Mohamed Salah's cryptic post six minutes after Arsenal dropped points catches the eye

Mohamed Salah appeared to instrumentality a veiled swipe astatine Arsenal pursuing their 2-2 gully with Aston Villa connected Saturday, a effect which near Liverpool six points wide astatine the apical of the Premier League

Mohamed Salah acceptable tongues wagging connected societal media with a cryptic station minutes aft Arsenal's slip-up against Aston Villa.

On Saturday, Liverpool extended their pb astatine the apical of the Premier League aft Darwin Nunez netted doubly successful wounded clip to seal a heart-pumping 2-0 triumph implicit Brentford. Arsenal had the accidental to adjacent the spread successful the precocious kick-off but could lone muster a gully against Villa aft throwing distant a two-goal pb successful the 2nd half.

In an evident effort to hitch brackish successful the wounds of Liverpool's rubric rivals, Salah uploaded a drawback of him and match-winner Nunez to Instagram conscionable six minutes aft the last whistle blew astatine the Emirates Stadium. The brace looked successful precocious spirits arsenic they prepared for instrumentality disconnected up of their formation backmost to Merseyside.

The station didn't person a caption, leaving fans speculating whether the timing of it was intentional. "Proper s***housery from Salah there," 1 protagonist wrote connected X, portion different commented: "Salah knows precisely what he's doing here."

Liverpool made hard enactment of their travel to Brentford and looked to beryllium heading for their third-successive gully successful the league earlier second-half substitute Nunez broke the deadlock astatine 91 minutes. Since his archetypal Premier League run backmost successful 2022/23, lone Jhon Duran (eight) has scored much goals from the seat than Nunez (seven).

Arsenal, meanwhile, raced into a 2-0 pb against erstwhile manager Unai Emery's Villa, with Gabriel Martinelli grabbing his side's archetypal extremity 10 minutes earlier the interval and Kai Havertz doubling their pb 10 minutes aft the restart. But the visitors deed backmost astir instantly, with Youri Tielemans scoring connected the hour-mark earlier Ollie Watkins equalised connected 68 minutes.

The results mean Arne Slot's men are present six points wide of the Gunners, who person played a crippled more. It puts the Reds successful rod presumption to clinch their 2nd Premier League crown, 5 years aft their archetypal nether Jurgen Klopp.

But portion everything looks rosy for Liverpool connected the pitch, it's a somewhat antithetic communicative disconnected it. The futures of Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are inactive up successful the air, with each 3 present into the last six months of their respective contracts.

Salah, 32, insists helium wants to stay, but an statement is yet to beryllium reached. The Egyptian is present escaped to talk to overseas clubs, and a mega-money determination to Saudi Arabia could beryllium connected the cards astatine the extremity of the season.

Elsewhere, Alexander-Arnold continues to beryllium linked with a determination to Real Madrid, who are reportedly confident of landing the defender. Liverpool are, however, optimistic of extending Van Dijk's deal, though thing has been agreed of yet.

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