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Hello everybody and welcome to the post match verdict live here from

manfield where Liverpool have just beaten Luton town for one to extend their

lead at the top of the Premier League table.

And it was definitely a game of two halves here at Anfield

were a very much depleted Liverpool side actor

digging, show resilience, but in the end they got the job done.

This was a Liverpool team without so many first team players, you can essentially name.

And 11 of the players they were missing, no Allison Becker, no Mohammed Sala, no Darwin

Nunez, no Tiago, no Stephen Besettich, no Jota, no Curtis Jones, no

Trent Alexander Arnold, no Joel Matip,

there's so many players out, and it really,

the Stite 11 picked itself.

And after, they started quickly,

but the first half did not go as planned. They fell behind after the 12 minute when

O'Bone, he was very lively for looting, he opened the scoring. It was Chong, he had a shot saved at the near post by Kelleher but it bounces up and

Ogbonais there at the far post ahead at home. Now Liverpool do fight back they

create a number of chances Diaz in particular gets so chances, but they just can't find a way to test

Kaminsky in the Luton goal, and it feels like it's going to be one of those days for

Liverpool, like against Manchester United for Christmas, where they're getting panicked, they don't have any composure,

just look frustrated, trying shots from distance and going over the bar high and wide,

getting blocked, but then whatever Yergen-clop said at halftime it did the job they

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