Salah double helps Liverpool beat Bournemouth; while Forest enjoy 7-0 rout

Mohamed Salah scored some goals arsenic Liverpool triumph 2-0 astatine Bournemouth to widen Premier League pb to 9 points.

Mohamed Salah’s treble helped Liverpool walk different immense trial of its Premier League rubric credentials with a 2-0 triumph astatine in-form Bournemouth, aft high-flying rival Nottingham Forest made a connection of its ain successful a grounds 7-0 rout.

Salah moved supra Chelsea large Frank Lampard into sixth spot connected the all-time Premier League scoring chart, connected 178 goals, by converting a 30th-minute punishment and curling successful a beauteous 2nd successful the 75th connected Saturday.

The Egypt guardant present has 21 goals successful what could beryllium his past Premier League run with Liverpool, with whom his declaration is up astatine the extremity of the season.

It’s the 5th clip helium has netted 20 oregon much league goals successful a azygous play for the club.

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah scores his side’s 2nd extremity [Paul Childs/Reuters]

It ended Bournemouth’s 11-match unbeaten tally successful the league and near Liverpool with a nine-point pb implicit second-place Arsenal and third-place Forest, who bounced backmost from a 5-0 nonaccomplishment past play — besides astatine Bournemouth — by demolishing Brighton for their heaviest triumph successful the Premier League era.

Chris Wood scored a hat-trick for Forest, who are connected people to suffice for a European contention adjacent play — perchance adjacent the Champions League by securing a decorativeness successful the apical 4 oregon five.

Arsenal hosts Manchester City connected Sunday and volition look to trim the spread to Liverpool backmost down to six points.

Nottingham Forest’s Chris Wood scores his side’s 3rd extremity against Brighton [Andrew Boyers/Reuters[

Wood strengthens Forest’s European ambitions

Wood, a 33-year-old New Zealand planetary enjoying the astir prolific Premier League play of his career, took his tally to 17 goals with his hat-trick and is lone down Salah (21) and Man City’s Erling Haaland (18) successful the contention for the Golden Boot.

Morgan Gibbs-White, Neco Williams and Jota Silva besides scored aft an own-goal by Lewis Dunk acceptable the shot rolling astatine the City Ground for third-place Forest, which is the astonishment of the Premier League this play and moved level connected 47 points with Arsenal.

“What a quality a week tin make,” Wood said, referring to Forest’s dense nonaccomplishment astatine Bournemouth. “Last week wasn’t us. Today was decidedly us.”

Forest battled to debar relegation past play but present has a large accidental of qualifying for the Champions League, which would enactment the nine backmost successful Europe’s elite — wherever it was a procreation agone erstwhile winning the European Cup successful 1979 and 1980.

Everton’s Abdoulaye Doucoure celebrates scoring their archetypal extremity [Peter Powell/Reuters]

Everton people their fastest Premier League goal

Abdoulaye Doucoure scored the fourth-fastest extremity successful Premier League past — aft conscionable 10.18 seconds, according to the competition’s statistic supplier, Opta — to acceptable Everton connected people for a 4-0 triumph implicit Leicester.

From the kickoff, the shot went backmost to goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who launched a agelong clearance towards the Leicester country and straight into the way of Doucoure. The midfielder surged into the country and slotted home.

It was the earliest Everton has ever scored successful the Premier League, the fourth-fastest extremity successful the competition’s history, and the quickest ever by a location player

Beto, a striker filling successful for the injured Dominic Calvert-Lewin, scored doubly successful the archetypal fractional and Iliman Ndiaye added a precocious 4th to implicit a 3rd consecutive triumph for precocious hired Everton manager David Moyes, who is enjoying a good commencement to his 2nd spell successful charge.

10:18 - Everton's opener was the fourth-fastest extremity successful Premier League past (00:10:18 seconds), and the quickest ever scored by a location squad successful the competition. Blistering. pic.twitter.com/AXpRjZzkuz

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 1, 2025

Leicester was coming disconnected a triumph astatine Tottenham that had eased the unit connected manager Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Fulham came from down to bushed Newcastle 2-1 away, portion last-place Southampton won by the aforesaid people astatine Ipswich for conscionable a 2nd triumph of the league campaign.

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