Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren holds hands up for mistake against West Ham

The Croatian centre-back had his pocked picked by Lanzini close to the byline and the Reds were left exposed.

Even if Lallana is fit again, he doesn’t deserve to be in the starting line-up, but Hendo – if fit – will nearly certainly return, probably at the expense of Lucas (though it should be Can who makes way). Fans went over the top in their abuse of the player on his own social media accounts, but the defender was the first to admit that his performance was not up snuff.

“In these moments you have to keep your head up and to play the rest of the game“. What can I do?

“West Ham at home will be our toughest game of the four [so far]”. I say: “You’ve got to be careful what you wish for”.

“Things like that happen but I don’t think it will shake myself and the team”. The game is finished. It was a game of two halves against Arsenal but I was hugely impressed.

Philippe Coutinho will miss Liverpool’s trip to Manchester United next week after being sent off against West Ham.

Lovren admits he has plenty to prove this season after enduring a poor first year at Anfield following his big money move from Southampton.

“It’s not just about me and Martin. All of a sudden we were right up against it”.

“What happened here is so logical”, explained Bilic, bouncing on his toes as he did in the technical area throughout the game.

Liverpool are 4/11 to keep all three points on Merseyside with Slaven Bilic’s side 8/1 and the draw 17/4 at BetVictor.

“But it is going to be like that until we get some more in, or people like Andy Carroll or Enner Valencia come back from injuries”.

Brenden Rodgers claimed that he was disappointed and did not expect for Liverpool to perform the way that they did, but he refused to assess the performance of individual players. Then to go to 2-0 against a team ready to defend and with that determination made it hard for us.

Coutinho received his second yellow card for a mis-timed tackle on Dimitri Payet, with his first booking from referee Kevin Friend having followed another foul on the Frenchman.

Though Noble saw red with just a few minutes remaining, the Londoners found a third goal on the counter as Diafra Sakho put the game beyond doubt in stoppage-time.

“But our concentration is on winning here at home, we love playing here and the support has been brilliant here”.