Summary

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  • FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham - Jones converts Alexander-Arnold cross before Diaz and Salah score

  • Kane volley gives visitors slight hope before Son's second and Richarlison equaliser, but Jota scores again

  • FT: Man United 1-0 Aston Villa - Fernandes with winner

  • FT: Bournemouth 4-1 Leeds - Lerma with double, Bamford replies but Solanke and Semenyo add to Leeds' woes

  • FT: Fulham 1-2 Man City - Haaland equals Premier League scoring record, Vinicius levels but Alvarez restores lead

  • FT: Newcastle 3-1 Southampton - Armstrong stuns hosts but Wilson scores twice & Walcott puts through own net

  1. Postpublished at 19:30 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    That's all from us.

    Head over here for all the match reports from today's games.

    We're back again tomorrow for a HUGE game at the bottom of the table between relegation-threatened Leicester City and Everton.

    That game kicks off at 20:00 BST.

    See you then.

  2. Leeds supporters issue 'no confidence' statementpublished at 19:27 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Bournemouth 4-1 Leeds United

    The Leeds United Supporters Advisory Board have just released the following statement after their 4-1 defeat to Bournemouth:

    "After the result and performance of the team today, the Leeds United Supporters Advisory Board (SAB) would like to place on record its lack of faith in the current management team at the club.

    "The SAB have been supportive of many decisions this year and will always work with the club to improve the way the club connects with its supporters and communities, so it is only right that we also address the current performances and the situation we are now faced with.

    "Leeds United fans have, and will always, support our club through its ‘ups and downs’, but with four games left this situation is no longer sustainable.

    "The narrow escape from relegation last season should have been the catalyst for a season of growth but this season has now turned into a humiliating disaster.

    "The appointment of Jesse Marsch, a style of play so different from that of Marcelo Bielsa, the sacking of Marcsh after the transfer window had closed, the hiring of a of a fifth-choice manager, the purchase of a £35m striker who has played hardly any minutes in a relegation dogfight, the costly and embarrassing mistakes made in the Jean Kevin Augustin case… there have been far too many questionable decisions and people must be made accountable.

    "The players must also take responsibility for their abject performances and lack of professional pride since half time against Crystal Palace. To pull on that famous white shirt is something that us fans can only dream of, yet it seems that some of the squad don’t have the fight for this battle.

    "We are therefore asking for immediate changes to be made to the first team coach and to those responsible for the recruitment of the managers and players who have been brought in over the last 14 months.

    "We would like to place on record our thanks and gratitude to the many staff, at both Thorp Arch and Elland Road, who worked tirelessly to make Leeds United a club that all of those who support it can be proud of.

    "The Supporters Advisory Board are due to meet with the club this coming week and hope that they are able to respond to this statement before the meeting takes place."

  3. Postpublished at 19:24 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    Another dramatic day in the Premier League, as always.

    Here's how the table looks at the top and the bottom. Manchester City sit a point clear with a game in hand after their win over Fulham.

    Bournemouth's 4-1 win over Leeds means Javi Gracia's side remain just a point above the bottom three with a tough run-in to come.

    Bottom club Southampton are in big trouble still after another defeat to Newcastle, which all but confirmed their Champions League status.

    Manchester United also boosted their European hopes with victory over Aston Villa.

    Liverpool go two points above Tottenham after that 4-3 win.

    .Image source, BBC Sport
    .Image source, BBC Sport
  4. 'We gave them a lifeline and they scored'published at 19:19 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool

    More from Jurgen Klopp to MOTD on whether Liverpool dropped off after 3-0: "Did we drop off? Maybe yes. In the first 20 minutes I don't know how they got on the ball. The best way defend a counter-attack is to finish your situation off, the second-best is counter-pressing. If you don't do either then there's a counter-attack. That's what they're playing for and that's why you have to do the right stuff.

    "The problem is in football the scoresheet is one [piece of] information out of 500. The one bit we misunderstood because we didn't do the other 495 things and that's enough for Tottenham to stay in the game. We gave them a lifeline and that's why it happened.

    "Before the game I would've taken each result and each performance to get the three points."

    On injuring his hamstring while celebrating Jota's goal: "I'm not sure if it's the hamstring it could be the adductor but I got punished. Little sins immediately. I turned around for the celebration because the fourth official got nothing wrong the whole time. I didn't say anything bad, I gave a look which is bad enough. The hamstring or whatever the muscle gave up in that moment. That's fair. Apart from that, all okay."

    On if Diogo Jota should have been sent off: "I understand that. Ryan [Mason] has to worry about other stuff. They're such a good football team, Tottenham, they have to play better football. They can't just counter-attack, they have to play better football with that team. Diogo Jota has the foot high but he's not going for the head.

    "I heard Oliver Skipp could've had a red card. Did he speak about that as well?

    "Wanting Diogo Jota off the pitch, worry about other stuff."

    On if Liverpool can reach the Champions League: "Of course not. If United and Newcastle wins all the games then how can we get there? If they start losing them we are close. Until then we have to win football games to qualify for Europe at all.

    "Brighton played one of the best football games this weekend I've ever seen in my life, I have to say, Roberto De Zerbi, wow. They are behind us with two games in hand. Aston Villa are developing. If we can keep them behind us that will already be success."

  5. 'A lot of things to love and not to like'published at 19:16 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool

    Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to Match of the Day: "Super start in the game, outstanding start in the game. Top, top performance in all departments of football. How we played, how we pressed, how we counter-pressed, how we defended, how we reacted. 3-0 up, wow, what a game.

    "First moment where we don't defend properly the first line doesn't react, the rest of the team is too deep, and all of a sudden we have a one-on-one in our box where Virgil van Dijk slips. You need to avoid a decision where it can be that situation.

    "Second half the game is open because they started believing or kept believing. We opened the door for them and it looked like we pushed them through a little bit as well. The second goal they scored a situation that shouldn't happen as well.

    "The third goal, a tight set-piece in 92nd minute, always tricky. You want to avoid these kinds of set-pieces. But thank god, Diogo Jota saved us. That feels great.

    "From a development point of view, a lot of things to love about that game and a lot of things not to like. That's my life and the feeling is I like the good parts so much that my feeling is that we can sort the other stuff. Let's keep going."

  6. 'Manner of final goal makes it impossible to take'published at 19:12 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Tottenham Hotspur

    More from Tottenham interim boss Ryan Mason speaking to BBC MOTD: "Difficult to put into words, to give them three goals makes our task very difficult to win the game. We created the better chances and looked like scoring every time we had the ball."

    Asked about the slow start: "I don’t know at this time, If you’re not ready to start games with full intensity you're going to concede goals and to be 3-0 down after that time is hard. The manner in which we concede the last goal makes it impossible to take. I need to speak to the players on that, we need to address it and do it quickly

    "We know were a team that can hurt opposition and score goals against anybody. But ultimately you don’t win games just with the ball, you can’t concede 4 goals as a team and take more pride in keeping clean sheets.

    "We should’ve scored more but to concede a goal in the last minute to a player that shouldn’t have been on the pitch is hard to take."

    Asked about a possible red card for Diogo Jota: "I need an explanation, I want to know why the referee on the pitch didn’t see it, but also why an experienced one in the VAR room can’t. Its hard to justify how that isn’t a red card. It ticks all the boxes for dangerous play so it's hard to understand why.

    "There’s no positives right now because we’ve lost, there’s anger and disappointment."

  7. Postpublished at 19:09 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    Jurgen Klopp has also just given an update on his injury:

    "I'm not sure it's a hamstring. It could be an adductor as well. It's painful."

    He could be out for the rest of the season. A doubt for Fulham.

  8. 'What Tierney said to me was not ok'published at 19:06 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool

    Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaking to Sky Sports: "For a long period of the first half it was the best game we had played so far. First half was good, we conceded a goal but it was the first time we didn’t defend properly. Apart from that the first half was good. The problem is Spurs do not change at all, they go for counter attacks even at 3-1 down. They just defend, counter attack and get set pieces and that makes it tricky.

    "We got away with it thank to Diogo Jota, it makes it spectacular and everybody goes home buzzing, but I am the manager of the team so I have to mention everything else as well. In 3 days' time we have to do better.

    "They had a defensive set up, but the way we started the game was brilliant, everything was there. It was nearly perfect but it seemed to lead us on the wrong path."

    On referee Paul Tierney: "How they can give a foul on Mohamed Salah [before Spurs' third goal]. We have our history with [Paul] Tierney, I really don’t know what he has against us, he has said there is no problems but that cannot be true.

    "How he looks at me, I don’t understand it. In England nobody has to clarify these situations, it’s really tricky and hard to understand. My celebration was unnecessary, which is fair but what he said to me when he gave me the yellow card is not ok."

  9. 'It's not a great tackle'published at 19:02 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool

    Liverpool's Diogo Jota to BBC Match of the Day: "A big moment for me and the team. Scoring a last-minute winner is always a day to remember. For all the people involved here it will be a special game.

    "Being 3-0 up is something we need to work on because it's not really acceptable for it to be 3-3 at that point. The mentality was there because we went forward and believed we could score the winner. Fortunately we could do that for everyone."

    On what changed to lose a 3-0 lead: "They did that last game as well. They were 2-0 down at half-time and they drew that game. We knew that being 3-0 up there was nothing done. For us it was not the best second half but in the end we got the win that was the most important."

    Winning four games in a row: "Four wins in a row is really important especially at this stage of the season where everything gets decided. We have to keep on going and we now have another game at Anfield and need to take advantage."

    On if he was lucky to get away with a yellow card for his foul on Oliver Skipp: "It's not a great tackle. I also touched the ball. I also think he gets his head down. It's just brave from him. Unfortunately it's a foot in the face. I saw the ref could see I didn't mean it and it's just football."

  10. 'It's a feeling of gut wrenching defeat'published at 19:00 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Totttenham striker Harry Kane speaking to Sky Sports: “It was a dreadful start in the first 20 minutes, it’s not the first time it’s happened this season. We need to start understanding big games better.

    "The first 20 minutes is one game but then the other 75 minutes, we had chances, hit the post and fully deserved to get back into the game. Overall, it would’ve been a great comeback. The last 10 seconds is hard to put into words how or why that happens.

    "I think over the course of the season we’ve shown we can come back into games and to do it here away at Anfield shows what we’re capable of but to have the starts we have had are hard to put into words and are unacceptable.

    "There’s only so many words you can use, the bottom line is you need to go out there and show it isn’t that case. It’s on us to go away, find a reason why and see how it improves the situation. In these moment and these games, you can’t do what we did at the end. It’s a feeling of gut wrenching defeat.

    "The table doesn’t lie, where we are doesn’t lie. We’ve got some fantastic players and moments but as a team we aren’t playing good enough collectively. We need to show we can go through games when it isn’t going our way. We deserve to be where we are. We have four games, this one is going to be hard to take but we have a week until the next game so we have to move on.

    "I live in the moment, I live to give 110 percent in every place I am. There’s loads of positives today, we did some good things especially in the second half but overall football's about winning and when you get yourself back into the game you have to find the way of getting the win and its just a sucker punch for it to end like that."

  11. 'We were better team by a country mile'published at 18:56 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham interim manager Ryan Mason, speaking to Sky Sports: "[I'm] devastated. The reality is the team that created the most chances lost the game. We were the better team by an absolute country mile. To gift a team like Liverpool four goals makes it difficult. It's tough to put it into words, absolutely gutted.

    "You have to realise and understand the Premier League and what it brings to the table every game. To start a game like that is hard to put into words and understand why. We know we prepared the game well because every time we had the ball we looked like scoring. Created a number of changes in the second half, hit the woodwork, probably one of the clearest red cards I've seen on Oliver Skipp."

    On Diogo Jota's apparent foul on Oliver Skipp: "I have to be careful what I see but ultimately that's an impossible one to miss. When you talk about endangering an opponent, to draw blood from a stud when his head if 5.5ft in the air just baffles me. That type of decision is the difference between winning the game or not. For me it's tough to understand and I'd like an explanation. I see it in real time and you have a feel for those sort of moments. The VAR official has a replay. I'm devastated about today because of the way the game went."

    On how his team rallied back: "I think we showed we can be a very good team. At the same time we also showed why we're in the position we are in the first 10-15 mins. To get back in the game and give them a goal is difficult to take."

    On if Lucas Moura made an individual mistake to give Liverpool a goal: "I'm not going to speak about individuals, those conversations stay in our changing room. The overall feeling is devastation."

    On where Tottenham are at: "I'm not sure. I remain pretty consistent in the last four or five days. It's about creating some unity at this football club, first of all our group and then the fans. The result's gone against us but barring the first 10, 15 minutes they've seen a team fighting for each other."

  12. 'Jota shouldn't be on pitch'published at 18:54 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Tottenham Hotspur

    .Image source, Getty Images

    Interim Tottenham manager Ryan Mason speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: "To give a team a three goal lead makes it almost impossible to come back from.

    "The feeling is that we can score goals and hurt opponents. We created chances, they didn't give us anything we had to work for that. To equalise at the end and then give away another goal is so hard to take.

    "I probably speak for everyone that there was some fear [after conceded three goals]. To give a team goals, it's hard to understand why. We need to address that and be better. After that we showed togetherness.

    "I don't know how many shots they had on target but it felt like we had more.

    "This is the Premier League, it's relentless and you have to be ready to fight for 95 minutes. We conceded three terrible goals and it's hard to explain why that happended. It's tough to take."

    On whether Diogo Jota should have been shown a red card: "Honestly, it's probably the clearest red card you will see on the football pitch. I need an explanation. It endangered the opponent, Skipp needs stitches and Jota has scored the goal when he shouldn't be on the pitch."

  13. Postpublished at 18:49 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool were 2-0 ahead within the opening five minutes of a Premier League game for only a third time.

    Spurs have conceded a league-high 13 goals in the opening 15 minutes of Premier League matches this season, while only three teams have ever conceded more in this period in a single campaign in the competition - Wolves in 2011-12 (16), Ipswich in 1994-95 (15) and Sheffield United in 1993-94 (14).

  14. 'Top four might be out of reach'published at 18:46 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Chris Waddle
    Ex-England winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Liverpool are putting a run together now but it might be too late for the top four.

    They aren't the team they were a couple of years ago but look at the fixtures coming up, they could win all of those.

  15. 'A day to remember'published at 18:43 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool

    .Image source, Getty Images

    Liverpool goalscorer Diogo Jota to Sky Sports: "We made it hard for ourselves. After 3-0 up we need to avoid being in this situation. In the end it will be a day to remember, the winner is always something special.

    "Everyone dreams of scoring a last-minute winner. I saw the ball that wasn't properly defended. I believed I could score and it was fantastic."

    On what Jurgen Klopp told him to do when he was subbed on: "At that moment it was important to get second balls, that's what he asked of me. The second goal gave Tottenham confidence, it's Premier League and it's hard to manage."

    When asked 'are Liverpool back?': "Yeah. It feels great and we just need to keep on going."

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    Get Involvedpublished at 18:41 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

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    Nothing more Spursy than getting a 92nd minute equaliser then conceding immediately

    Zach

    Spurs did a Liverpool, Liverpool did a Spurs and then Liverpool did a Liverpool and Spurs did a Spurs.

    Ben

    3-0, 3-3, 4-3. What. Is. Football?

    Anon

  17. 'Stuff you love to see'published at 18:37 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Liverpool

    Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold to Sky Sports: "Crazy. What a game. These are the games we love to play in. A fantastic ending to a game. Stuff you love to see to be honest.

    "It's not so much relief it's just celebration. It's pushing to get the winner again. We go from disappointment to sheer joy in a matter of minutes. Outstanding way to win a game.

    "There's a lot we need to learn. We can't be drawing 3-3 when we're 3-0 up. That's not what top sides do, we need to put the game to bed. They fought back, fair play to them. It's about winning games and that's what we've done today."

    On his new role: "It's a full-team system, not just my position has changed. Everyone has to change and adapt to it. We're enjoying it, creating chances, dominating games."

  18. Postpublished at 18:35 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Tottenham have conceded 17 Premier League goals in April, the most goals they have conceded in a calendar month in the Premier League.

  19. 'Tempo key for Reds'published at 18:33 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

    FT: Liverpool 4-3 Tottenham

    Chris Waddle
    Ex-England winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    It has been an unbelievable game. It should have been put to bed at 3-0. Tottenham deserve credit for taking opportunites on the counter.

    Liverpool need to work on playing at a high tempo during the run-in.

    Tottenham are leaking goals, six at Newcastle and four here. It's not good enough.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 18:31 British Summer Time 30 April 2023

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    And that’s why neither of these sides will be in the Champions League next season.

    Nigel