Villa give the ball away in midfield and Lille's star striker Jonathan David is played into the box. He's denied by Emiliano Martinez, who is earning his money tonight.

David: Liverpool haven’t a clue how to deal with the Atalanta man marking and press. Add in sloppy passing in the final third, the norm in recent weeks, and the passivity in defence and you can see why the team is stuttering so much.

Anon: Goals been coming for a while but this Liverpool team has more than enough firepower to win this.

Another goal conceded at Anfield by Liverpool. They have kept just one clean sheet in their last 14 home games in all competitions.

They have conceded the opening goal at Anfield in four of their last seven games.

The good news is this is a team who know how to come from behind to win - but it's not been a good performance from Liverpool at all.

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Stephen Warnock
Former England and Liverpool defender on BBC Radio 5 Live

All the good stuff that Atalanta had played has been down the right-hand side.

They get in down the right-hand side again and Zappacosta finds himself there. It's a really poor strike and it goes under Kelleher.

It goes down as an error from Kelleher and it's a big error.

Liverpool have been sloppy. It's not been good from Liverpool.

West Ham appeal for a penalty as Michail Antonio claims he's pulled over by Jonathan Tah. David Moyes thinks so too.

But the referee - and then VAR - disagree. No spot-kick.

West Ham's Michail Antonio has a difficult job tonight as an isolated striker but he's doing good work with the ball on the odd occasion he sees it.

This time he flicks the ball over two defenders' heads as he carries the ball 40 yards but then he can't pick out Lucas Paqueta.

Stephen Warnock
Former England and Liverpool defender on BBC Radio 5 Live

They are probably not playing as bad as we think they are, Liverpool. It's just the standards that they have set in the last four or five seasons have been incredible.

But they haven't really been at the races.

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John McGinn picks out Leon Bailey in the box. The Villa winger beats a defender but then fails to get sufficent bend onto his shot.

Liverpool have definitely upped their game in the last few minutes. They are in more control and have created some big chances. But it's taken them a while.

Leverkusen have their 14th shot in the 34th minute but Lukasz Fabianski is equal to Edmond Tapsoba's 20-yarder.

Villa striker Ollie Watkins is in the mood tonight. He races onto a through ball, beats a defender and slams a shot into the side-netting.

Villa keeper Emiliano Martinez isn't shy about rushing off his line and it's just as well as he's in the face of Bafode Diakite in the box and saves the Lille man's shot.

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Cody Gakpo sees the run of Harvey Elliott but he overhits the pass. He would have been in...

Leverkusen's Patrik Schick is a proper number nine. He runs onto a ball in the box and hammers in a low shot, well saved by the diving Lukas Fabianski.

No change in scores elsewhere:

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Curtis Jones has space in the box now and tries a curling strike. He hits it well but it's always rising above the far corner.

Florian Wirtz has already created four goalscoring chances, three more than West Ham's players combined.

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Same pair again as the last time as Lille's Edon Zhegrova has a chance but Emiliano Martinez saves his effort.

Stephen Warnock
Former England and Liverpool defender on BBC Radio 5 Live

You think of Mohamed Salah playing in that position and that is so often what we see from him.

This time it is Harvey Elliott and he is just an inch away from putting Liverpool ahead.

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