Ipswich Town 0-2 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened
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“It is nice … we needed this one … we had a clean sheet … controlling the game quite well … we started strong … the second half was not as good as the first one … we did not concede clear chances … [Alexander Isak] is a massive player for us … probably my demands will not be about the goals … he’s going to produce the numbers … my fights with him [Iraola smiles cheekily] are more about other stuff … how to help the team … he has already played a very good amount of minutes … today we were much better in our press … we can give our number nine chances … for every centre-back to play next to Virgil [van Dijk] is a masterclass, a lesson … Jeremy [Jacquet] has played his first full game … the first two games he could not finish because he was tired … today there was a moment in the second half I was in doubt … but he has to suffer … he finished the game well … and he will build the fitness … we have good options [in midfield] … I think [Bradley Barcola] has had some very good minutes … it’s good to have him already going.”Player-of-the-match Alexander Isak talks to Sky Sports about his two-goal haul. He’s up and running as Liverpool boss.
They’ll play worse this season and win.FULL TIME: Ipswich Town 0-2 LiverpoolAndoni Iraola’s first win as Liverpool manager!90 min +5: Enciso cuts in from the left and looks for the top right. The young centre-back has recovered well after that shaky couple of minutes early in the second half.88 min: Barcola closes down O’Shea, and though the ball ricochets back off him and out for an Ipswich throw, he’s earned himself another appreciative cry from the Liverpool support.86 min: Wirtz has an opportunity to launch a counter, but misplaces the pass.
Araujo has had a good game in (one of) Liverpool’s problem position(s).81 min: Greaves slips a cute pass down the inside-left channel to release Davis, who enters the box only to be denied a chance to shoot or cross by Araujo. His third, an attempt to one-two with Wirtz, doesn’t come off.66 min: Ipswich respond with a double change of their own: Emersonn and Maeda are replaced by Clarke and Flemming, who like Barcola is also making his debut tonight.65 min: Had Isak remained on, it would have been the first time in football history that three £100m players were on the same pitch for the same team at the same time.