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00:00Let's have a look at today's teams.
00:04Arne Slott makes two changes from the Nottingham Forest match.
00:08Hervéne Kelleher comes in for the injured Alisson.
00:12Andy Robertson was left on the bench in Milan midweek,
00:15where Canate and Van Dijk both scored.
00:18Ryan Gravenberg and Alexis McAllister patrol the midfield.
00:22Mo Salah has scored nine goals in ten games against Bournemouth.
00:26Luis Diaz scored three goals against them on their last two visits to Anfield.
00:30And Darwin NĂșñez has three in the last two meetings.
00:34He's preferred to Diogo Jota, who drops to the bench.
00:38From where Federico Chiesa could make his Premier League debut,
00:41third-choice check-keeper VĂtislav Jaros is a sub.
00:48And Tony Iraiola makes three changes from the Chelsea game.
00:51Kepa returns in goal. He's on loan from Chelsea,
00:53so obviously couldn't play last week.
00:56Julian Araujo and Dean Howson come in to the defence.
01:01Long-serving Luis Cook makes his 200-league appearance for Bournemouth.
01:06Antoine Semenu has scored after three minutes here last season,
01:09but Liverpool recovered.
01:11Club record signing Evan Ilsen is looking for his first Bournemouth goal.
01:15He missed a penalty last week.
01:18Marcos Seneci and Adam Smith drop to a bench.
01:21That includes Dango Watara, who missed the Chelsea game through injury.
01:26After their astonishing win at Everton last month,
01:29Bournemouth are back in town, this time on the other side of Stanley Park.
01:33But after losing to Nottingham Forest here a week ago,
01:37Liverpool need things to clip today.
01:40Yeah, they certainly do. From Liverpool's point of view,
01:43it's about managing the game.
01:45From Bournemouth's point of view, it's about managing the occasion.
01:49Can they play in front of this crowd?
01:51Can they step up to the mantle when they need to?
01:54Can they hurt Liverpool when given the opportunity to?
01:59A yellow card already for Ryan Christie,
02:01with a really high boot there on Luis Diaz,
02:04and a booking in the opening seconds of the match.
02:08And remember, there were a record 14 bookings
02:11in Bournemouth's game against Chelsea last weekend.
02:14This weekend.
02:18Luis Diaz was sold short, Evan Ilson making up for Kluivert.
02:24This is some run.
02:26Kluivert!
02:27And Semenyov puts it away!
02:31He scored after three minutes here last season.
02:35He's only gone and done it again this season.
02:38And for the second week running, Anfield,
02:41it's start to, because Bournemouth have the lead.
02:45Yeah, I think he'll be offside, I think he goes a fraction too early here.
02:50Semenyov, but it's a lovely goal, it's a lovely build-up,
02:55great play by Kluivert as he drives forward.
02:58It's a mistake by Liverpool in midfield, it's been a sloppy start by Liverpool,
03:03but you just feel here Semenyov goes a fraction too early,
03:07it will be looked at.
03:09But that's the danger that Bournemouth possess going forward.
03:14It's not going to count, it stays at nil-nil,
03:18and Semenyov is denied another Anfielder.
03:23They need to wake up Liverpool.
03:263-1 here for Liverpool,
03:28they go the side closer than at nil-nil,
03:30half-time in that game.
03:32Luis Diaz now, sees off Araujo...
03:35Diaz!
03:37Magnificent strike, matched by the save from Kepa.
03:41Nunez just in for position.
03:44Alexander-Arnold goes to that near post,
03:47nearly scored from a corner here last week.
03:52McAllister, drilled to perfection, to Mo Salah!
03:57And Kepa saves it.
04:00Wow, just wow.
04:03Salah, quick one into Nunez.
04:06Took it well enough, gets his shot away,
04:09but it was fairly tame and comfortable for Kepa that time.
04:16Evan Ilson closing now, Kalahar.
04:19Didn't seem to take his time.
04:21Cook now for Evan Ilson.
04:24Slipping it through for Semenyov!
04:26In the hunt for a goal again, but it's brought back Kalahar.
04:33It's Diaz.
04:35Sharp, incisive.
04:38Diaz!
04:40And Kepa proves to be a formidable barrier again to Luis Diaz's hopes of an opener.
04:48Gennady.
04:51Taking the direct route to Luis Diaz, Kepa committed himself!
04:55And it's in!
04:59And of course, he doesn't succeed.
05:01Try, try again.
05:03Luis Diaz scores this time.
05:07Kepa wind-wandering.
05:09Liverpool took the direct route and are ahead.
05:14Well, it's switched off for a fraction of a second, Bournemouth.
05:18And I just wondered whether Canarte had made the wrong decision in the pass that he made.
05:23He absolutely hadn't, because there was a ball on to Luis Diaz as he...
05:27Sorry, Darwin Nunez.
05:29As Darwin Nunez showed into space, but he goes more direct.
05:33Just keep your eye on Nunez and Salah, they're the ones who go short.
05:38And it's Diaz in behind, but what is Kepa doing?
05:41Why does he feel like he has to come out and deal with that situation?
05:44That's for your defender to deal with.
05:46You've made life easy now for Luis Diaz, the touch just has to be OK.
05:51But then he can pick his head up and he can pick his space in the goal where he wants to put it.
05:57Poor mistake from the goalkeeper, and he's punished and Liverpool take the lead.
06:04Innocent's decision-making goes.
06:07That was an awful one from Kepa.
06:10They've made a couple of decent saves so far as well, in no man's land.
06:16He doesn't need to make that decision.
06:19He makes up Luis Diaz's mind, if he stays in his goal he's got the defender to beat,
06:23then he's got the goalkeeper to beat.
06:25That becomes so much more difficult.
06:28Tucked away by Luis Diaz, and it's opening up again here.
06:32Liverpool with Alexander-Arnold.
06:35And he finds Diaz again!
06:41Patrick, repeat!
06:44All of a sudden, two goals for Luis Diaz.
06:47And if things didn't click here last week for Liverpool,
06:52they are certainly clicking this week.
06:59It's all about that final decision, that final pass.
07:03Can you pick the right pass?
07:05He had runners, Trent Alexander-Arnold, and he had a number of runners,
07:11but he just waited for the perfect moment,
07:15he just knew that something would pop up,
07:18some space had arrived where there was a pre-player.
07:21Salah makes a great run down the right,
07:24so Bosley just takes in Araujo and it creates that space for Diaz,
07:30and Diaz makes the most of that space.
07:33He takes it quite close to Kepa, I wondered if he'd taken it too close,
07:37but such is the quality of Diaz and the confidence in him at the moment,
07:42he's able to find the bottom of the net again.
07:46And Liverpool, who've been...
07:49..in trouble at times in this game early on,
07:52have now got themselves two ahead.
07:54It might have been the group stages and Kluivert was playing in that game.
07:59Ah, it's only been older than it felt ten seconds ago.
08:03Here's Nunez now as Liverpool...
08:07Goes for goal again!
08:10And that is rather special for Darwin Nunez.
08:18Bournemouth have actually played OK for the Liverpool lead, 3-0.
08:24And that was a quite fabulous finish.
08:30You can feel the weight just lifting off his shoulders, Darwin Nunez,
08:34because there's been so much pressure on him.
08:38Both last season and this season, he's missed a lot of opportunities for Liverpool,
08:43but what he does is he makes the difficult things look easy,
08:47but he makes the easy things look extremely difficult.
08:50This is him in a nutshell, lovely flick on, lovely link-up play with Salah.
08:55And then as he cuts inside, you're thinking, what next?
08:58And he unleashes that left-footed curler into the far corner,
09:02Kepa fully outstretched, he can't get anywhere near it,
09:06such is the accuracy, kisses the post, and then goes into the back of the net.
09:13That's been Liverpool this first half.
09:15They've been average at times, but at times on the break they've been quite scintillating.
09:22First start of the season for Darwin Nunez.
09:26And that was a cracker.
09:30Absolutely superb strike.
09:37He's now scored four goals in Liverpool's last three games.
09:42Semenyov is dancing his way through here, but he's straight at Kanahar.
09:47Diaz, Salah...
09:50It's come to Nunez.
09:54What a touch from Salah.
10:00Plenty of time for a few more chances in this game.
10:03Here is Chiesa, took it on!
10:06Straight at Kepa.
10:08Eyes lit up straight away, is it?
10:13Alexander-Arnold in!
10:15McAllister's header, collected by Kepa.
10:18Never walk alone starts to ring around Anfield again.
10:30As Dormouth keep searching for that elusive goal again.
10:36Matara...
10:38Seemed to slip slightly.
10:48Good victory, great response to last weekend for Liverpool after that defeat against Nottingham Forest.
10:53That is now four wins in five.
10:56But on this lot, Liverpool win by three goals to nil at Anfield.