Liverpool assistant boss sammy Lee is sent to the stands, in all fairness both of those could well have been penalties but Lee's protests have earned him a reprimand.

Again Liverpool appeal for a penalty for hand ball, this one definitely was a hand ball from Assou-Ekotto and Spurs are let off.

Voronin is barged off the ball in the box and he goes down, the Liverpool bench appeal but no penalty is awarded.

Gerrard nearly plays in Torres but Ledley King, and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he meant it, manages to divert the ball into Gomes' arms with his chest.

Good play from Johnson, who has had a decent game for Liverpool, but his cross just evades Torres.

Great work from Mascherano as he denies Lennon the chance to break.

Liverpool are enjoying the majority of possesion but Spurs are defending well and restricting their chances.

The corner comes to nothing as Huddlestone clears for Spurs.

This is Spanish centre-half Ayala's league debut for Liverpool, he hasn't got long to impress but if Skrtel turns out to have broken something we may see a bit more of the youngster in the coming games.

Gerrard tries to place a shot past Gomes from the left but the Brazilian keeper picks the ball out of the air, I don't often criticise Gerrard but he should have crossed towards Torres there.

Modric fires in a shot from distance but his effort is blocked.

This is a very open game now, both teams have had half chances and Liverpool have a free kick in a good place after Johnson goes down.

That was a lucky-break for Liverpool in some ways as Spurs had controlled the game before that but it's game on now.

Palacios takes a shot from range and Reina does well to tip it over, Modric takes the resulting corner but Liverpool clear.

Gerrard's shot produces a good save from Gomes but referee Phil Dowd awards Spurs a goal kick, wrong decision and to be honest I don't see how he could have missed that!

Great run from Aaaron Lennon, he leaves Carragher and Mascherano behind easily but is denied his moment of glory by a fantastic challenge from Lucas.

Liverpool win the first corner of the second half, decent delivery from Gerrard but King clears.

Spurs miss another great chance after Assou-Ekotto played a great ball into the box, it should have been a goal but Keane fired high and wide - he's missed three decent chances now, perhaps it just insn't his day.

Gerrard, Babel and Torres link up well but Babel's eventual cross is caught easily by Gomes, very poor ball from the Dutchman.

Despite the lack of goals this has been a pretty lively and decent game so far, Steven Gerrard has just seen a shot blocked by Huddlestone and Spurs clear.

Again Keane is denied by Reina when he should have scored, Modric takes the resulting cvorner and Defoe heads just wide as Spurs start to apply the pressure.

Huddlestone shoots wide but it wasn't a bad effort, Mascherano is back on the pitch.

Great Chance for Spurs! Should have been 1-0 after great work from Modric to set up Keane, he has the goal at his mercy and Pepe Reina produced an outstanding save to deny Keane a goal.

Steven Gerrard unleashed a powerful shot from the egde of the box but it flies just wide of the left hand post but I think Gomes had it covered.

Great defending from Carragher, who apparently has 12 staples in his head after that clash of heads with Skrtel, he does just enough to put Jermaine Defoe off as he was lining up a shot.

Half chance for Spurs as Lennon has a go from range but his effort goes wide of the right post.

Spurs controlled possesion while Carragher and Skrtel were off the field but Liverpool defended well and both are now back on the pitch.

Jamie Carragher and Martin Skrtel have just banged into each other, Carragher looks like he might be ok to continue but Skrtel could be hurt, both have gone off for treatment and it looks like Liverpool will be down to nine men for a few minutes.

The away side are really starting to press now, Liverpool well in control and King has just made an important interception as the ball was heading straight for Torres' head right in front of the goal.

Liverpool win a corner which Gerrard takes, Ledley King missed the header to clear which nearly allowed Torres the chance to shoot but fortunately for King the Spanish striker was perhaps caught unawares by the Spurs' defenders mistake.

Ryan Babel had a great opportunity to get himself into a shooting position but he hesitates and lost the chance.

No messing around from Skrtel again, who has been Liverpool's best player so far, he just shields the ball from Defoe and allows it to run to Reina.

Modric delivered the corner and Assou-Ekotto nearly got on the end of it but Liverpool managed to get the ball clear eventually.

Spurs have started the brighter of the two teams, Aaron Lennon has just made a decent run down the wing which eventually resulted in a Spurs corner after Skrtel cleared.