David Moyes makes ‘killer’ Liverpool admission as Jürgen Klopp sent ‘powerful’ message

Liverpool defeated West Ham United 5-1, maintaining their stellar record against David Moyes’ teams. The team led by Jürgen Klopp will play Fulham in the semi-final next month.

West Ham United manager David Moyes has still never beaten Liverpool at Anfield after 21 attempts (Image: Photo by Rob Newell – CameraSport via Getty Images)

Liverpool easily defeated West Ham United 5-1 at Anfield to secure its spot in the Carabao Cup semi-finals, where it will play Fulham home and away in a two-leg semi-final next month. In addition to Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, and Dominik Szoboszlai finding the back of the net, Curtis Jones scored twice.

After the game, West Ham manager David Moyes showered the Reds with praise, noting that he was always anticipating a response following Sunday’s goalless draw with Manchester United, which left Jürgen Klopp and his players frustrated. The team has now played 21 games at Anfield without a victory.

“Liverpool played very well, and we obviously didn’t play well enough,” Moyes said following the game in a live broadcast on Sky Sports. “The second goal was a killer when we were beginning to grow back into the game,” he said. We set them an extremely low bar, which made it extremely difficult for us to recover and produce any kind of outcome.

“We could have performed much better in several areas where we didn’t perform as well as we could have for some of the goals. After defeating Arsenal [in the previous round], we arguably had the most difficult draw of them all when we traveled to Anfield. Due to scheduling conflicts and the fact that we were up against a formidable opponent, we made a few adjustments in an effort to give people more opportunities to demonstrate their abilities.

It’s a challenging place to visit, and that’s what happened. Although we are involved in a few trophies, we are not offering an explanation. The European one is something we’re excited about. Although we played against a really good team that played really well, tonight was disappointing. We had a terrible time even gaining ground because they were so swift and fierce.”

West Ham, which is presently eighth in the Premier League standings, didn’t pose much of a threat that evening. Although Moyes’ team has been under duress lately, Caoimhín Kelleher hasn’t appeared to be having any ongoing problems.

Moyes frequently complimented Klopp’s team. “We were soundly defeated by a very strong team,” Moyes continued in his press conference following the game. It was a very difficult tie for everyone to make tonight, and it would have been very significant. You’re free to occasionally mention how amazing our run has been.