History was made on Merseyside this afternoon as Slaven Bilic's class of 2015 finally managed to break West Ham's Anfield 52-year-old hoodoo.
Goals from Manuel Lanzini, Mark Noble and Diafra Sakho secured West Ham's first win at Anfield since 1963 when goals from a young Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters gave Ron Greenwood's side a well-deserved win.The home crowd, no doubt expecting their usual three points from this fixture were stunned into silence after just three minutes when Lanzini, making his Premier League debut scored the coolest goal you'll ever see, passing the ball into the net from eight yards out having been set up by Dimitri Payet.
And the Hammers were in dreamland just ahead of the half-hour mark when Mark Noble pounced on a loose ball to find the narrowest of gaps in which to place the ball between two defenders and Mignolet's despairing dive.
Statistics in Anfield since 1963....boommm💣💥💥💥💥😀 0-3!!Excellent work boys very proud of you💪👏👏👏 #COYI父
— Adrián San Miguel (@AdriSanMiguel) August 29, 2015A pair of red cards - one for each team, both harsh, one simply wrong - followed in the second half as Coutinho for Liverpool and Mark Noble for West Ham were both sent for an early bath by bungling referee Kevin Friend.
But West Ham were comfortable throughout the final stages and even managed to add a third goal via the left foot of Diafra Sakho in the second of seven added-on minutes.
At the other end Darren Randolph, who enjoyed a baptism of fire on his home debut for the Hammers last week against Bournemouth had relatively little to do as he joined that rare group of West Ham goalkeepers to have kept a clean sheet at Anfield.
At last: 52 years of hurt finally comes to an end
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