Salah shines, Liverpool ‘leaves’ Man City 8 points behind

Visiting the bottom team Southampton, Liverpool were predicted to have no difficulty in getting 3 points. That assessment seemed correct when coach Arne Slot’s team flooded Southampton’s field, creating terrible pressure and having consecutive dangerous opportunities.

In such a situation, Southampton could only stand firm until the 30th minute. Defender Flynn Downes (Southampton) panicked and cleared the ball to Dominik Szoboszlai’s position. And the Liverpool midfielder did not miss the opportunity to make a beautiful curling shot, scoring the opening goal of the match.

In the following minutes, Liverpool continued to pressure Southampton. Although they did not have much possession of the ball and had very few attacking situations, Southampton unexpectedly found an equalizer.

In the 56th minute, Southampton was awarded a penalty after Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) fouled Tyler Dibling to prevent a into the penalty area.

On the 11m mark, Adam Armstrong failed to goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher but he managed to score the equalizer. The surprise did not stop there, in the 56th minute, Mateus Fernandes made a perfect shot in the penalty area, scoring to raise the score to 2-1 for Southampton.

However, Southampton could not defend the victory when Liverpool star Mohamed Salah was so excellent. In the 65th minute, from a long pass from his teammate, Salah escaped very quickly, touched the ball before the Southampton goalkeeper could come out, and scored the equalizer 2-2.

In the 83rd minute, Salah coolly executed the 11m, scoring the winning goal 3-2 for Liverpool.

With this result, Liverpool continued to lead the Premier League rankings with 31 points, 8 points more than the 2nd ranked team, Man City.