Liverpool 3-0 Brentford (12 Nov, 2023) Game Analysis

Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool maintained their 100% winning record at Anfield this season with a 3-0 victory over Brentford on Sunday, their sixth consecutive Premier League win at home.

Salah – who now has 200 goals in English football with Liverpool and Chelsea – became the first player in history to score in each of Liverpool’s first six home league matches of a season as the team Jurgen Klopp overtook Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal into second place. the table with 27 points after 12 matches.

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Brentford, who saw their three-game winning streak end, are 10th with 16 points.

Darwin Nunez saw two efforts disallowed in the first half for offside as the feeling of an imminent goal grew.

Talisman Salah finally broke the deadlock in the 39th minute after Trent Alexander-Arnold played a pass to Nunez who slipped it to Salah behind the Brentford defense for a left-footed finish into the far corner.

Salah, 31, headed his second goal at the far post in the 62nd minute after Kostas Tsimikas slipped to keep the ball in play on the touchline. Diogo Jota scored in the 74th when he cut inside and bent the ball into the far corner past goalkeeper Mark Flekken.

“Crazy,” said Klopp, marveling at Salah, for whom Liverpool reportedly received a £150 million ($183.33 million) offer from Al-Ittihad in the last transfer window.

“Goal number 200 in England, isn’t it? Exceptional, I played a great game today,” added Klopp. “Two players always around him, he kept the ball.

“We had so many good moments in the first half.”[The] the composure for the first goal is crazy. Without a doubt in this area, it shows on the scoresheet. Special player.”