Liverpool continued their excellent results this season, and succeeded in achieving an important victory over Manchester City 2-0 at Anfield in the English Premier League.
Perhaps the first star of this summit was Mohamed Salah, after he did almost everything in the face of Pep Guardiola’s battalion.
The advantage was clear for Liverpool from the first moments with a barrage of wasted opportunities, until Salah passed a more than wonderful ball to Cody Gakpo, through which the Dutchman gave the Reds the first goal in the 22nd minute.
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The series of wasted opportunities continued for Liverpool after that amid a great absence from Manchester City, and Salah himself was one of those who wasted easy opportunities after he wasted a one-on-one in a very strange way in the second half.
But the “Egyptian King” did not give up, and was eventually able to score the second goal and decide the match for Liverpool from a penalty kick in the 78th minute.
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The 31-year-old was confident and successfully took the kick despite missing another in the last Real Madrid match, unlike Kylian Mbappe who refused to take it against Getafe today after also missing a penalty kick in the Reds’ match against the Royal Club.
By creating a goal and scoring another, this was the 36th time in Salah’s career that he scored and scored in one match in the Premier League, equaling the record set by Wayne Rooney.
Salah raised his goal tally in the Premier League to 11 goals, one goal away from the current top scorer Erling Haaland.
In general, the Egyptian contributed 24 goals in 19 matches in all competitions this season with Liverpool, with 13 goals scored and 11 assists.
With Liverpool’s win, Manchester City are winless in their last 7 matches in all competitions, having lost 6 matches and their best performance was a 3-3 draw with Feyenoord in the Champions League last week.
The gap between Liverpool and Manchester City has reached 11 points in favour of the Reds, who are at the top of the Premier League, 9 points ahead of their closest pursuers, Arsenal and Chelsea.
