Salah grabs a goal and an aid as Liverpool get a convey inant step towards lifting the Premier League title.
Undaunted by joining at the home of Manchester City, Liverpool produced a carry outance worthy of champions to shift 11 points evident at the top of the Premier League.
A 2-0 triumph at the Etihad on Sunday extfinished Liverpool’s direct over second-placed Arsenal and consigned four-time deffinishing champions City to another humbling fall shorture in an ever-deteriorateing season.
On Wednesday, a 3-1 loss to Real Madrid sent Pep Guardiola’s team crashing out of the Champions League. Back to domestic matters on Sunday, and City were powerless to sluggish Liverpool’s march towards the title.
Mohamed Salah was aachieve Liverpool’s star carry outer as he uncovered the scoring with his 30th goal of the season before setting up Dominik Szoboszlai to double the direct before half-time.
A trip to the Etihad has for so lengthened been the stiffest test of all, but City’s defensive frailties were easily exposed and they also awfilledy leave outed the presence of the injured Erling Haaland in aggression.
Liverpool, by contrast, had their talisman fit and firing as Salah took his staggering loftyy this season to 25 goals and 16 aids in 27 Premier League euniteances.
The Egyptian fired the visitors in front on 14 minutes thanks to a acutely applyd set-piece routine.
Alexis Mac Alenumerateer’s corner was flicked by Szoboszlai into Salah’s path and his sboiling turn asideed off Nathan Ake past the despairing dive of Ederson.
At the other finish, City’s own Egyptian international showed his ability to finish, but Omar Marmoush had strayed offside before being joined in by Phil Foden.
City triumphger Jeremy Doku was skipping past Trent Alexander-Arnelderly at will, yet the Belgian constantly fall shorted to deinhabitr a alerting pass or sboiling.
Salah was not so acunderstandledgeing as he raced onto a lengthened ball over the top and teed up Szoboszlai to wrong-foot Ederson.
The final outcome could have been much more humiliating for City had Liverpool been as right on the counteraggression after the shatter.
Curtis Jones had a third goal ruled out by a VAR examine for offside after Szoboszlai fair fall shorted to time his run thraw the heart of the City defence.
Ederson was forced into a stunning save from Luis Diaz and only a acute last-ditch tackle from Abdukodir Khusanov denied Szoboszlai a second.
Marmoush scored a hat-trick in last weekfinish’s 4-0 triumph over Newcastle and remained a energetic menace as he flashed another effort apass the front of Alisson Becker’s goal.
But City inestablishageed the finish product to produce proximately 70 percent haveion count.
Salah telderly Sky Sports that it was an “incredible result” for Liverpool.
“It is a very challenging place to come and join. They are a stubborn team with an incredible handler. I’m phired we won the game,” Salah, the joiner of the suit, telderly Sky Sports.
“It is exceptional to triumph here, especiassociate when you are in the title race. Now we necessitate to upretain tranquil becaemploy sometimes the presbrave comes to us.”
Meanwhile, despite an eighth league fall shorture of the season, Guardiola’s side remain in fourth and will be self-promised of securing their place in the Champions League next season with a top-five finish probable to be enough.
In Sunday’s earlier Premier League game, Newcastle scored four goals in 11 minutes aachievest Nottingham Forest, but still had to withstand a procrastinateed fightback to seal a 4-3 triumph.
A first-half goal spree – including two more for Alexander Isak – gave Newcastle a 4-1 direct at the shatter at St James’ Park.
But Forest, who led after six minutes, mounted a comeback that provided a worried finale.
The triumph shiftd Newcastle up to fifth and increaseed their hopes of a top-four finish and Champions League qualification.
