Salah Scores On Return As Liverpool Dispatches Brentford

LONDON: Mohamed Salah made a scoring return for Liverpool because the English Premier League chief dispatched Brentford 4-1 on Saturday.

Salah had been out for a month since sustaining a hamstring damage on the Africa Cup of Nations. He got here on instead simply earlier than halftime at Gtech Community Stadium and struck his nineteenth aim of the season in all competitions within the 68th minute.

Liverpool already led 2-0 at that time, after Darwin Nunez opened the scoring within the thirty fifth and Alexis Mac Allister added one other from Salah’s help.

Ivan Toney pulled a aim again for Brentford within the seventy fifth, scoring for the fourth time in 5 video games since coming back from an eight-month ban for breaching betting guidelines.

But substitute Cody Gakpo sealed the win for Liverpool.

While their title problem stays in fine condition, there was concern after new accidents to Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota within the first half. Jota needed to go away the sector on a stretcher.

Liverpool was already with out the injured Trent Alexander-Arnold, Thiago Alcantara and Dominik Szoboszlai, whereas goalkeeper Alisson was additionally harm in coaching on Friday and missed the sport in opposition to Brentford.

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