Hello and welcome to live coverage of Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur.

Salah is almost through in the box, when Firmino measures a great pass forward, but Sanchez slides in perfectly to concede a corner. Nothing comes from it.

Mane is teed up just inside the box and he curls a weak effort wide of the post. They are well on top.

Liverpool advance down the left easily but Spurs show a little more concentration when the ball gets nearer the box.

Alexander-Arnold receives a dipping ball on the edge of the box, and he lashes a first-time volley just wide of the far post.

GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Spurs. Firmino scores - Liverpool sweep the ball out to the left for Robertson in space, who curls in a cross for Firmino, between markers, and he nods into the ground and past Lloris.

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Moura scoots forward, plays it out wide and receives it, dithers just inside the box, and plays it back to Sissoko to blast wide of the post.

Liverpool are playing the ball happily enough in defence, but Spurs are keeping their shape, as you might expect given it is so early in the game.

Eriksen slides in a through ball to Moura, into the box, and Alexander-Arnold slides in to hook the ball away for a corner on the left.

No chances for either side so far, so if you have been watching, you shouldn't have. Salah looks up from the edge of the box and lifts a curling shot well over the bar.

Danny Rose managed to head the ball with the side of his face in such a way as to require treatment from the team docotr.

No goals in the first 18 seconds. Nor in the next 42.

Here's the report from the Cardiff - Chelsea game as you wait.

I'm predicting Liverpool win this 3-1, but on the one hand, it's impossible to know anything, and as we all know from the Sopranos, nobody knows anything.

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Tottenham have arrived so at least we're likely to see a game.

Here is a tweet from Liverpool suggesting they are against racism.

For Spurs, this is a chance to go three points clear of Manchester United, who have played a game more than them, and go three above Arsenal who have also played 30 games so far this season.

Liverpool begin the game a point behind Manchester City, on an even number of games. Win today, and they will consider themselves favourites. Lose, and four points is a lot of ground to be potentially making up with not many games left.

TEAMS: Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner, Mane, Salah, Firmino. Subs: Mignolet, Fabinho, Lovren, Keita, Lallana, Shaqiri, Origi. /// Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Trippier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Rose, Sissoko, Eriksen, Dele, Lucas, Kane. Subs: Gazzaniga, Davies, Foyth, Skipp, Wanyama, Son, Llorente.