West Brom vs. Liverpool: Score, Reaction from 2016 Premier League Game

Liverpool failed to qualify for next season’s UEFA Europa League after ending their Premier League campaign with a 1-1 draw against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns to finish eighth.

Salomon Rondon opened the scoring for the Baggies on Sunday, before Jordon Ibe produced a thrilling equaliser for a much-changed Liverpool side.

The Reds’ remaining hope of playing European football next season rests on beating Sevilla in the Europa League final on Wednesday, which would secure UEFA Champions League qualification. Should they fail, they now know they will go without European competition next term.

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp kept one eye on that Europa League final by refreshing the ranks. Ibe, Brad Smith, Cameron Brannagan, Sheyi Ojo and goalkeeper Adam Bogdan were some of the changes:

The starting XI and substitutes’ bench for today’s meeting with @WBAFCOffficial pic.twitter.com/XhP7XrgB7m

— Liverpool FC (@LFC) May 15, 2016

The Baggies handed 17-year-old forward Jonathan Leko a start up front alongside Rondon:

#WBA team v @LFC: Foster; Olsson, Yacob, Evans, Gardner, McClean, McAuley, Fletcher, Dawson, Rondon, Lekohttps://t.co/Z2sqqtljAi

— West Bromwich Albion (@WBAFCofficial) May 15, 2016

Notably, skipper Jordan Henderson and striker Danny Ings were both fit enough for the bench after respective injury woes.

Precocious youngster Leko was at the heart of things for West Brom’s …

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