Liverpool cruised to a 6-3 win vs Tottenham of their newest Premier League fixture, on Sunday. The Reds took the lead through Luis Diaz within the Twenty third-minute, after which Alexis Mac Allister made it 2-0 within the Thirty sixth-minute. James Maddison responded for Tottenham within the Forty first-minute, however Dominik Szoboszlai had different plans and made it 3-1 simply earlier than half-time.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring their fifth purpose vs Tottenham.(Motion Pictures through Reuters)
With Liverpool in whole management, the second-half noticed 4 objectives, however Tottenham did not degree proceedings. Mohamed Salah made it 4-1 within the 54th-minute after which obtained his brace couple of minutes later. Dejan Kulusevski started the Tottenham comeback within the 72nd-minute, and Dominic Solanke added one other 11 minutes later, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient as Liverpool sealed their win.
In what might be Salah’s closing season at Liverpool, his two objectives and two assists noticed him turn out to be the primary participant to achieve double figures for each classes earlier than Christmas in a Premier League season. Salah now has 15 objectives this season and 11 assists. He’s main within the Golden Boot race, forward of his closest rival Erling Haaland, who has bagged 13 objectives.
Commenting on his achievement, Salah stated, “I didn’t think about it before the game, to be fair.”
“But it’s something that makes me happy and proud. I just keep working hard,” he added.
In the meantime, Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot praised his aspect for the win. Talking after the match, he stated, “Until 60-65 minutes [in] I really, really, really enjoyed what I saw. But then you also saw that, no matter how much quality players have, they think they don’t have to run anymore.”
“In this league, especially against Tottenham because they are so good with the ball as well, they immediately start to create. And that’s what they did, and they scored two goals. I was happy that the sixth one went in, to be fair,” he added.
Liverpool are on high of the Premier League desk earlier than Christmas, and have registered 39 factors in 16 matches, forward of second-placed Chelsea, who’ve bagged 35 in 17 fixtures.