Liverpool secured one more win to proceed their relentless Premier League title pursuit courtesy of a 2-0 win over Newcastle on Wednesday.
The Reds secured a routine 2-0 conquer defending champions Manchester Metropolis final outing, whereas Newcastle nearly edged out Nottingham Forest in a seven-goal thriller.
With supervisor Arne Slot watching from the stands, Liverpool wanted simply 10 minutes to open the scoring by Dominik Szoboszlai, who was heading in the right direction for the second sport working, firing dwelling previous Nick Pope through the legs of Dan Burn.
Having beforehand fluffed an excellent alternative to degree issues earlier than being adjudged to be offside by the linesman, Callum Wilson was in on objective as soon as once more proper on the half-hour mark however despatched his effort large of the goal.
Buoyed by his opener, Szoboszlai got here near doubling his tally for the day 9 minutes from the interval when he curled an try previous Pope’s right-hand submit.
Mohamed Salah lower a peripheral determine for big spells of the primary half earlier than lastly having his first crack at objective within the thirty ninth minute, albeit with no actual risk posed.
That was the ultimate significant assault of word within the first half as Liverpool headed into the locker room with a slim benefit.
A pedestrian begin to the second 45 minutes noticed each groups fail to actually take a look at the opposing goalkeeper, however the half’s first important second would come three minutes previous the hour mark as Alexis Mac Allister doubled Liverpool’s lead with a fierce shot from contained in the field.
Establishing Mac Allister’s strike, Salah recorded his seventeenth help of the season to maneuver inside three of Thierry Henry’s file of 20.
Now two targets behind, Newcastle responded by bringing on 4 substitutes as they regarded to get themselves again within the contest.
Salah got here near establishing a second objective of the evening 17 minutes from time when he situated Luis Diaz with a pleasant outside-of-the-boot cross to the far submit, however the Colombian was unable to information his effort dwelling.
Off the again of eight straight matches with at the very least a objective, Salah was not keen to let his scoring streak finish and not using a battle and referred to as Pope into motion within the 88th minute.
Trying to proceed their set-piece exploits from final outing, Liverpool had the ball at the back of the online for a 3rd time, however Gakpo’s objective was dominated out for a foul on Pope.
Gakpo took one other pop on the Newcastle objective in second-half stoppage time, though the 25-year-old was unable to get his effort heading in the right direction this time round.
Liverpool continued to probe in the hunt for a 3rd objective however needed to accept a 2-0 victory to maneuver 13 factors away from Arsenal within the Premier League desk.
A mouth-watering Champions conflict towards Paris Saint-Germain awaits the Merseysiders on Wednesday earlier than they welcome Southampton to Anfield three days later.