Well, this is it now.
There's no more rest, there's no more internationals,
this is the run-in for Liverpool to the end of the season.
It's all about business for them now, after falling out of the FA Cup last time out,
the focus very much now on the remaining games that sees them flying high in the Premier League,
and challenging for the Europa League as well, still beset by injury problems.
Those few that we hope will be back today, well, a couple make it, a few don't.
And today they take on a Brighton side who,
if haven't had the Indian sign over Liverpool recently,
have come away with a few decent results against them.
Let's take a check on the two teams, starting, as we always do, with Liverpool.
The good news of Darwin Nunez passing a fitness test and being able to play.
And the likes of Brian Gravenberg...
Ibrahima Kanate slowly returning to the squad after injury but still awaiting on
several other big players who are returning to training but not considered for this game.
But it's still a strong, lucky Liverpool team.
As for Brighton, well, they've made as many changes as any team have in the Premier League this season.
There's three changes today from the side that played and went out of the Europa League at Roma last time out.
Jo Veltman returns, as does Carlos Bolaiba and Jacob Moudet, and Cecil Gilmour and Adam Lallana.
misses out and James Milner is denied the opportunity to face Liverpool once
again he is returning from a thigh injury he's been back in training this
week but he isn't considered for selection
and this is Adingrat.
We just have support from Pascal Gross ahead of him,
that's Welbeck arriving, and Danny Welbeck scores!
What a start for Brighton.
Danny Welbeck's been in super goalscoring form of late,
and that is as emphatic a finish as you will see.
What a start for Brighton.
and there's only minutes gone.
But Liverpool have been sloppy in those couple of minutes,
they haven't come out fired.
Conor Bradley gets caught way, way too far up,
and it opens the whole side of the pitch.
Mo Salah gives the ball away very, very easy,
Conor Bradley is then caught out, and now they attack.
Can Liverpool get men back to defend it?
They seem to have enough around the ball, but then they cannot get a touch on it.
It's a great finish, but it's sloppy by Liverpool.
Well, it's a goal in two minutes for Danny Welbeck.
who, once he approached and addressed the ball, was never missing, was he?
And Kelvin Keller had absolutely not a chance.
Bradley Salah
It just won't come round for him, waiting for it to fly in the top corner.
It's better, isn't it? They've started to put him under pressure.
Nice little ball forward from Kwanzaa, Bradley, good ball back to Mo Salah,
can he bend it in, which he loves to do from that position,
just doesn't bend enough.
It's gonna come to Luis Diaz, now Darwin Nunez,
look at the blue and white striped shirts between him and goal.
That's a lot of traffic.
Luis Diaz
Again, five Brighton players there to win the ball.
Lamptey's got nowhere to go.
Good from Liverpool.
Lost it, hunted it down, won it.
Now the ball by McAllister, Salah!
Couldn't keep it down.
It's a great ball by McAllister, and it's a great run by Mo Salah.
For me, the decision was knock it down to Darwin Nunes.
Yes, he's one of the greatest goalscorers ever for Liverpool,
but that little flick inside that he could have done to Darwin Nunes
would have got his level.
And Liverpool are on the move already, Bradley who was fouled.
He's off downfield, it's Salah!
How's that not gone in?
That's a whisker away.
He has to take it quickly, it's a little bit off target
but there was nothing else he could do at that moment,
he had to take it quickly.
Salah.
On to McAllister, the challenge on him was by Lamptey,
and it is a Liverpool quarter.
Last touch was off, Vig, gone in.
How can Liverpool turn this dominance into an equalising goal?
It's over, Kwan sets towards Van Dijk, who was being well-martialed.
The chance for Liverpool, and the goal is scored by Luis Diaz,
who does level the game up.
They dealt with the initial ball in, they dealt with Van Dijk,
they didn't deal with the ball back in, and Luis Diaz scores.
That's what we needed, all the Brighton players looking at each other,
they're over at the referee, complaining about something.
It was a long ball in, it was headed back by a Brighton player, was it not?
Well, that's fine.
Yes, there's the touch-off, the Brighton player.
Most...
Well, the goal's been given, I can get by the crowd.
It's irrelevant anyway, cos he's onside when Salah plays the ball.
Yeah, he was onside.
It's a Liverpool goal, it's Luis Diaz, who probably needs a goal more than anyone
with the luck he's had in front of goal lately.
Look at McAllister hunting the ball.
It's the ball that's played in behind McAllister from this situation and then midfielder turns around there
the one now that he's got and now they're on the attack
Ladinga
He wants the goal, and he's got support from Welbeck.
And Welbeck goes outside and hits the side netting.
When he could have cut across goal, he could have gone in the goal.
In the end, it's a bit of a waste when you hit the side netting.
Ender wasn't catching them, McAllister wasn't catching them.
And here's Salah.
Looking to make something happen, McAllister, very much the man who can.
That's on to Bradley, Munoz goes for it, and goes again!
And nearly scores! An extraordinary goal.
McAllister wouldn't sit down for him.
He's still battling for it, and Brighton bring it away,
and here comes Brighton on the charge, what a touch that is by Kwanzaa.
And now Gomez is caught by Lamptey.
It's a very, very fast-flowing game, this.
How on earth did Darwin Nunez nearly even score there, never mind.
How did he not score?
Oh, he flicks it into the goalkeeper's leg, it's going in.
Kwanzaa, now Salah.
There's plenty of red forward here.
And here comes Soboslai...
and again it might still break for Liverpool here for Darwin Nunez, who is onside.
This game slows down momentarily.
Gomez quickens it up, McAllister!
Fractions, fractions in it.
Great ball by Gomez, it's also a great run from McAllister,
he's on the edge of the box, ball goes back to Gomez,
he knows what he's gonna do, he's gonna whip it in.
Great little run inside, Gross, just cannot get enough on the header.
Alexi McAllister, when he gets the ball, is always looking to make something happen.
So someone else will step forward, it's Soboslai!
And it just wasn't coming round for him.
He struck it very, very well.
Brighton very quick at the moment to try and cut off those little balls to McAllister,
they know the threat when he's in and around the Brighton penalty area.
So Liverpool look for another route towards goal,
it's Soboslai, and now it's McAllister.
And now it's Salah, and it's an incredible Liverpool goal.
What a piece of passing football that is, they have carved Brighton to pieces and Mohamed Salah scores and Liverpool have come from behind and they lead.
Brilliant, football at its best, you will not see it every week,
but my God, Liverpool ripped them apart.
You have to admire the pace of the passing,
and the vision of the players,
because balls are whipped in, controlled, quickly passed again.
Brilliant ball in, and look at this pass to Mo Salah, he's not missing that one.
Brilliant, brilliant football, brilliant to watch.
That's Welbeck, he's gonna keep that ball somehow there, in the tangle of legs.
Not now, though, he's ended up on his backside, he's slipped.
And off go Liverpool, and off goes Darwin Nunez, who's clattered to the ground.
It's Salah, here comes Luis Diaz!
It's Luis Diaz again for Liverpool!
A double for Diaz, or is it not, it's not going to count.
The flag's gone up really late this time.
And it's a massive let-off for Verbruggen.
Or is it?
Or is it is right, because while I'm looking at it, I don't see any offside.
I did see a free kick in the middle of the park for Liverpool, but...
What a ball this is.
He's onside, this is a goal, surely.
It's close.
Well, it's a lengthy, lengthy check.
It is that tight, but it looks from there as though Lewis Dunk is playing him onside.
It is offside, wow.
A little under 16 minutes to go, that's a good run by Moudet.
And Kwanzaa just closed the door on Welbeck to make sure he wasn't getting there.
Great defender, wasn't it?
Well, here comes Dunk, he's scored at both ends in these games in the past,
he'd love one in the right end here.
And up they go, it's Van Eyck who jumps, the header was won by Kwanzaa.
Away...
Brilliantly by Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz has Mohamed Salah in support,
here goes Salah, still Salah!
And save by Verbruggen.
You're just looking at this now and you're hoping this is not another Man United.
Because we have so much possession, we need to kill it off.
Mo, straight through, would he have been able to get it to Diaz?
Lovely touch by Welbeck, there's a foul there by Virgil van Dijk.
Still a sense that...
Liverpool need another goal because Brighton are not going to stop coming.
And the header is a good one, and it's tipped around the post by Kelleher.
Hasn't been asked a question of since the second minute, but he has been now.
Dunkwin's a very good header.
Oh, Luis Diaz has experience but he's lost it, and Veltman, and Lallana!
Well, that could have hurt the team that he did so much for.
That's not his priority now, Liverpool, Brighton's his priority,
and he nearly sticks this in the back of the net,
Diaz gives it away so, so cheaply, it's a good ball through,
Lallana, one-touch, hits, just past that post.
It's almost like...
Broadly.
Super touch, super take, Lexi McAllister.
It's another wonderful piece of football from the Argentine.
It's Elliott for Liverpool, and it's gonna come through towards Salah!
What a stop!
Verbruggen there with a huge right hand.
How on earth did he get across there?
What a save.
Block off the defender as well, took the pace off it,
so he was able to get over then.
Salah's shot, and just a little bit of pace taken off it, what a save.
There's no time to carry on, there's no need to carry on.
Jurgen Klopp defeats Roberto Di Zerbi for the first time.
Liverpool have a huge three points, they're back to the top of the Premier League.
My, oh, my, they're going to run our nerves right down to the limit
between now and the end of the season.
Liverpool 2, Brighton 1.