Summary

  • Stoke City XI: Begovic, Cameron, Shawcross, Muniesa, Pieters, Nzonzi, Whelan, Walters, Adam, Arnautovic, Diouf.

  • Liverpool XI: Mignolet, Can, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Allen, Henderson, Gerrard, Lallana, Coutinho.

Live Reporting

Neil Johnston

  1. FULL-TIME

    Steven Gerrard's Liverpool career is over. Embarrassing by Liverpool. Stoke are in dreamland. Thanks for your company. Reaction to this astonishing result can be found here.

  2. Liverpool have conceded six goals in a league game for the first time since losing 7-2 to Spurs in 1963.

  3. Three minutes added time.

  4. Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown
    Final Score

    "There are defining results, if you are going lose games and lose them in this matter - then no matter how far behind someone you are, things could change.

    "If you look at it, Brendan Rodgers has not been able to convince Gerrard to stay, Sterling is obviously not happy and it has been nowhere near as good as last year.

    There will be a major board meeting after this match, maybe a new manager will be able to convince Sterling to state."

  5. This is no way for Steven Gerrard to bow out. His team-mates should hang their heads in shame.

  6. GOAL

    You can't make it up.

    Peter Crouch has only been on the pitch a few moments and the former Liverpool man adds salt to his old club's wounds as he adds a sixth goal with a perfectly placed header.

  7. OptaJoe: Stoke have scored five goals in a top-flight game for the first time since November 1982.

  8. Six minutes remaining. Liverpool players cannot wait for the whistle to go. This has been a truly awful performance.

  9. SUBSTITUTION

    Can Peter Crouch get a sixth goal for Stoke? The former Liverpool sriker is on for Marko Arnautovic.

  10. This game is petering out. After the first-half fireworks the game has descended into a scrappy affair. Adam Lallana wants a penalty after a challenge by Erik Pieters. The referee is not interested.

  11. Liverpool are finally beginning to play some decent stuff. But this has been a shambles from Brendan Rodgers' side.

  12. GOAL

    Steven Gerrard seals his Liverpool career with his 186th goal for the club after a composed finish from inside the Stoke area.

    Liverpool have a goal. But it means little in the grand scheme of things. Stoke are still heading for a big win.

  13. Nice play by Steven Gerrard as he attempts to curl the ball into the net from outside the area but the ball flies narrowly wide.

  14. SUBSTITUTION

    Here comes Stoke forward Peter Odemwingie for Jonathan Walters.

  15. Asmir Begovic denies Adam Lallana with a fine save after Gerrard flicks Coutinho's pass into the path of the midfielder. Then Gerrard forces a save from the Stoke keeper.

    It's too little too late for the Reds.

  16. Stoke City tweetTwitter

    Five goals not enough? We'll see - there's still time...

  17. Stoke have become a little casual. Hardly surprising considering what has gone on so far. Liverpool are seeing more of the ball but cannot do anything with it. Half an hour remaining.

  18. Stoke City fans are singing a song about being last on Match of the Day.

    Somehow I doubt they will be tonight.

  19. Stoke are winning 7-0 on shots on target. It says everything, absolutely everything, about Liverpool today. They have simply not turned up for Steven Gerrard's last game.

  20. Rare Liverpool corner. Stoke keeper Asmir Begovic cannot get to it but neither can a Liverpool player.

    The Reds yet to register a shot on target.