Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur (2024-25)

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Liverpool v Tottenham (2024–25)

Liverpool Tottenham 5 1
HT:3–1 Report
Event	Premier League 2024-25
Date	Sunday 27 April 2025
Venue	Anfield, Liverpool
Player of the Match	Mohamed Salah
Referee	Thomas Bramall
Attendance	60,415
Weather	18 °C (64 °F)
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Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur was a match which took place at Anfield on Sunday 27 April 2025. The match will be shown live on at 4:30pm BST.

Team News

Liverpool

Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold is in contention to start after returning from injury as a substitute to score the winning goal against Leicester City last weekend.

Joe Gomez, who has not played since 9 February, could return for the final two games of the season although he is yet to resume training.

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur have no new fitness concerns for the trip to Anfield.

Son Heung-min misses a fourth game through injury.

Match facts

Head-to-head

• Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 15 home games against Tottenham in all competitions (W11, D4), winning the last three while scoring four goals each time.
• Tottenham have won just two of the last 24 Premier League meetings against Liverpool (D6, L16), with both victories coming at home.
• Spurs have failed to keep a clean sheet in any of the last 18 top-flight encounters.

Liverpool

• Liverpool have matched their Premier League tally of 24 wins from last season with five matches still to go.
• Victory against Spurs would see them equal their total points tally of 82 from 2023-24.
• The Reds have scored at least once in each of their last 29 league games, since a 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest in September. It's the second-longest scoring streak in a single Premier League campaign after Arsenal, who scored in all 38 fixtures in 2001-02.
• Mohamed Salah has scored 15 goals against Tottenham in all competitions, only netting more against Manchester United (16).
• Eleven of those 15 goals have come in the Premier League, with only Alan Shearer (14) scoring more against Spurs in the competition.
• Luis Diaz is set to play his 100th Premier League game for Liverpool, becoming the 60th player to reach the milestone for the club.
• Trent Alexander-Arnold's winner against Leicester City last weekend was the 23rd goal of his club career in all competitions but the first not scored with his right foot.

Tottenham Hotspur

• Tottenham have lost 18 Premier League games in 2024-25 under Ange Postecoglou. Only Ossie Ardiles has lost more games as Spurs manager across a single season in the competition, suffering 19 defeats in 1993-94.
• Spurs are 42 points behind Liverpool coming into this match. It is the second highest deficit against a side they are facing - they trailed Arsenal by 43 points when they met at White Hart Lane in April 2004, with the Gunners securing the title against them that day.
• Spurs have conceded 10 goals against Liverpool this season, losing 6-3 in the Premier League and 4-0 in the League Cup semi-final second leg. They last conceded more against an opponent in 2013-14 when they shipped 11 versus Manchester City, while the most goals they have let in against one team in the same season is 14 versus Chelsea in 2001-02.
• Richarlison has scored four goals in his last five Premier League appearances, although Spurs have lost all four of those matches. Only Matheus Cunha (five) has scored in more defeats than Richarlison this term.

Match Report

Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions in style - and drew level with Manchester United on 20 titles - as Tottenham Hotspur were demolished on a day of wild celebrations and emotion at Anfield.

Arne Slot's side needed only a point to complete the formalities of their coronation, although Spurs briefly threatened a plot twist when former Liverpool striker Dominic Solanke headed them into an early lead.

The shock jolted Liverpool into action, the title was signed and sealed with three goals before the break that sent their expectant fans into ecstasy at the high point of Slot's spectacular first season in succession to Jurgen Klopp.

Luis Diaz turned in Dominic Szoboszlai's pass from close range to put Liverpool level after 16 minutes, the goal given after the Hungarian was initially adjudge to be offside.

Any lingering doubts and anxiety were banished eight minutes later when Alexis Mac Allister fired spectacularly past Spurs keeper Guglielmo Vicario from the edge of the area.

And Anfield's title party really started when Cody Gakpo was allowed time and space inside the area to turn and score Liverpool's third after 34 minutes.

Liverpool laid siege to the Spurs goal in front of the Kop in the second half, Mohamed Salah cutting inside to get on the scoresheet, before accepting a phone to take a memorable selfie after 63 minutes.

As Spurs, collapsed, Destiny Udogie turned into his own net under pressure from Salah six minutes later.

The win allowed triumphant Liverpool to celebrate a title win in front of their own fans for the first time since 1990, as they last lifted the trophy behind closed doors at Anfield in 2020 during the Covid pandemic.

It was almost 35 years to the day since Liverpool and their fans sampled the sense of triumph that comes with clinching a title in front of their own supporters, when Queen's Park Rangers were beaten 2-1 on 28 April 1990.

Liverpool's triumph came during the pandemic, so this was a celebration three decades in the making for many fans - and they celebrated in a style befitting the long wait.

Anfield was surrounded by fans hours before kick-off, the team coach emerging from plumes of red smoke on this landmark day,

And Liverpool delivered brilliantly, never settling for the one point they required, sweeping Spurs away in a manner that illustrated the remarkable work done by head coach Arne Slot in his first season.

In what many regarded as the impossible job, the calm and measured Slot has overseen the smoothest of transitions as Liverpool have claimed the title at a canter.

And the joy of the day was encapsulated by Salah's response to scoring Liverpool's fourth goal, dropping to his knees in front of the Kop before taking a selfie that will become a prized possession.

The second half was simply the build-up to the release of emotion and celebration at the final whistle following a victory that was every bit as convincing as the campaign that has led Liverpool to the Premier League title.

At the final whistle, red smoke came from all sides of Anfield as Liverpool as Slot and his staff congregated in the centre circle and the entire squad raced to the Kop. Spurs, like Liverpool's rivals this season, could not get near them.

Tottenham threatened to disrupt Liverpool's planned title celebrations for a grand total of four minutes before reverting to this season's type to play the role of invited party guests to perfection.

Once Diaz had restored parity after Solanke opened the scoring, Spurs gave Liverpool the run of Anfield in the manner they have during so many of their 19 Premier League defeats in this dismal season.

Manager Ange Postecoglou was without injured captain Son Heung-min, while he kept defensive pair Cristian Romero and Micky van der Ven on the bench, along with Dejan Kulusevski, before Thursday's Europa League semi-final first leg at home to Bodo/Glimpt.

Liverpool simply carried too much power, intensity and desire for Spurs, perhaps understandable given the prize within their opponents grasp.

The visitors simply subsided in the face of Liverpool's assault - even their attempts at any sort of damage limitation falling woefully short.

Postecoglou, whose future is in serious doubt, must now try to lift his players as they try to salvage this desperate season with a European trophy.

Match

Details

27 April 2025 16:30 BST 18 °C (64 °F) live on	Liverpool	5–1	Tottenham	Anfield, Liverpool Attendance: 60,415 Referee: Thomas Bramall
	Díaz  16' Allister  24' Gakpo  34' Salah  63' Udogie  69' (o.g.)	HT:3–1 Report	Solanke  12'

Liverpool

Tottenham Hotspur

01 Alisson 66 Trent Alexander-Arnold 76' 05 Ibrahima Konaté 04 Virgil van Dijk 26 Andrew Robertson 38 Ryan Gravenberch 10 Alexis Mac Allister 83' 11 Mohamed Salah 08 Dominik Szoboszlai 68' 18 Cody Gakpo 68' 34' 07 Luis Díaz 76' Substitutes: 03 Wataru Endō 76' 09 Darwin Núñez 83' 14 Federico Chiesa 17 Curtis Jones 68' 19 Harvey Elliott 76' 90+4' 20 Diogo Jota 68' 21 Konstantinos Tsimikas 62 Caoimhín Kelleher 78 Jarell Quansah Manager: Arne Slot

01 Guglielmo Vicario 24 Djed Spence 04 Kevin Danso 33 Ben Davies 13 Destiny Udogie 15 Lucas Bergvall 14 Archie Gray 45' 10 James Maddison 45' 22 Brennan Johnson 19 Dominic Solanke 68' 11 Mathys Tel 68' Substitutes: 08 Yves Bissouma 09 Richarlison 68' 90+4' 17 Cristian Romero 21 Dejan Kulusevski 45' 23 Pedro Porro 28 Wilson Odobert 68' 29 Pape Matar Sarr 45' 31 Antonín Kinský 37 Micky van de Ven Manager: Ange Postecoglou

Man of the Match: Mohamed Salah Assistant referees: Fourth official: VAR: Assistant VAR:

Match rules 90 minutes, no extra time or penalties. Three points awarded to winner, none to loser. One point awarded to each in the event of a draw. Nine named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions

Match Stats

Liverpool	Tottenham

Possession ball
63%	37%

Shots
25	8

Shots on target
8	3

Corners
8	2

Fouls
16	9

See also

• 2024–25 Premier League: Match day 34

External links

• Match report at BBC.co.uk
• Match report at Premier League.com

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