40 minutes: Jackson fell off the ball and was holding his hip. He has had a busy international break, making two appearances for Senegal in Afcon qualifying. It looks like he hurt himself after falling while shooting a few minutes ago.

39 minutes: Caicedo is robbed by Nunez, who feeds Salah on the right. His ball at Gakpo’s feet puts him one-on-one with Adariaboyo, but the Chelsea defender holds up well this time.

38 minutes: Palmer misjudges a pass on Liverpool’s edge; he hasn’t had the best games so far. Chelsea come again and the difficult Sancho is denied by Alexander-Arnold, at the expense of a corner.

36 minutes: Gakpo plays a nice pass to Szoboszlai, who misses a decent chance into the gloves of Sanchez, causing Peter Drury to call DOMINIK Szoboszlai at a completely unnecessary volume.

“I just made the mistake of checking the dark parts of the internet, where everything is binary and there are no shades of grey, and there are Arsenal supporters who claim that Adarabioyo’s yellow and Saliba’s red are definitive proof that there is a PGMOL conspiracy against them.” writes Andy Flintoff (not that one).

I’ve never really understood how these referee conspiracies are supposed to work. If you have ever If a decision were to go your way, surely that would invalidate the entire theory?

34 minutes: Chelsea break through Caicedo, who plays a raking diagonal ball to Jackson. His shot from a tight angle is decent and perhaps hits the outside of the post, but Maresca is unhappy he didn’t look up and see Palmer coming in the middle.

No goal! They are almost paying for their vague thinking here, as Sánchez’s weak clearance results in another attack on Liverpool. Nunez taps through to Jones, who plays in Salah, whose low cross is turned in by Gakpo. Great stuff… but the flag is hanging, Salah just offside in the build-up.

31 minutes: Sánchez is quick off his line to get out from under Nunez’s feet, before Salah wins a corner. Chelsea just need to clear their heads here…

30 minutes: Jackson is shown a yellow card for protesting the decision while Salah waited for the penalty to be taken. There’s also an early change for Liverpool, with Diogo Jota – moving cautiously since that Tosin challenge – replaced by Darwin Núñez.

GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea (Salah pen 29′)

Penalty for Liverpool!

25 minutes: Liverpool go again, Colwill looks to foul Salah outside the area, and there’s another challenge in the area, but John Brooks waves away the appeal. Arne Slot is crazy enough to get a booking, but you could say that Salah has opted for that second challenge. But wait…

24 minutes: Chelsea break and Madueke’s cutback goes to Cole Palmer, whose quick shot is blocked. You would almost expect him to score from such a position…

23 minutes: At the other end, James gets into trouble and is picked off the ball by Gakpo. Jota has a run at the last man, but the referee calls a foul. James had a bit of luck there…

21 minutes: Another difficult deep cross from Reece James is headed behind by Alexander-Arnold; from the corner, Kelleher has to run away under pressure from Jackson, but then the offside flag is raised against Colwill.

20 minutes: The first murmur of frustration from the home fans when a pass goes wrong in the center circle. Liverpool fans are also urging their team to keep going; everyone is behind the ball while Chelsea is in possession.

19 minutes: Maresca appeals after Alexander-Arnold brings down Sancho in the area following a tangle of legs, but no further action is taken.

18 minutes: Sánchez almost gives Liverpool the lead as he tries to be too clever and the ball clatters off Gakpo. Luckily for Chelsea it bounces back in these gloves.

16 minutes: Enzo Maresca has won his first three away games in the Premier League and his team have had the best of a fairly quiet opening, apart from Tosin’s yellow card.

13 minutes: Chelsea move the ball smoothly through midfield again and Sancho plays in Gusto, whose cross is deflected backwards – but he gets the final touch, so it’s a Liverpool goal-kick.

11 minutes: A nice Sanchez-Sancho link here, as the Chelsea keeper plays a perfect long pass wide. The winger comes up and pulls the ball back to Gusto, who overcooks his cross.

9 minutes: A break in the match where we get a close-up of Kelleher, making his 50th Liverpool appearance and going without a hitch so far.

7 minutes: Adarabioyo is booked! Probably a fair call – Jota would have had more to do than Evanilson yesterday, with the ball heading towards the touchline and Gusto in pursuit. However, Tosin is now walking the proverbial tightrope.

6 minutes: Uh-oh… Salah launches a long ball and Jota is away, behind Tosin Adarabioyo, who is caught on the wrong side and wraps him over. It’s a similar incident to William Saliba’s red card last night…

5 minutes: Caicedo remains down for a moment holding his knee, but is able to continue for now. Diogo Jota almost breaks through Chelsea’s defense, but lets the ball just escape from under his feet.

4 minutes: After a twisting run from Jones, Salah’s long-range effort comes off Colwill’s hand – nothing given, even though Colwill was effectively outside the area.

2 minutes: We started at a leisurely pace, with Reece James’ curling cross headed away by Konate in both teams’ first attack.

Kick-off

First a minute of applause for Peter Cormack, a star midfielder for Bill Shankly’s Liverpool team, who recently passed away at the age of 78. Here is one of Cormack’s most famous goals: a header that won the Merseyside derby in 1972. RIP.

“You’ll Never Walk Alone” echoes through Anfield. How about Chris McCausland on Strictly, eh? Anyway, kick-off is coming…

“This should be a very entertaining match,” writes Mary Waltz. “On VAR. Bin it. Has it reduced the amount of controversy? No. Accept human weakness and return to human decisions.” I don’t think there’s any chance of VAR being thrown out; I still feel that in England the way civil servants use the system is largely to blame.

And Arne Slot: “It’s always the next game, it’s a tough game as Chelsea are doing well this season. That’s no surprise to me, they have a lot of good players, so it’s an interesting challenge.”

Here’s Enzo Maresca: “Reece was injured, now he is back, hopefully he can get minutes and get a bit fitter. “I know Romeo very well from City, it’s similar, he just needs games, but he’s back to help us.”

“Today’s match will not determine where we are, whether we win or not. We try to prepare as best as possible, get points and then we’ll see.”

Full-time: Wolves 1-2 Manchester City

Reece James captains Chelsea in his first appearance since May; he joins Malo Gusto at right back on the left and covers for the suspended Marc Cucurella. Wesley Fofana is also out after a fifth booking, with Tosin Adarabioyo in the field, while Roméo Lavia replaces Enzo Fernández in midfield.

Three changes for Liverpool, with Andy Robertson back for Tsimikas and Dominik Szoboszlai coming on for Alexis Mac Allister. That could mean that Curtis Jones will be back in midfield next to Ryan Gravenberch. Caoimhin Kelleher replaces the injured Alisson in goal.

As it stands, Liverpool will start the match at the top as after Arsenal lost at Bournemouth, Manchester City are at Molineux, where it is 1-1 with fifteen minutes to play. Follow that one with Daniel Harris:

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