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Last Updated: February 11, 2024, 00:00 IST
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Diogo Jota, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez Liverpool’s beginning entrance three whereas Mohamed Salah is out injured all scored for the Premier League leaders in a 31 win over Burnley on Saturday.
LIVERPOOL, England: Diogo Jota, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez — Liverpool’s beginning entrance three whereas Mohamed Salah is out injured — all scored for the Premier League leaders in a 3-1 win over Burnley on Saturday.
The Reds responded to Manchester City’s extraordinarily transient return to the league’s summit, after its 2-0 victory towards Everton hours earlier, with a triumph that examined their mettle much more than their stretched assets.
While the three factors reestablished Liverpool’s two-level benefit, the much less-than-convincing nature of victory towards the league’s subsequent-to-final aspect was not fairly befitting the event of the hosts’ largest league crowd of 60,725 after the complete opening of the Anfield Road stand.
For a time it appeared Liverpool, which was with out goalkeeper Alisson Becker and defender Joe Gomez due to sickness in addition to the injured Salah, was nonetheless struggling a hangover from the defeat at Arsenal final week.
It took the acquainted proper boot of Trent Alexander-Arnold, setting a brand new mark of 58 for Premier League assists by a defender, and the equally dependable head of Jota to place them forward at a nook within the thirty first.
The sloppy concession of an equalizer, when Dara O’Shea headed in at a nook on the stroke of halftime, posed additional issues as did the withdrawal of Alexander-Arnold — solely lately returned from a knee harm — on the break.
It was the England worldwide’s alternative, Harvey Elliott, who arrange headed targets for Diaz within the 52nd and Nunez within the 78th to ease the strain.
However, had on-mortgage Chelsea ahead David Fofana been as scientific as he was scoring twice final weekend, then not solely would Liverpool be trying up at City however questions would have began to be requested about their means to match their lengthy-time rivals.
Liverpool ought to have Salah and Dominic Szoboszlai again from harm within the subsequent couple of weeks.
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