Darren Randolph recovers after howler

Liverpool 2 West Ham 2: As Darren Randolph can testify, a goalkeeper’s life can be a rollercoaster ride. One moment you are sitting on the sidelines, wondering when your chance will come; the next, you find yourself in the spotlight, and perhaps wishing you were not.

Randolph spent a large chunk of 2016 on West Ham’s bench, yet still made it to Euro 2016 as the Republic of Ireland’s first-choice keeper and, against the odds, helped them to the knockout stages.

He has had to wait patiently for chances at club level throughout his season-and-a-half with West Ham, but has finally been given regular Premier League matches following Adrian’s loss of form. Randolph needs to grab his chance. What he did not need was the kind of error that gave a panicky Liverpool side a way back into a match that was sliding away from them.