West Ham vs Liverpool LIVE commentary: Reds hoping for miracle after Premier League title blow – kick-off time, team news and talkSPORT coverage

Liverpool travel to face West Ham this weekend aiming to pull off a miracle to keep their faded title hopes alive, live on talkSPORT.

The Reds were defeated by their bitter rivals, Everton in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday and now I have to rely on Arsenal and city ​​of manchester slipping

Jurgen KloppThe German team has almost no chance of winning more titles this season after that result, but they will need to keep winning in case of an unlikely turnaround.

they assume the hammers who come from two consecutive defeats, being defeated convincingly by crystal Palace last time.

West Ham vs Liverpool: end of an era

Both West Ham and Liverpool are coming to the end of an era.

klopp will leave Anfield at the end of the campaign and things are not going to plan as his team has collapsed in the Premier League title race.

Meanwhile, it also seems that David Moyes'Remaining as Hammers boss is ready to come to an end with fans unhappy with the club's performance.

Moyes has not yet signed a new contract and both he and the board understand that the fractured relationship between support and manager will affect his future.

Both coaches have been at the helm of their respective clubs for many years and have experienced success, however, it seems that their time is up.

They will meet on the bench once more before Klopp is potentially replaced by Arne Slot and Moyes' position is possibly taken by Rubén Amorim.

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• Under Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool have only won more Premier League games against Crystal Palace (13) than against West Ham (12).
• West Ham have lost 12 of their last 14 Premier League games against Liverpool, with both exceptions coming in this run at home (1-1 in February 2019, 3-2 in November 2021).

West Ham vs Liverpool: team news

Jarrod Bowen He missed West Ham's last two league games and was only able to play in Europe after receiving an injection.

He may be fit enough to play, while Nayef Aguerd and Konstantinos Mavropanos aim to return to the team this weekend.

As for Liverpool, Diogo Jota still injured after receiving a blow Fulham.

Cody Gakpo He missed the Merseyside derby as his wife was about to give birth, but should be available again for this one.

Thiago and Joel Matip They are the two main absentees, however, Klopp could rotate his team with this being his third game in a week.

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• Liverpool have already beaten West Ham 3-1 in the Premier League and 5-1 in the League Cup so far this season. This is the 11th different campaign in which they have faced the Hammers more than 3 times, but have never managed to beat them three times in any of the previous 10.
• Since keeping consecutive clean sheets against Liverpool in the 2015-16 campaign, West Ham have conceded at least once in each of their last 15 against the Reds, conceding multiple goals in 12 of those games.

West Ham vs Liverpool: What has been said?

Klopp has called Liverpool be more clinical after failing to score despite taking seven shots on goal against Everton on Wednesday.

Speaking to talkSPORT after the defeat, he said: “I really think we should try to win football games by playing better, playing more convincingly and taking advantage of our opportunities.

“That's obviously the problem of the last few weeks, I think it's obvious. We created them, we don't use them often enough.

“Until the end of the season is obviously not great because the first thing you need is results, for that you need to score goals, you shouldn't concede, that would also be useful.

“Yes, there is nothing good to say about this today.”

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• Mohamed Salah has scored 11 goals for Liverpool against West Ham in all competitions, and has only scored more against Manchester United (14) in his Reds career.
• Jarrod Bowen has scored in both of West Ham's games against Liverpool so far this season – the only Hammers player to have scored in three different games against the Reds in a single campaign is Geoff Hurst in 1964-65.

West Ham vs Liverpool: talkSPORT coverage

This Premier League clash will take place on Saturday, April 27.

The start of the match at the London Stadium is scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

talkSPORT will have live coverage of the game hosted by Reshmin Chowdhury.

The comment will come from Sam Matterface and former England captain Stuart Pearce.

talkSPORT.com will also be live blogging all the action.