00:30A song that surges from the stands to the sky.
00:37Diogo Jota, much more than a scorer of goals.
00:42He was a spark on and off the pitch.
00:45Played with poetry in his boots, kindness in his heart.
00:49And you can feel him here in the colours, in the crowd,
00:53in the quiet moments between the chants.
01:00Thank you very much.
01:30.
01:37Well, that chip looks quite beautifully done.
01:40How it should be.
01:43I mentioned respect earlier on, it was absolute.
01:50Sarah, last season's Premier League golden boot winner.
01:53Strikes for the first time this campaign.
01:56And Jordan Piktovic makes his first save as a Bournemouth goalkeeper of the Premier League.
02:06Well, a lot of talk about integration for the new guys that have arrived on the team, but for the likes of the superstars.
02:21Canate.
02:24Canate.
02:25Canate.
02:26Canate...
02:27Canate breathe again.
02:28Maybe breathes some life into that attack.
02:29Oh, it almost fell for Iketuka.
02:33He's appealing that it's a handball.
02:35But the free kick goes the other way.
02:42Marcus Sireci finding himself a center of attention here.
02:46First question, Chip, was there a handball for the Argentinian defender?
02:51Yeah.
02:52I mean, it looks as if he's barely just touched it,
02:55but he certainly produced a deliberate attempt.
02:58The token point here is a handball for Marcus Sireci.
03:07He's in, and he scores!
03:11Welcome to the Premier League!
03:14Welcome to Anfield!
03:19Hugo Eketike!
03:23I like this fellow's attitude and I like his application,
03:27his effort.
03:28And once he comes inside here, yes,
03:30he gets a lucky break when it deflects back off Sinesse
03:34and into the path of Eketike.
03:36But he went on to be super cool once he got in position.
03:41And the keeper was guessing one way and he just took it the other.
03:45But, yeah, Sinesse can consider himself a little unfortunate
03:48that that ricocheted for the striker
03:51and not away from goal.
03:53Liverpool, with all their effort and persistence,
03:58have finally got some reward.
04:00Good catch.
04:02Dike to Cody Gakpo,
04:07wants to weave into this sort of position.
04:092-0 to Liverpool!
04:11After Mo Salah,
04:16he was Liverpool's second-tier scorer last season.
04:20Cody Gakpo, with an opening night goal for Liverpool,
04:25to double the lead.
04:26I thought for a moment that he was going to overrun this.
04:35And it's going to go as an assist as well to Eketike,
04:39but it wasn't well defended at all by Bournemouth.
04:43They just kind of let him float inside.
04:46And once he was able to just take it past Tabernier,
04:50I think the keeper was always vulnerable.
04:53Shella.
04:56Shella.
04:57Soboslai thought about returning it to Shella.
05:01Give it to Vietz instead!
05:03It was instinctive.
05:04He went for accuracy rather than power,
05:07and he very nearly tucked it into that bottom corner.
05:10Yeah, and he hit it first time.
05:12You know, as it arrived,
05:13he didn't take a touch to set it up to go at it differently.
05:17Rewarding them for now,
05:19but Bournemouth full of hard running themselves.
05:21This is Brooks.
05:23First time delivery for Semenyo!
05:252-1 at Anfield!
05:28Bournemouth are right back in it!
05:32They lost some big names this summer,
05:34but Iriola was determined to hold on to Antoine Semenyo,
05:39who's just grabbed his first goal of the season,
05:44and this game is wide open again now.
05:46Oh, absolutely.
05:48I mean, you know,
05:49they were turnover titans as well last season.
05:52So often they did this sort of thing,
05:54and it's all quick.
05:55It's no messing about.
05:57Brooks is just happy to play it in.
05:59Semenyo has gone beyond.
06:01Robertson, who was a little slow in reacting,
06:04and as a result, he can't get there,
06:06and Alisson's just left alone, exposed.
06:09And Bournemouth, as you referred to earlier,
06:14are not going to go away.
06:16So what?
06:18Liverpool would love the insulation of another goal here.
06:21How about Traore disrupts Semenyo?
06:232-1-2.
06:24Plenty of support to his left.
06:26Semenyo, if he can see them in his peripheral vision.
06:29Semenyo!
06:322-2.
06:33Bournemouth refused to give up and get back on level terms.
06:38It's a second goal for Anton Semenyo.
06:41It's a tremor shock at Anfield on the opening night of the new Premier League season.
06:44Well, I think what we've witnessed is character.
07:00Nobody makes that movement towards the winger,
07:04even though he's going right through the middle of everything.
07:06And I mean, even Canate at the end has got his back to it.
07:09He just kind of drifts away.
07:11Go to the danger.
07:12Go and make the tackle.
07:13Van Dijk too.
07:15And in the end, he takes it absolutely beautifully.
07:18And on balance in this second half, it's been coming.
07:23There were other options.
07:27But Anton Semenyo only had eyes for goal.
07:31And what an important goal that is!
07:35Alisson.
07:39Sibyl Sly.
07:42Salas pulled in!
07:43Curtis Jones was close.
07:45Chiesa!
07:47Federico Chiesa!
07:52Federico Chiesa!
07:54What a time to score his first ever Premier League goal!
08:05After the set piece, look how many red shirts actually stayed in the vicinity.
08:10And once this comes across and gets knocked out,
08:14I mean it's just poorly cleared by Bournemouth in the first place.
08:18Just needed something stronger.
08:20But this header, I think it's a mix-up, isn't it?
08:24Between Diakite and Winterburn,
08:27and it falls beautifully to Chiesa who tucks it away on the volley.
08:34Hooked on by Ender.
08:36Salas shot the chase here.
08:38What pace to get in ahead of Hill.
08:41Can Mo Salas seal it?
08:43You bet he can!
08:45You bet he can!
08:54Liverpool, back on their perch since the end of last season,
09:00have no intention of toppling off it.
09:03Last season's Premier League golden boot winner continues his incredible run of scoring goals on the opening weekend of a Premier League campaign.
09:20It was a Diogo Jota tackle finish.
09:22It was, I mean, I think Salas should use his right foot more often.
09:28And again, I think Bournemouth could have defended it a bit better.
09:31And you know, once he came inside, I mean, he's picked that out absolutely beautifully to deceive Petrovic and find the far corner.
09:41It's wonderful skill.
09:42Well that's surely it now.
09:51Bournemouth aren't coming back from this despite their brave resistance in the second half.
09:56Final whistle and Anfield and Arna Slot's team pick up where they left off.
10:09The crown is polished.
10:11The first jewel set.
10:14Liverpool's title defence begins with a red hot roar.
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