HALF TIME: Liverpool 0 Leeds United 0 - Solid Whites standing up to Red men

Leeds began brightly and squandered a fine chance to take the lead in the fourth minute when a raking pass from Stuart Dallas released Hadi Sacko whose low shot was saved by Simon Mignolet’s legs.

Kemar Roofe then tested Mignolet with a decent low drive from 25 yards some six minutes later but Liverpool then immediately created their first chance with Marco Silvestri producing a decent diving save to keep a volleyed effort from Georginio Wijnaldum out of the top right corner.

A 16th-minute effort from Ragnar Klavan then nearly hit the corner flag and Leeds continued to impress ,with a 25th-minute corner causing a scramble and finding Ronaldo Vieira whose low shot was blocked and clered.

But Leeds were then dealt a blow in the 27th minute when Eunan O’Kane picked up an injury and had to be substituted for Kalvin Phillips.

Phillips was immediately let off the hook six minutes later when his back pass to Kyle Bartley was intercepted by Emre Can whose poked attempt squirmed just wide of Silvestri’s post.

But Leeds continued to pose a threat and Kemar Roofe was wrongly flagged offside as Souleymane Doukara released the forward down the left wing.

A shot from Phillips then took a deflection to wrong-foot Mignolet but to the ‘keeper’s relief the ball trickled wide.

Leeds United: Silvestri, Berardi, Cooper, Bartley, Taylor, Vieira, O’Kane (Phillips 27), Sacko, Roofe, Dallas, Doukara. Subs not used: Green, Ayling, Grimes, Mowatt, Wood, Antonsson.

Liverpool: Mignolet, Moreno, Klavan, Lucas, Alexander-Arnold, Stewart, Ejaria, Wijnaldum, Can, Mane, Origi. Subs not used: Karius, Lovren, Clyne, Henderson, Milner, Woodburn, Grujic.

Referee: Andre Marriner.