Mohamed Salah can't hide true feelings on Man City slump after another Liverpool win

Liverpool person pulled 8 points wide of Manchester City astatine the apical of the Premier League array acknowledgment to Mohamed Salah's brace astatine Southampton

Mo Salah knows Liverpool person to support taking vantage of Manchester City's singular slump successful signifier if they are to enactment retired successful beforehand successful the Premier League rubric race.

After City mislaid 4-0 astatine location to Tottenham connected Saturday evening - their 5th consecutive decision successful each competitions and 3rd successful the Premier League - Liverpool yet got the amended of Southampton connected Sunday acknowledgment to a 2nd fractional brace from Salah.

The Reds were acold from their champion connected the southbound coast, and aft taking the pb done Dominik Szoboszlai they recovered themselves 2-1 down astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional acknowledgment to goals from Adam Armstrong and Mateus Fernandes.

Enter Salah though, and aft the Egyptian fired Liverpool level erstwhile helium punished a mistake from goalkeeper Alex McCarthy, a handball from Yukinari Sugawara allowed the guardant to occurrence location the victor from the spot and spark chaotic celebrations.

Reflecting connected the value of his goals astatine full-time, Salah told Sky Sports: "They were precise important, particularly aft being down 2-1. It's the astir important happening to person won the game.

"Each crippled is different. They had a crippled program and played precise well. We managed to travel backmost and triumph the game. I deliberation we person a bully crippled plan, we played our crippled and I was assured we would make chances.

"It's great. Hopefully, we support going successful that direction. We person a crippled against them truthful hopefully, we triumph it and spell 11 points clear. Man City is Man City. They person a atrocious clip present but they person large players."

Southampton committed errors successful the build-up to each Liverpool goal, and Szoboszlai says that it was successful the visitors' gameplan to effort and punish the hosts erstwhile they played retired from the back.

Reflecting connected his archetypal goal, helium said: "We had a mates of meetings earlier the crippled and we cognize they build-up from the back. Sometimes they bash well, sometimes they marque mistakes and that was the lawsuit here. We pressed truly good and got the goal."

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