But the day belonged to Carroll, who celebrated wildly after scoring a goal against the club who let him leave just 18 months after signing him for £35million.
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That brought Stokes to the crease and, after negotiating the hat-trick ball, lost Root moments after posting another half-century. In all Stokes and Bairstow scored 49 from the fi rst five overs with the new cherry to regain the initiative for their side.
But he was even more annoyed with his side’s defending nine minutes after the break, when Mark Noble’s floated cross was powerfully dispatched by Carroll against his former club.
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Liverpool were hugely disappointing and, with just one shot on target all game, rarely looked capable of getting back into the match after Antonio fired the hosts ahead. “But the first goal was not Carroll”, he mused.
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But there was no doubt about his second of the season as the winger thumped in a close-range header from Enner Valencia’s cross after 10 minutes.
West Ham moved up to fifth in the table, two points above Liverpool whose frailties were exposed again at Upton Park.
Yet Liverpool could still have snatched something from the game, as Emre Can hit the crossbar at the end of the first half and Lucas had a header cleared off the line towards the end of the second.
Five minutes after the restart, Philippe Coutinho’s excellent pass set Alberto Moreno free on the left and his low cross found Benteke, only for the striker to side-foot wide.
Carroll could have piled on the misery with another header from Cresswell’s cross but Mignolet made a fine save. “That’s what makes me angry today because you saw in each situation when we started playing fighting football, we had better moments but we scored no goals in this game”, conceded the German manager before adding, “It’s our responsibility and it’s not a day for being disappointed, only a day for being angry about ourselves – and that’s what we are”. We had a few bad luck in a few situations but that’s not what I want to see. You have to be there in the decisive moments. We always had the ball, we could have made much more chances but we didn’t. We could have come back but we didn’t. Who wants to see 95 percent? – that’s what we have to do. You can’t win a game with 90 per cent. You need more than we did today. We didn’t score and we lost two nil.
“I was a defender, I enjoyed it. It’s a nice part of the game, you get dirty after, it’s not a problem, you don’t have to wash your clothes yourself”.
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“We defended well because you have to”. And then, and only then, he will become a great asset for us, and it is up to him. “We’ll try to do our best in the next game – that’s Stoke so we’ll focus on that”. We are responsible for the result.
