Leeds vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction

Jurgen Klopp’s side head to Elland Road in the Premier League

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Follow live coverage as Leeds United face Liverpool in the Premier League today.

Javi Gracia and his side sit 16th in the table with eight matches left to play, having been beaten heavily by Crystal Palace on home soil last time out. They are just two places and two points above the relegation zone, with at least seven teams still in the mix and battling to avoid the bottom three.

As for Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp’s team showed an improvement in the second half to draw at home to Arsenal last weekend, but they are four without a win in the top flight and sit eighth place - where they will remain even with a win tonight.

We will bring you all the action and updates from today's game in the live blog below:

Leeds vs Liverpool LIVE updates

• Leeds - Meslier, Kristensen, Koch, Struijk, Firpo, Roca, McKennie, Sinisterra, Aaronson, Harrison, Rodrigo
• Liverpool - Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Henderson, Jones, Salah, Gakpo, Jota
• Goal! Gakpo taps in after Alexander-Arnold breaks through the Leeds defence on 35’ (0-1)
• Goal! Salah quickly doubles Reds lead after a counter-attack on 39’ (0-2)
• Goal! Sinisterra robs Konate and dinks home for Leeds on 47’ (1-2)
• Goal! Jota scores his first goal in a year (1-3)
• Goal! Salah curls in another as Leeds wilt (1-4)
• Goal! Jota gets his second with a strike in off the post (1-5)
• Goal! Darwin Nunez adds a sixth in the final minute (1-6)

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Thanks for joining our commentary today. Until next time, goodbye.

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Leeds are next in action on Saturday against Fulham at Craven Cottage. Liverpool face Nottingham Forest at Anfield on the same day.

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[17 April 2023 22:03 · Karl Matchett]

Liverpool finally find a way to make the normal stop looking improbable

Liverpool won a game. Diogo Jota scored. There was a time when neither part of that was not news but, remarkably, this was a first victory since the 7-0 evisceration of Manchester United and, for a team who increasingly alternate between hammerings and more harrowing results, it was a similarly sizeable scoreline.

Meanwhile, Jota’s brace were his first strikes in 33 games and over a year. Liverpool won an away game, which has a rarity, given that they had made it into the second half of April with a mere three triumphs on the road in the Premier League. They prevailed on their travels against one of the lesser lights which, as they amassed points tallies in the nineties, tended to be taken for granted.

Not this season. It was not a shock of the scale of Leeds United’s October win at Anfield but a six-goal salvo was an emphatic answer to Liverpool’s recent feebleness. Their habit had been instead to finish games where they were favourites without scoring. Liverpool arrived at Elland Road in the strange situation of still awaiting a first away league goal against anyone currently in the lower half of the table. They remedied that with two goals in four minutes in the first half, four at regular intervals in the second in what was, after the 7-1 at Rangers, still only their second biggest away win of the campaign.