Salah's late equaliser earns Liverpool 2-2 draw at Arsenal

Mohamed Salah's precocious equaliser earned Liverpool a 2-2 gully with rivals Arsenal successful an entertaining Premier League brushwood astatine the Emirates Stadium connected Sunday, arsenic Gabriel Magalhaes and Jurrien Timber limped disconnected to adhd to the Gunners' wounded woes.

Bukayo Saka gave Arsenal the pb successful the ninth infinitesimal erstwhile helium ran connected to Ben White's shot implicit the top, chopped wrong Andy Robertson and fired past Caoimhin Kelleher astatine his adjacent station for a 50th Premier League extremity connected his instrumentality from injury.

Virgil van Dijk, possibly fortunate to debar a paper for a petulant footwear astatine Kai Havertz successful the opening exchanges, equalised 9 minutes later, nodding location a Luis Diaz flick-on from a corner.

"I deliberation to travel backmost doubly is simply a bully thing, and we instrumentality the constituent and we determination (on)," Van Dijk told Sky Sports.

Arsenal responded positively and spurned respective half-chances, with Saka hitting a changeable implicit the barroom and Havertz incapable to power Gabriel Martinelli's unsafe shot crossed the look of goal.

The location fans wanted a punishment conscionable aft the half-hour people erstwhile Ibrahima Konate floored Martinelli with a clumsy challenge, but referee Anthony Taylor deemed helium got capable of the ball, with Havertz slicing a volley implicit the apical successful the aftermath.

Mikel Merino scored his archetypal Arsenal extremity conscionable earlier half-time, gathering Declan Rice's free-kick with a slug header that was upheld aft a lengthy VAR reappraisal for offside.

Liverpool improved aft the interruption and Diaz went adjacent 5 minutes aft the restart pursuing a mazy tally on the touchline.

ARSENAL 'VERY DISAPPOINTED'

Gabriel limped disconnected aboriginal successful the 2nd half, replaced by Jakub Kiwior, arsenic Arsenal sustained different wounded to a cardinal player. Recent returnee Timber followed him disconnected later.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta volition anticipation to soon invited backmost skipper Martin Odegaard, who has been retired since September but said successful the matchday programme that helium is adjacent to a return.

The hosts had to withstand sizeable periods of pressure, though they threatened connected the antagonistic arsenic Liverpool near gaps astatine the back.

Salah levelled the crippled successful the 81st infinitesimal with a calm tap-in from Darwin Nunez's selfless cross, putting the Egyptian winger eighth connected the all-time database and level with Robbie Fowler connected 163 vocation Premier League goals.

The momentum seemed to beryllium with Liverpool to clinch a comeback triumph but Arsenal had the shot successful the nett astatine the decease done a operation of Havertz and Gabriel Jesus, though referee Taylor had already blown for a foul.

Asked astir the incident, Arteta said helium did not cognize wherefore a foul had been fixed successful the build-up and declined to remark further.

The gully puts Liverpool 2nd with 22 points from 9 games, 1 constituent down Manchester City, and Arsenal determination into 3rd with 18 points.

Arteta told reporters helium was "very disappointed" his broadside did not win, but said: "Very arrogant of the team, particularly with the concern that we are going done astatine the moment."

He added that helium would similar to beryllium 5 points up of City alternatively than 5 behind, though helium said: "The squad is alive, the squad wants it."

Liverpool's caput manager Arne Slot said that, connected balance, helium was happy: "Going 2 times down against a precise beardown and bully Arsenal team, past to get a constituent is pleasing to see.

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