Liverpool vs Brentford Highlights: Premier League Highlights: Mo Salah’s record-breaking goal took Liverpool to a 1-0 win over Brentford at Anfield on Saturday. Salah was the only goal scorer in the game as his tap-in early in the first half took hosts to a 1-0 lead at half-time. With that goal, Mo Salah becomes the only player Liverpool history to score in 9 consecutive games at Anfield. It was also Salah’s his 100th goal at Anfield. While Brentford created good chances in the second half, they failed to convert it into a goal and were left frustrated in front of roaring Liverpool fans. Follow Premier League 2022-23 LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
Their sixth league win in a row left the Merseysiders in fifth spot on 62 points, one behind fourth-placed United, but the Red Devils have two games in hand over Liverpool. Brentford are ninth on 50 points.
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Before the game got underway, the Liverpool fans loudly booed, whistled and chanted their team’s name as the national anthem was played to mark the coronation of King Charles in London earlier on Saturday.
Expecting the visitors to sit deep, Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp deployed Salah, Darwin Nunez, Diogo Jota and Cody Gakpo in a star-studded attack, and it quickly paid off as Salah broke the deadlock in the 13th minute.
The Egyptian started the move before Fabinho crossed to Virgil van Dijk at the back post, and the big Dutchman headed the ball back for Salah to bundle home his 100th goal at Anfield.
Bryan Mbeumo out-sprinted and out-muscled Van Dijk to fire home in the 40th minute for Brentford, but the flag went up for a marginal offside that was confirmed by VAR and the goal was disallowed.
Nunez missed a superb chance to make it 2-0 in the 29th minute as Trent Alexander-Arnold played a brilliant pass over the top to him, but the Uruguayan guided his first-time effort wide of the near post.
Gakpo missed an even better chance early in the second half as Jota flashed a ball across the box, but it struck the striker on the shins and he couldn’t get it on target.
With Brentford struggling to create anything of note and only managing a single shot on target, Salah’s goal proved enough for the home side to claim the victory.
“I think we’ve improved a lot in the last couple of weeks. We’ve won six in a row and we have a few clean sheets, which is really important for us … I think we are more stable at the moment in the team,” goalscorer Salah told Sky Sports.
Though Manchester United are still in the driving seat in terms of Champions League qualification, Salah said his side have not given up on the idea of a top-four finish.
“We’ll take it game by game, we don’t want to look further, just game by game and we’ll see what will happen,” he said.
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