London (AFP)
Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, who returned to the starting lineup, led his Liverpool team to a wide victory over Tottenham 4-2, by scoring a goal and contributing to two goals in the thirty-sixth round of the English Football Championship.
Liverpool raised its score to 78 points, ensuring at least third place, with a difference of 5 points behind leaders Arsenal, and four points behind second-placed Manchester City, which has a game in hand, while Tottenham remained in fifth place with 60 points, and the loss is the fourth in a row for Spurs. “In the league.
At Anfield, Salah returned to the starting lineup, after sitting on the bench of the reserve players in the last match against West Ham last week, which witnessed a verbal altercation between him and his German coach Jurgen Klopp when the Egyptian player was brought on in the 79th minute, and the exciting statements that accompanied it. Especially from “the Pharaoh,” who said while passing through the mixed area, “There will be fires if you speak.”
However, Klopp considered in a press conference on Friday that the issue had been settled once and for all between him and Salah: “I have settled matters, there is no problem between us.”
Salah imposed himself as the star of the match, as he scored a goal, and had the upper hand in two other goals, and a goal he scored in stoppage time was not counted for him due to offside.
After Salah shot against the crossbar and then against the post in the first quarter of an hour, he succeeded in opening the scoring with a header, following a wonderful cross pass from the Dutchman Cody Khakpo (16).
Salah raised his score to 25 goals in various competitions this season, including 18 in the local league.
Liverpool added the second goal, when Salah shot a ball creeping into the area, but Tottenham’s Italian goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario blocked it without catching it, and Scottish left-back Andy Robertson followed it up from close range into the net (45).
Liverpool settled the result in a big way, when Khakpo increased their lead with the third goal, from a header, following a cross from Harvey Elliott (50).
Elliott himself quickly added a wonderful goal, when he shot a curling ball into the upper right corner of Tottenham’s goal with a pass from Salah (60).
Tottenham responded with a goal scored by Brazilian substitute Richarlison, following a cross pass from Brennan Johnson past his compatriot Alisson (73), then South Korean Heung-Min Son reduced the gap to two goals following a perfect pass from Richarlison (77).
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