Match Report
Liverpool (2) 2-0 (0) Fulham
Premier League Match Day 32 25/26 at Anfield
Saturday 11th April 2026 KO: 17:30
Referee:
Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
Live on Sky sports
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| Match Stats |
Liverpool |
Fulham |
| Goals |
(2) 2 |
0 (0) |
|
| Scorers |
Ngumoha 36 |
- |
| Scorers |
Salah 40 |
- |
| , |
| Goal attempts |
18 |
19 |
| On target |
5 |
4 |
| Shooting Accuracy |
3.6% |
2.1% |
| Possession |
53% |
47% |
| Passes |
501 |
422 |
| Passes Success |
88% |
86% |
| Crosses |
17 |
30 |
| Crosses Success |
12% |
37% |
| Corners |
6 |
9 |
| Tackles |
11 |
11 |
| Tackles Success |
65% |
55% |
| Saves |
4 |
3 |
| Fouls |
10 |
4 |
| Offsides |
4 |
2 |
| Yellows |
0 |
0 |
| Reds |
0 |
0 |
| source: SkySports |
Two goals in five first half minutes condemned Fulham to defeat at Anfield on Saturday evening.
It was a couple of clinical finishes that proved the difference in what was an even encounter, with Rio Ngumoha and Mohamed Salah doing the damage in quick succession.
The Whites fought hard in the second half for a way back into the game, but just lacked that final product on Merseyside.
Marco Silva had named an unchanged side from the XI that began the 3-1 victory against Burnley in our most recent outing, some three weeks previous.
After a quiet start in the early evening wind, Liverpool began to turn the screw with a couple of blocked shots from Andy Robertson and Cody Gakpo, before Salah called Bernd Leno into action for the first time with a powerful shot on the angle.
Fulham had looked a threat on the counter attack but had to wait until nearly half an hour in to produce a shot on target, one from Alex Iwobi that was straight down the throat of Giorgi Mamardashvili.
We had produced plenty of nice passages without delivering the decisive blow, but that almost changed when another slick swarm upfield saw Josh King tee up Oscar Bobb, whose drive was parried by Mamardashvili.
It was the Whites’ best spell of the game, and Harry Wilson almost produced a moment of magic in front of the Kop when he opened his body up to curl beyond Mamardashvili – unfortunately, it didn’t quite drop in time and kissed the top of the net.
Joachim Andersen then drew another save from the Georgia goalkeeper, and so it was completely against the run of play when Ngumoha bent a fine strike beyond Leno and inside the far post.
One quickly became two, as Liverpool worked the ball from left to right, eventually making its way to Salah who dispatched a precise first time finish into the bottom corner.
King had shown some good moments but was often being targeted by Liverpool off the ball, so Silva elected to add some physicality by replacing him and Bobb with Saša Lukic and Emile Smith Rowe at half-time.
Within two minutes the two combined to put the ball in the net, but Lukic was clearly offside before finding the top corner.
Fulham were banging on the door second half without testing Mamardashvili, though Rodrigo Muniz will have been frustrated to see his stooping header from a corner deflect wide in the 63rd minute.
Wilson then fired off target and Castagne put a header into the arms of Mamardashvili, as we continued to probe for a way back into the contest.
Sander Berge had been a colossus in the middle of the park, and he almost created a clearcut chance for Smith Rowe after winning possession high up the pitch, but Joe Gomez made a vital interception to divert his pass behind.
From the subsequent corner, Andersen sent a header wide, before making an important block to deny Gakpo at the other end.
Ryan Sessegnon had come on to replace Antonee Robinson and soon delivered a peach of a cross for Smith Rowe who tried to guide it into the corner, only for it to drift agonisingly the wrong side of the post.
For all Fulham’s dominance, Liverpool could have put the game to bed when Calvin Bassey’s flicked clearance fell invitingly to Alexis Mac Allister, but he smashed wide from the edge of the box.
The Whites’ substitutes had caused the home side problems, with Raúl Jiménez the next to threaten, lashing a snapshot a yard wide on his left foot.
But it seemed it just wasn’t to be our day in Liverpool, with our 19 efforts on goal to the hosts’ 18 proving inconsequential.
Liverpool: Mamardashvili, Frimpong (Gomez 69), Konate, van Dijk, Robertson, Szoboszlai, Jones (Gravenberch 45), Salah (Nyoni 90), Wirtz (Mac Allister 68), Ngumoha (Isak 69), Gakpo
Unused substitutes: Kerkez, Chiesa, Ekitiké, Woodman
Goals:
Ngumoha 36 (right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Florian Wirtz.)
Salah 40 ( left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Cody Gakpo.)
Fulham: Leno, Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson (Sessegnon 69), Berge, Iwobi, Wilson (Chukwueze 80), King (Smith Rowe 45), Bobb (Lukic 45), Rodrigo Muniz (Jimenez 80)
Unused substitutes: Cairney, Cuenca, Lecomte, Diop
Referee:
Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
Attendance: N/A
Fulham are next in action against Brentford at Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday 18th of April at 12.30. live on TNT Sports.