A primary half brace from Mohamed Salah was sufficient for Liverpool as they noticed off Tottenham on Sunday night.
The Reds have been greater than deserving of their first half 2-0 lead, however a spirited second half efficiency from Tottenham nearly noticed the house aspect mount an unlikely comeback – Harry Kane halved the deficit for the Lilywhites.
Liverpool hit the bottom operating on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Mohamed Salah scoring a beautiful objective within the eleventh minute to offer his aspect the lead.
After being performed the ball by Darwin Nunez, the Egyptian worldwide shortly managed with one foot, then blasted into the underside nook of the online with the opposite.
Scientific. 👑 @MoSalah pic.twitter.com/bMyeZULHHe
— Anfield Watch (@AnfieldWatch) November 6, 2022
Salah is such a major character man
— Sean (@SeanDOlfc) November 6, 2022
Tottenham tried to press ahead seeking an equaliser instantly after, and have been maybe unlucky to not be given the possibility to equalise from the penalty spot when Trent Alexander-Arnold seemingly pushed Ryan Sessegnon.
The referee, Andrew Madley, waved play on nonetheless.
Twitter was notably break up on whether or not it ought to, or should not have been given.
Spurs desire a penalty for a shove by TAA on Sessegnon. Madley says no……
— James Pearce (@JamesPearceLFC) November 6, 2022
Tottenham desire a penalty for a push by Alexander-Arnold on Sessegnon. Bear in mind Jota final yr? Properly, yeah. That.
— Ian Doyle (@IanDoyleSport) November 6, 2022
Would really like somebody to elucidate why that wasn’t a penalty on Sessegnon? Delicate sure nevertheless it’s a transparent push no?
— Julian Betts (@BettsJulian) November 6, 2022
Issues went from dangerous to worse for Tottenham earlier than the top of the primary half as a calamitous little bit of defending from Eric Dier gifted Salah a second objective.
Dire from Dier.
— Gary Lineker 💙💛 (@GaryLineker) November 6, 2022
🥴 Since shifting to Tottenham in 2014, Eric Dier has dedicated 7 errors resulting in an opposition objective
🙃 4 of these have come towards Liverpool…
🔴 Salah capitalises on Dier’s gaffe to place Liverpool 2-0 up at Tottenham
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) November 6, 2022
44 objectives and 14 assists towards the Premier Leagues massive 6! 👏
Mo Salah loves the massive video games! 👑 pic.twitter.com/puUhq7OwIG
— 90min (@90min_Football) November 6, 2022
As per, Tottenham appeared like a very completely different crew in the beginning of the second half, offering Harry Kane with way more help within the ultimate third.
This good spell for the house aspect nearly culminated in a objective, with Ivan Perisic hitting the crossbar from eight-yards out after being discovered by Sessegnon.
PERISIC OFF THE BAR!!!
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) November 6, 2022
How has Perisic not scored ffs
— SHARKY (@Belgian_Hotspur) November 6, 2022
The objective did finally come instantly after the introduction of the returning Dejan Kulusevski. The Swedish star slid the ball by to Kane on the suitable of the penalty space, who then fired low and onerous throughout Alisson and into the online.
Sensible objective.
Recreation on, Harry Kane pulls one again and that’s distinction that Dejan Kulusevski makes to this crew. That objective had been coming and with Kulusevski on Tottenham have a participant that makes higher selections in the important thing areas. Typical Kane objective firing throughout the keeper.
— Josh Bunting (@Buntingfootball) November 6, 2022
⚽️ Harry Kane has now scored in 10 of his 14 league appearances this season
⚪️ Kane halves the deficit with 20 minutes to play…#TOTLIV
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) November 6, 2022
Kulusevski is class
— Idd (@iddrisrh) November 6, 2022
Regardless of Spurs’ finest efforts nonetheless, they weren’t capable of seize an all-important second objective.
