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Follow live coverage as Liverpool travel to Fulham on the opening weekend of the 2022/23 Premier League season.

Jurgen Klopp’s Reds came just one point and one place short of Manchester City in the title race last season and begin their battle to go one better this time around against the newly-promoted Cottagers on Saturday lunchtime.

Centre-back Ibrahima Konate has joined an injury list which already includes Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (hamstring), Diogo Jota (thigh), Curtis Jones (calf), second-choice goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher (groin) and Kostas Tsimikas (knock), with Naby Keita also missing. For the hosts, Marco Silva includes headline summer arrival Joao Palhinha for his Premier League debut while last year’s Championship top scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic will hope to pick up where he left off as they bid to avoid the drop.

Follow all the latest updates from Craven Cottage:

Fulham vs Liverpool

• Fulham XI: Rodak, Tete, Tosin, Ream, Robinson, Palhinha, Reed, Pereira, Kebano, Mitrovic, Decordova-Reid
• Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Thiago, Henderson, Salah, Díaz, Firmino
• 15’ - Diaz finds the net but the offside flag is up against Robertson in the build-up
• 32’ - GOAL! Mitrovic powers in a header at the far post after a cross from the right
• 63’ - GOAL! Darwin’s backheeled flick levels the game for the Reds
• 72’ - GOAL! Mitrovic buries a penalty to restore home side’s lead
• 81’ - GOAL! Salah scores from close-range for another equaliser

[6 August 2022 11:53 · Michael Jones]

Fulham vs Liverpool

Liverpool have won their last three Premier League matches, despite conceding the opening goal within the first 15 minutes each time - only Arsenal in March 2012 have ever won four consecutive Premier League games after coming from behind.

The Reds have won their first Premier League match in each of the last four seasons, scoring at least three goals on each occasion.

[6 August 2022 11:49 · Michael Jones]

Is the Premier League too big to fail or could it fall?

A few months ago, some senior European football figures were in England for a meeting, and talk naturally turned to the “product” the Premier League is. There was admiration, but also aggravation.

A sentiment shared that evening, which is increasingly echoed across the continent, is that England’s elite competition is now “so arrogant” it “would be great if it fell”.

In one sense, you couldn’t have a greater indication of the Premier League’s power than such resentment. There has been satisfaction within Camp Nou at how Barcelona have beaten Chelsea to both Raphinha and Jules Kounde this summer, because that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

[6 August 2022 11:45 · Michael Jones]

Fulham vs Liverpool

Fulham scored 106 league goals on their way to winning the Championship title in 2021-22. Each of their last three Premier League campaigns have ended in relegation - 2013-14, 2018-19 and 2020-21.

Marco Silva will be hoping for a different result this year.

[6 August 2022 11:41 · Michael Jones]

Fulham vs Liverpool

Thiago brings up his half-century for Liverpool.

[6 August 2022 11:38 · Michael Jones]

Fulham vs Liverpool

Liverpool finished second in the last season’s top flight, scoring 94 goals, their second-highest total in the Premier League. They are unbeaten in their last 19 Premier League games - 16 wins, three draws - a run stretching back to last December.

[6 August 2022 11:30 · Michael Jones]

Fulham vs Liverpool line-ups

Fulham XI: Rodak, Tete, Tosin, Ream, Robinson, Paulhinha, Reed, Pereira, Kebano, Mitrovic, Decordova-Reid

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Thiago, Henderson, Salah, Díaz, Firmino

[6 August 2022 11:25 · Michael Jones]

Martin Tyler criticised after appearing to link Hillsborough disaster to football ‘hooligan’ incidents

Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler has been widely criticised after appearing to link the Hillsborough disaster with “other hooligan-related issues” while speaking on BBC Radio .

A total of 97 supporters died as a result of the crush which occured at the Sheffield Wednesday stadium after attending an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April, 1989.

The 1990 Taylor Report investigating the tragedy ruled that a failure of crowd control by South Yorkshire Police (SYP) was the primary reason for the deaths, while a coroner inquest between 2014 and 2016 ruled those supporters were unlawfully killed and that fans’ behaviour had no contribution to the disaster.

[6 August 2022 11:20 · Michael Jones]

How will Fulham fare in their first match back in the Prem?

Fulham have returned to the top-flight, this is the last goal they scored in the Premier League:

[6 August 2022 11:16 · Michael Jones]

Jurgen Klopp puts Mohamed Salah drop in form down to Afcon disappointment

Jurgen Klopp believes Mohamed Salah’s goals dried up at the end of last season because he was drained by Egypt’s defeat in the African Cup of Nations final.

Salah scored 31 goals in a season when he was named PFA Player of the Year and Footballer of the Year, but only three came in his final 16 appearances.

Klopp thinks the forward had an incredibly intense campaign, including 51 appearances for his club, two legs of a World Cup play-off and all seven games in the African Cup of Nations, four of which went to extra time.

[6 August 2022 11:12 · Michael Jones]

Fulham vs Liverpool

Fulham were unbeaten in both Premier League games against Liverpool in 2020-21, drawing 1-1 at home and winning 1-0 at Anfield.

But, the Cottagers have won just one of their last six Premier League home games against Liverpool - with one draw and four defeats - that victory was a 1-0 win in December 2011.