Benteke goal ‘clearly offside’, says Howe

I think the team will grow. If that is not offside, it is the clearest example you will see. “It’s a tough league, it’s an unforgiving league, we’ve seen that already”, he said. In my time that has never really happened. Balls have come in and been cleared out, but because of his physicality, he keeps the ball alive in risky areas of the field.

“And that will really help”. I was very surprised at the time, even from my poor angle, that the goal was given. It gives us a different dimension to the game, while looking to retain the philosophy to move the ball and get that fluency.

Bournemouth will be hoping that they can turn their good performances into points, sooner rather than later.

Jordan Henderson faces an anxious wait ahead of Liverpool’s trip to Arsenal after being forced off against Bournemouth with a foot injury.

Skipper Elphick, a boyhood Liverpool fan, leapt highest in the box to slam home a header from a corner, and was peeling away to celebrate when referee Craig Pawson blew up to disallow it for a soft foul on Lovren.

Meanwhile Swansea City manager Garry Monk is happy with his current squad and says the club are unlikely to bring in any more new players before the transfer window closes on September 1st. “It was hugely frustrating for us tonight”.

Christian Benteke scored the only goal in Liverpool’s win on Monday.

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They c*** about with the offside rule every year and they don’t make it any better.”

The Bournemouth man marking him-and in fact the entire Bournemouth back line-were caught flat-footed, still pushing up the pitch in an attempt to play Liverpool’s attackers offside.

“We were assured that it wouldn’t be and that the rule would be adhered to correctly”.

“Under the new rules that’s clearly offside”. It is a yard and a half offside and he is clearly impacting. I just think if you’re offside, you’re offside. “I want feedback on the decisions”.

“I thought he was a real handful”, Rodgers said in a news conference.

Not since 2010 have Liverpool lost a Premier League game when winning at half-time but they were given a stern examination by the Cherries, who continued to play with a sense of enterprise, albeit without overly troubling their opponent’s goal, throughout the second half.