How Liverpool routed West Ham 5-1 in Carabao Cup match to book place in semi-final

Publish date: 2024-05-29

David Moyes spoke to the BBC after the 5-1 loss: "We are playing against a top team tonight and whatever you say about us tonight, their performance was very good and they were fast and quick and all over us, right from the first minute. We never got a chance to breathe."

On resting his regular starters: "You just can't play them every game. What the scheduling is like. I think only us and Liverpool and Man City and then we have had the shortest recovery period of all the teams in the Premier League. All of those things play their part. That's not an excuse, you've asked me the question and I've answered it. Also, I have got to give players a chance. We have been questioned a bit about not rotating enough and we tried to give a few a game tonight and it's not because of them, it's because of how well Liverpool played.

"The worst part of the game was when we conceded the second goal. The most positive thing was that we went in at half-time 1-0 down. We kept ourselves in a cup tie and we gave away a bad second goal. We were just about to bring Paqueta on, who made a big difference when he came on the pitch as well and then we got the goal back at 3-1. It was going to need us to get a goal from a free kick or something and we didn't have it and we gave away some poor goals."

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