Tottenham vs Liverpool

22 December 2024 · Premier League · 2024/25 · Referee Samuel Barrott

Full time 3 – 6

Half-time: 1–3

James Maddison 41’
Dejan Kulusevski 72’
Dominic Solanke 83’

Luis Díaz 23’, 85’
Alexis Mac Allister 36’
Dominik Szoboszlai 45+1’
Mohamed Salah 54’, 61’

Match summary

Liverpool won comfortably, 6-3 away at Tottenham. Liverpool led 3-1 at half-time.

In the first half, Luis Díaz put Liverpool ahead with a header in the 23rd minute, set up by Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alexis Mac Allister made it 0-2 with a header in the 36th minute, James Maddison pulled one back to make it 1-2 in the 41st minute, and Dominik Szoboszlai made it 1-3 in first-half stoppage time, set up by Mohamed Salah. In the second half, Mohamed Salah made it 1-4 in the 54th minute, Salah made it 1-5 in the 61st minute, set up by Dominik Szoboszlai, Dejan Kulusevski made it 2-5 in the 72nd minute, set up by Dominic Solanke, Dominic Solanke made it 3-5 in the 83rd minute, set up by Brennan Johnson, and Díaz made it 3-6 in the 85th minute, set up by Mohamed Salah.

The chances backed that up: Liverpool created 6.03 expected goals (xG) from 24 shots to Tottenham's 1.20 from 9.

Match stats

9 Shots 24

5 Shots on Target 12

7 Corners 5

1 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

1.20 xG 5.20

1.20 Non-penalty xG 5.20

8 Deep Completions 14

Key events

Tottenham Liverpool

Kick-off

23’

Luis Díaz
Assist: Trent Alexander-Arnold

0-1

36’

Alexis Mac Allister

0-2

James Maddison

1-2

41’

45+1’

Dominik Szoboszlai
Assist: Mohamed Salah

1-3

Half-time1-3

54’

Mohamed Salah

1-4

61’

Mohamed Salah
Assist: Dominik Szoboszlai

1-5

Dejan Kulusevski
Assist: Dominic Solanke

2-5

72’

Dominic Solanke
Assist: Brennan Johnson

3-5

83’

85’

Luis Díaz
Assist: Mohamed Salah

3-6

Full-time3-6

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Tottenham

Lucas Bergvall

Liverpool

Dominik Szoboszlai
Cody Gakpo

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Tottenham 1.20 xGLiverpool 6.03 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Liverpool attacking Tottenham attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Fraser Forster	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Pedro Porro	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.11	2
Radu Dragusin	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Archie Gray	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Djed Spence	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Yves Bissouma	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Pape Sarr	MID	60			2	0.04	0.00	0
Dejan Kulusevski	MID	90	1		3	0.39	0.02	1
James Maddison	MID	60	1		1	0.05	0.03	1
Son Heung-Min	MID	84			1	0.03	0.00	0
Dominic Solanke	FWD	90	1	1	1	0.57	0.39	2
Lucas Bergvall	Sub	30			0	0.00	0.00	0
Brennan Johnson	Sub	30		1	1	0.11	0.57	1
Timo Werner	Sub	6			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Alisson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.50	1
Trent Alexander-Arnold	DEF	90		1	1	0.02	0.86	4
Virgil van Dijk	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Joseph Gomez	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Andrew Robertson	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.06	1
Ryan Gravenberch	MID	90			0	0.00	0.02	1
Alexis Mac Allister	MID	70	1		1	0.89	0.00	0
Mohamed Salah	MID	89	2	2	7	2.20	0.82	3
Dominik Szoboszlai	MID	90	1	1	6	1.92	0.51	1
Cody Gakpo	MID	70			1	0.06	0.16	2
Luis Díaz	FWD	89	2		7	0.87	0.19	2
Diogo Jota	Sub	20			1	0.06	0.05	1
Curtis Jones	Sub	20			0	0.00	0.00	0
Darwin Núñez	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0
Harvey Elliott	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Tottenham win 20% Avg odds 4.69

Draw 21% Avg odds 4.57

Liverpool win 59% Avg odds 1.64

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Tottenham W D L L W

Liverpool W W W D D

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Liverpool 4-2 Tottenham, 05 May 24 Next meeting: Liverpool 5-1 Tottenham, 27 Apr 25 All Tottenham vs Liverpool meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.