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Team<\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool made two changes as Jeremie Frimpong and Ryan Gravenberch moved into the starting line-up. <\/p>\n Alexander Isak and Mohamed Salah were the two players to be ruled out by injury.<\/p>\n Liverpool:<\/strong> Woodman, Van Dijk, Konate (Chiesa, 87), Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Gakpo, Robertson (Kerkez, 59), Frimpong (Ngumoha, 75), Gravenberch.<\/p>\n Unused subs:<\/strong> Pecsi, Gomez, Bird, Morrison, Ndiaye, Wright.<\/p>\n First half<\/strong><\/p>\n The game was just six minutes old when the hosts earned an advantage, Cunha the player to score after Liverpool failed to clear a corner ball.<\/p>\n His first shot was blocked from the edge of the area after a defensive header but the rebound fell back to the attacker\u2019s feet and his next low effort found the bottom corner via a deflection.<\/p>\n Liverpool responded with pressure and possession, though United doubled their lead in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n They broke quickly into the final third as Bruno Fernandes saw a ball across the box to Sesko saved by goalkeeper Freddie Woodman.<\/p>\n At the next delivery, Fernandes headed Luke Shaw\u2019s deep cross back to Sesko and the striker was able to bundle the ball into the net from close range.<\/p>\n A VAR check for a possible handball by Sesko judged there was not conclusive evidence for a disallowance.<\/p>\n In response, Gakpo drove a shot inches past the post from outside the area, while Florian Wirtz did similar a little later.<\/p>\n Fernandes again threatened as he struck a half-volley wide of the post from a Bryan Mbeumo cross, but it was as close as either team would come to adding to the scoreline before the break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Team Liverpool made two changes as Jeremie Frimpong and Ryan Gravenberch moved into the starting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}