Arne Slot fires warning to Liverpool stars after extending lead over Man City

Liverpool fought backmost from 2-1 down to bushed Southampton 3-2 astatine St Mary's to widen their pb astatine the apical of the Premier League with Mohamed Salah bagging a precocious brace

Arne Slot warned Liverpool not to get “carried away” aft Mo Salah ’s treble sent the Kop 8 points wide with a reminder Arsenal blew a akin pb past year.

The Premier League leaders trailed 2-1 astatine woody spoonists Southampton until Salah’s second-half goals gave the flying Dutchman 31 points from a imaginable 36 for starters. If Liverpool tin bushed champions Manchester City - reeling from 5 consecutive defeats - astatine Anfield connected Sunday, their pb astatine the acme could agelong to 11 points.

But Slot cautioned against premature triumphalism astatine Anfield, saying: “It’s a steadfast vantage but we besides cognize what we had to enactment into it to get this pb and to get these wins. And I lone person to amusement the players determination were possibly 1 oregon 2 games for america that were wins by a large margin, but the remainder of them were each by tiny margins.

“I deliberation it was past year, adjacent aboriginal connected successful the season, that Arsenal led by 8 points and City came backmost (to triumph the title). You cognize if you look Arsenal, City, Chelsea and each these different teams - Tottenham were large yesterday arsenic good - they are each capable to triumph truthful galore games successful a row. So it's bully to person this position, but we are decidedly not getting carried away.”

Slot admitted Liverpool were made to enactment harder for the points than helium would person liked up of Wednesday night’s large Champions League day with European Cup holders Real Madrid.

But helium said: “It's precise hard for English teams to bash good successful Europe, due to the fact that there's nary squad successful the Premier League that doesn't origin large problems. This league asks a batch from each subordinate each weekend, and if you don't play successful Europe, that's not ever easy.

“Of people we are truly happy, particularly due to the fact that aft an hr we were 2-1 down. Maybe that wasn't a reflection of however the archetypal hr went, due to the fact that I deliberation we dominated the full game. In the end, if you're 2-1 down aft an hour, you are possibly implicit the satellite if you triumph it with 3-2.

“Mo is simply a large subordinate for america successful large moments, and he's done it again. We ever cognize we tin spot him if things are hard for us.”

Matchwinner Salah pinpointed the crippled with City arsenic a perchance pivotal moment, saying: “Hopefully, we support going successful this direction. We person a crippled against City truthful hopefully, we triumph it and spell 11 points clear. City person a atrocious clip present but they person large players."

Rock-bottom Saints are staring down the tube - nary nine who mislaid 10 of their 12 games successful the apical formation has stayed up. But defiant brag Russell Martin said: “We broke records past season, truthful we volition person to bash it again.

“The vexation is that the goals we conceded were truthful poor. I could judge it a spot much if we had been undone by moments of magic, but we constricted the champion squad successful the league to shots from extracurricular the box.”

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