(min:) A huge miss by Firmino! Alexander-Arnold whips a cross in from the right, teeing up the Brazilian for a tap-in. But the ball’s traveling at speed and he shanks it wide and high. Could the miss cost Liverpool ? That was awful.
min: That’s Keita’s last contribution. He’s replaced by Milner. Meanwhile Norwich make a double change, throwing on Buendia and Drmic in place of Rupp and Tettey.
min : … Henderson flashes at fresh air by the near post. Cantwell tries to make off down the left, and is clattered from behind by Keita, who is booked for his trouble.
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min: Salah miscontrols yards out. No matter: McLean blooters the loose ball behind for a corner. From which …
min: Salah and Alexander-Arnold take turns to busy themselves down the right, but neither player manages to produce anything significant. The away fans making plenty of noise now, nevertheless.
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Henderson creams a long ball down the inside-left channel. Mane brings it down, spins, and slams a wonderful shot into the bottom left. There’s a quick VAR check, as Mane had placed a hand on Zimmerman’s back as he turned, but it’s never going to be disallowed.
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min: Liverpool’s play is getting a little frantic. Passes not quite sticking. And then, all of a sudden …
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min: … it’s an easy take for Alisson. Liverpool try to break upfield, but Norwich are soon coming straight back at them through Lewis, who goes on a glory run down the left. He’s eventually stopped by Henderson, tracking back, but for a second Liverpool were exposed there. After a long period under pressure, Norwich have the scent now!
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min: Suddenly Norwich have their tails up, and in the next phase of play, a corner’s won down the right. One corner leads to another, and …
min: Cantwell tears down the left. He rolls the ball across the face of the box. Tettey lets it run across him. He looks as though he’s taken it too far wide, but then unleashes a shot that caroms off the base of the right-hand post and away! Norwich so close to taking a shock lead! Again!
min: Mane releases Salah down the inside left with a sensational diagonal pass. Salah pulls the ball across the face of goal, but nobody else in red is switched on, allowing Zimmerman to clear.
min: Hanley slips over with the ball at his feet, just outside the Norwich box. Henderson clumsily falls on him, and suddenly a promising chance for Liverpool is a free kick for Norwich. Hanley breathes a sigh of relief.
min: Gomez sprays a long pass down the left. Robertson cushions a header into the path of Mane, who threatens to burst clear into the box. But Aarons stands firm, Krul gathers, and the ball had hit Mane’s arm anyway.
min: Liverpool’s corner is no good, though Van Dijk fumes as he’s tugged over by a combination of Pukki and Rupp . There’s not enough in the tussle, and play goes on.
min: Robertson whistles another cross in from the left flank. Aarons sticks out a leg to intercept, with Mane lurking, and nearly deflects the ball into his own net. Instead, it’ll be a corner.
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Liverpool keep Norwich pinned in their own box. Crosses flying in from both sides. Salah has the best chance, but his attempt to sidefoot home a Robertson cross into the bottom right is blocked.
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min: Robertson crosses from the left. The ball is nowhere near Salah and that’s easy pickings for Krul.
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min: Norwich take their sweet time over a throw in the midfield. Liverpool
look a little agitated, which is of course the point.
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min: Klopp has seen enough. Oxlade-Chamberlain and Wijnaldum are replaced by Mane and Fabinho.
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min: Salah turns on a sixpence inside the Norwich area and blasts towards the bottom left. Krul parries sensationally. The ball sits up for Keita, who must score, but doesn’t connect properly, allowing Krul to parry again and smother. It’s one of those: a bad miss but a stunning save nonetheless. Both sides have had one now.
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min: Ah, there he is! Salah tees him up on the edge of the D. He sends a rising shot towards Krul, who is forced to tip over the bar. Corner, from which Van Dijk sends an uncharacteristically tame header into the arms of Krul.
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min: Space for Keita down the right. He’s got options in the box, but prods a very uncertain ball into the area that’s easily intercepted and cleared. So much for the earlier brief sighting of Leipzig Naby.
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min: Keita romps down the middle before feeding Robertson out on the left. Robertson rolls the ball through the six-yard box, but Firmino can’t get anywhere near it at the front stick. The ball trundles harmlessly out for a goal kick. This is going swimmingly for Norwich, who are keeping the runaway league leaders at arm’s length.
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min: Henderson’s poor pass in midfield allows Pukki to tear off down the left. The ball’s worked towards the other flank, Cantwell getting past Robertson and lashing a shot into the side netting. Alisson had it covered. Robertson took a wee tug on Cantwell’s shirt there; had the Norwich player decided to go down, the referee would have had a serious decision to make.
min: Norwich haven’t had a sniff since the restart. But Liverpool are yet to parlay their dominance into serious work for Krul.
() Georginio Wijnaldum of Liverpool beats Kenny McLean of Norwich City to a header. Photograph: Tom Jenkins / The Guardian Updated (at 1.) EST pm EST : 48 min: Firmino should make off Down the right but McLean sticks to his back and eventually wrestles the ball away from him. The leaders have come out looking a little sharper, Jurgen Klopp presumably having made some trenchant observations during the break. (1) pm EST min: Liverpool are immediately on the front foot. Robertson drives down the left but can’t quite break clear. Then Henderson chips one into the box from the right but Aarons wins an aerial battle with Firmino and clears the danger. (1.) (PM) (EST) : Norwich get the second half underway. There have been no half-time changes. (1.) (PM EST ) : Half-time entertainment. The current scoreline is good news for second-placed Manchester City … and boy do they need some good news right now. Here’s David Conn’s latest take on City’s two-year Champions League ban. 1 . (PM EST) : HALF TIME: Norwich City 0-0 Liverpool There’s just enough time for Liverpool to earn their third corner of the match, and waste it. And that’s the half-time whistle. Norwich will be very happy with their performance, though they should be leading. Rupp’s indecision and Alisson’s brilliance combining to keep the scores level. (min 1: The corner should be claimed by Krul at the far post. But the keeper thinks Zimmerman will deal, and vice versa. Eventually Salah nips in, but can’t find anyone in the center with a weakly hit cross. Norwich get away with one. : 37 
min: Oxlade -Chamberlain and Robertson combine to win a corner on the left. One last chance for Liverpool to take a lead into half-time, perhaps?
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min: Lewis nearly lets Firmino in with a poor clearing header, but just as it looks like the Brazilian will burst clear into the box, the Norwich sub fights back and clears up his own mess. An entertaining tussle.
Updated (at 1.) EST EST min: Henderson rolls a pass down the right channel for Firmino, who turns Hanley with ease. Hanley climbs all over his back to stop him bursting into the box, and takes the booking. This is still a free kick in a dangerous position, though, just to the side of the box, 44 yards out. (1.) (pm) (EST) :
(min: Alexander-Arnold prepares to take the corner, but is held up awhile as the referee comes across to check he’s placed the ball in the quadrant. Eventually we’re good to go. The corner is blocked, and ends up back at the feet of Alexander-Arnold, who yanks a wild shot wide left from the edge of the box.
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(min: That near miss has lit a fire under Liverpool . Robertson, Keita and Salah take turns to drive at the Norwich back line. Salah’s shot, an attempted curler towards the top left, is deflected out for a corner.
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