Liverpool continued their march for the Premier League title when they expanded their advantage at the top of the table to 13 points by defeating Newcastle 2-0.
The goals of Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister in both halves gave the Reds a deserved victory over the team of Eddie Howe, who were forced to handle Alexander Isak’s late withdrawal from the squad due to a groin injury.
The victory, combined with Arsenal’s goalless draw with Nottingham Forest, meant that Arne Slots were built again on the summit on their lead.
How the game unfolds
Since rain at the kick-off at the kick-off, the two teams started from the end-to-end start as smoothly as the conditions.
And it was Liverpool who benefited and took the lead after only 11 minutes when Szoboszlai’s low left-footed finish went back from a Luis Diaz when he left Nick-Pope when he might have done it better.
The hosts continued to threaten from there, although Kostas Tsimikas with his weaker right foot could only beat up over their best opportunity to start after the start.
Newcastle could not punish this waste, Callum Wilson passed a one-to-one chance in which Liverpool defenders mistakenly believed that a flag was coming outside of the offside.
And half ended with the fact that Szoboszlai almost doubled his balance sheet and was strong from directly in the box.
The break seemed to get part of the energy out of an entertaining game, and Liverpool was happy to contain, and Newcastle wanted to keep things tight to make a chance of having a late blow and gripping.
But all hopes were wiped out shortly after the hour when Mac Allister was waiting home from Liverpool at the end of the Kopendendes after Salah had patiently waited before he rolled the ball in his box.
This effectively signaled the end of a resistance from Newcastle, with the hosts closest to find another destination through Cody Gakpo before the pipe sounded another 2-0 victory.
If there were any Liverpool fans out there, which believed that a desperately short-handed arsenal could somehow be able to hunt them downwards, then this has certainly settled in the nerves.
The red ones are now sitting a whopping 13 points at the top, with only ten games left in their Premier League campaign.
Yes, the Gunners have a game in their hands, but their violations of attack and the failure to score in two games makes it unlikely that they will put together any kind of victories.
And this is, as much as the side of the quality -arne -slot has, which means that it is now inevitable that you will lift the trophy in May.
He seems to break records every week, but they know that there will be a milestone in particular that Salah will claim in mind before the season.
This is the record for assists in a single Premier League season, which is 20 and is held together by Kevin de Bruyne and Thierry Henry.
After setting up Mac Allister here, Salah is now 17 and still has another ten games to get past the previous benchmark.
Who would bet against him in this form?
After Liverpool was confronted with Haaland in front of a Manchester city of Erling at the weekend, he received a similar luck for him when it came about before the kick-off that Alexander Isak would miss a groin burden.
The absence of the Swede clearly damaged Newcastle, who tried to present a threat in attack without the talismanic striker.
Callum Wilson tried his best, but there is no question that Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima konate found things much easier than they had played Isak.
Fortunately, we have the chance to find out how big he has an impact on this team if the two sides look for each other in the final of the Carabao Cup in the final of the Carabao Cup in the final of the Carabao Cup.