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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Richard Garnett

Everybody loves Diaz but unusual Salah and Van Dijk verdicts emerge after Liverpool beat West Ham

Liverpool kept themselves hot on the heels of lead-leaders Manchester City on Saturday with a somewhat nervy 1-0 win at Anfield.

Sadio Mane grabbed the all important goal in the second half, after surviving a VAR check, to register his 12th Premier League goal of the season.

But it was new-boy Luis Diaz who supporters were impressed with the most, as is clear in your ECHO player ratings from the match.

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The Colombian received an average score of 8.3 from ECHO readers, with Trent Alexander-Arnold - who once again supplied the assist for the only goal - close behind with a rating of 8.2.

The pair were ranked head and shoulders above the rest, with Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and goal scorer Mane all receiving and average rating of 7.6 from readers.

Full Liverpool player ratings. as voted by you:

Luis Diaz - 8.3

Trent Alexander-Arnold - 8.2

Virgil van Dijk - 7.6

Alisson Becker - 7.6

Sadio Mane - 7.6

Andy Robertson - 7.5

Ibrahima Konate - 7.4

Naby Keita - 7.0

Fabinho - 7.0

Diogo Jota - 6.2

James Milner - 6.2

Mohamed Salah - 6.2

Curtis Jones 5.8

Chief Liverpool writer Ian Doyle was on ratings duty for the Liverpool ECHO yesterday and he appeared to be in pretty generous mood.

Luis Diaz managed to pickup up an impressive 9, while there were 8s for Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate and Van Dijk.

Adam Brown at ESPN agreed on the value of Alexander-Arnold, marking him as a 9 but was less impressed with Mohamed Salah, who received a 5.

Sean Walsh at 90mins was another reporter to go big on Trent, giving him a match best of 9/10, but took a very dim view of Van Dijk's performance, scoring him at a 3.

And it was a similar story over at whoscored.com who declared right-back Alexander Arnold the star performer, with a score of 8.7.

Diogo Jota was their lowest scoring on the day, with a rating of only 5.87.

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