Liverpool 0 West Brom 0 - Report and pictures

This side have now gone 16 games without a win in all competitions, the longest run of consecutive matches without victory in nearly 140 years of Albion existing.

But even though they didn't win at Anfield, and still haven't scored under Alan Pardew three games into his reign, they will take heart from this performance.

Disciplined without the ball, the Baggies frustrated their star-studded hosts, but also got forward in numbers when the game allowed it.

They were unusually tidy in possession, particularly in tight spaces, and even though Liverpool had the best chances and had a Dominic Solanke goal ruled out for handball eight minutes from time, Albion also went close in bursts and hit the bar in the first half through Hal Robson-Kanu.

Importantly, they take a point back down the M6 that lifts them back out of the bottom three and gives them confidence going into the busy festive period.

Pardew made two changes, giving James McClean a place on the left wing instead of Sam Field, and handing Grzegorz Krychowiak his first start since Tony Pulis was sacked.

He's still having to deal with injuries to his best attacking players, but Klopp has no such problem.

The Reds boss picked Coutinho, Salah, Firmino and Mane, or the fab four as they are being called up here in Beatle-land, after fielding criticism for rotating his squad in the Merseyside derby on Sunday.

The hosts quickly grabbed a hold of the game, with those four pushed up on Albion's back line.

They moved the ball around slowly, almost lazily at times, before snapping into action and attempting to find one of the runs made by their forward men. More often than not it was Salah.

Ahmed Hegazi's close friend has scored more Premier League goals this season than the whole Baggies team combined, and unsurprisingly, he was the brightest spark early on.

He was running off the last man dangerously, and it was his tuned cross 17 minutes in which caught Allan Nyom dawdling and gave Firmino the first chance of the game, but the Brazilian grazed Ben Foster's far post from a narrow angle when he really should have done better.

Krychowiak showed a couple of promising early touches, and it was his quick-thinking at a free-kick which sent Allan Nyom down the right wing and allowed him to cross to Claudio Yacob, but the Argentinian's header went over.

And the Baggies, who were disciplined off the ball and were starting to frustrate their hosts, began to grow in confidence.

They manufactured a chance for Jake Livermore thanks to some expert hold-up play from Salomon Rondon and a neat overlap from Kieran Gibbs, before Hal Robson-Kanu hit the bar with a dipping, curling effort from 30 yards that had Loris Karius back-peddling furiously.

But as the Baggies began to tentatively emerge from their shell, they left more gaps in behind and consequently, Liverpool's devastating counter-attackers looked more dangerous.

Salah nearly latched onto a Trent Alexander-Arnold cross, and then he and Firmino both had shots blocked in the box.

But on the whole, Klopp's men struggled to get going in a limp first half by their standards and the Baggies went into half-time happy with how their game plan was working.

And it was the visitors who started the second period on top. Krychowiak nearly caught Karius out with a swirling free-kick from the byline that almost dipped in under his bar and the Liverpool keeper had to be alive to the resulting corner, which Yacob diverted goalwards with a header.

A minute later, Livermore and Nyom worked a short-corner well and found Hegazi at the back post five yards out, but the big Egyptian couldn't keep his header down.

But Liverpool woke up after that. First of all, Mane went close after latching on to a Firmino pull-back and then, just before the hour mark, Salah missed a glorious chance to break the deadlock when Alexander-Arnold's cross grazed Krychowiak's head and fell to him at the back post.

Fortunately for Albion, the red-hot forward glanced his downwards header wide of the far post. The Baggies were also lucky Firmino failed to control a cross six yards out with the goal gaping at him just moments later. But you need some luck if you're going to survive at Anfield.

Foster had certainly completed his pre-match rituals correctly, because the Baggies keeper was given a huge let-off shortly after when he punched a cross straight up into the air and spilled it at the second time of asking at the feet of Georgino Wijnaldum five yards out. But thanks to Krychowiak's strong-arm shepherding, the Liverpool man couldn't get any meaningful contact.

The natives were beginning to grow restless, and Klopp made a double change in an effort to pick the lock. One of his substitutes, Dominic Solanke, had the ball in the net eight minutes from time when another fresh face, Joe Gomez, picked him out with a cross.

The Kop erupted but their celebrations were short-lived because referee Paul Tierney disallowed it for a Solanke handball after the ball bounced up and brushed his arm.

A minute later Hegazi, who was brilliant all evening, cleared an effort off the line after Foster had made a tremendous smothering save following an error from Nyom.

It was enough to see the game out, and give the Baggies a well-earned point that could maybe start the turnaround they so desperately need.

MAN OF THE MATCH

Ahmed Hegazi - They came to see one Egyptian, but Hegazi outshone his countryman Mohamed Salah with a towering performance at the back.

POSITION IN THE TABLE

17th, with 14 points from 17 games.

TEAMS

Liverpool (4-3-3): Karius, Alexander-Arnold (Gomez 80), Lovren, Klavan, Robertson, Can, Wijnaldum (Oxlade-Chamberlain 75), Coutinho (c), Salah, Firmino, Mane (Solanke 75). Unused subs: Mignolet, Milner, Henderson, Ings.

Albion (4-5-1): Foster, Nyom, Hegazi, Evans (c), Gibbs, Robson-Kanu (Rodriguez 71), Livermore, Yacob, Krychowiak (Brunt 79), McClean, Rondon. Unused subs: Myhill, McAuley, Ferguson, Burke, Field.

Referee: Paul Tierney