{"id":71853,"date":"2025-08-16T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71853\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:11:08","slug":"chiesa-and-salah-strike-late-to-earn-liverpool-anfield-victory-over-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71853\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiesa and Salah strike late to earn Liverpool Anfield victory over Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds opened up their Premier League campaign in dramatic fashion at Anfield, netting in minutes 88 and 90+4 to earn three points.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Ekitike had earlier struck on his league debut to break the deadlock, before Cody Gakpo doubled the advantage in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Antoine Semenyo, however, found the target twice to haul the Cherries back onto level terms, though the late efforts of Chiesa and Salah earned Arne Slot&#8217;s side a winning start to 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Team<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Mac Allister started for the Reds in the only change from the FA Community Shield outing last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Gomez returned among the substitutes, while Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz made their maiden league appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez (Robertson, 60), Wirtz (Chiesa, 82), Szoboszlai, Mac Allister (Jones, 72), Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike (Gomez, 72), Frimpong (Endo, 60).<\/p>\n<p>Unused subs: Mamardashvili, Elliott, Nyoni, Ngumoha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds opened up their Premier League campaign in dramatic fashion at Anfield, netting in minutes 88 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[13514,64,63,13515,596,13503,13510,13505,13516,13518,13517,7886,13509,13508,13504,13513,13506,13511,85,13507,13512],"class_list":["post-71853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-alisson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-firmino","tag-football","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}