Dom Smith on West Ham 2-2 Liverpool
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00:00 Just outside the London Stadium here where West Ham have drawn 2-2 with Liverpool.
00:04 I think this was a deserved draw from David Moyes' side.
00:07 They've kept their European hopes alive.
00:09 They are hoping to qualify for Europe for the fourth successive season
00:13 and kept it alive with a 2-2 draw here,
00:15 in which they had to suffer, surrender quite a lot of possession.
00:18 Liverpool, of course, are expectedly the dominant side,
00:21 but not able to be their clockwork attacking selves.
00:25 In fact, they haven't been that for quite some time.
00:27 David Moyes was ecstatic after the match, speaking in his press conference,
00:31 and he hailed the importance of Jarrod Bowen,
00:33 who had missed West Ham's last four games,
00:36 but came back into this one and scored and assisted in this 2-2 draw.
00:40 For Liverpool, you have to wonder whether that is now it for their title race.
00:43 In fact, when Jurgen Klopp was asked after the match
00:46 whether this is it for Liverpool's title chances,
00:49 he said, "It's not something we think about."
00:51 But he also added that the target now is 84 points
00:54 and acknowledged that it's been a long, long time since 84 points
00:57 was enough to win a team a Premier League season.
01:00 So you have to assume that Liverpool's title chances are over
01:03 and that West Ham have done that to them with this 2-2 draw.
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