anfield.

Mohamed Salah scored his 16th league goal of the season in the win against Leicester, yet this is his last game before he can start talking to foreign clubs about leaving Anfield.