{"id":299108,"date":"2023-11-12T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=299108"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T16:24:31","slug":"liverpool-3-0-brentford-mohamed-salahs-joins-illustrious-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/liverpool-3-0-brentford-mohamed-salahs-joins-illustrious-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah&apos;s joins illustrious group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah&#8217;s brace sees him join an illustrious group of Premier League legends&#8230; as Diogo Jota completes trio of goals to help Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side bounce back from disappointing week<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mohamed Salah scored a brace of goals to help Liverpool defeat Brentford 3-0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Diogo Jota followed up with the third goal late in the second half to seal the win<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mo Salah joined an exclusive club of Premier League greats as Liverpool took advantage of their early kick off to move joint-top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Salah struck in each half to become only the fourth player to score in his first six Premier League home matches in a season \u2013 following Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Les Ferdinand.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the 15th consecutive league match at Anfield in which the Egyptian King has contributed either a goal or an assist.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool then wrapped up a comfortable home win with Diogo Jota\u00a0adding a third.<\/p>\n<p>In tricky wind and rain, Jurgen Klopp responded to Alexis Mac Allilster\u2019s one-match ban by drafting in summer signing Wataru Endo for his first Premier League start at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/16\/77708433-12740301-image-a-12_1699805109604.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/16\/77708937-12740301-image-a-14_1699805155996.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/16\/77708393-12740301-image-a-13_1699805113107.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Seven of Liverpool\u2019s nine substitutes were aged 20 or younger on a youthful bench.<\/p>\n<p>Brentford included 34-year-old defender Ben Mee for his first start since September following a muscular injury.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool survived an early scare when Ethan Pinnock narrowly failed to connect from close range to put Brentford\u2019s back-five under heavy pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Darwin Nunez was rarely far from the action. He forced Mark Flekken into a save at his near post and then twice had goals ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n<p>First, he sidefooted Dominik Szoboszlai\u2019s intended shot and then delivered an overhead kick after Virgil van Dijk\u2019s header was brilliantly saved by Flekken. On both occasions the flag was raised and VAR checks confirmed it \u2013 though the first decision was by the length of a big toe.<\/p>\n<p>The only danger to dominant Liverpool\u2019s was themselves. A slack pass by Alexander-Arnold inside his own box could have been punished by Bryan Mbuemo\u2019s shot but it went high.<\/p>\n<p>The forward then got goalside of Alexander-Arnold but Alisson was alert and made the save.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Paul Tierney wasn\u2019t popular with The Kop when he booked Joel Matip \u2013 the Germany imploring his innocence for a foul on Christian Norgaard.<\/p>\n<p>Having come close to scoring, Nunez was more successful as a provider.<\/p>\n<p>After 39 minutes, he cleverly turned and released Salah down the right. There was a sense of inevitability at what happened next \u2013 the winger clinically firing into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez and Salah could have added a second goal before the break but it duly arrived through Salah again after 62 minutes\u2013 shortly after a VAR check had decided Endo\u2019s sliding challenge on Norgaard was not on an offence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/16\/77708945-12740301-image-a-17_1699805210960.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/16\/77707463-12740301-image-a-15_1699805165732.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/16\/77706795-12740301-image-a-16_1699805171682.jpg\" height=\"462\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>For the goal, Kostas Tsimikas centred from the byline and Salah converted with a simple header.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody moved to the halfway line to restart until VAR checked the whole of the ball hadn\u2019t crossed the line. They ruled it hadn\u2019t and though it appeared close, it wasn\u2019t contested as vehemently as Newcastle\u2019s recent winner against Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>That spelled the end of Brentford\u2019s run of three consecutive wins and hopes of a first win at Anfield since 1937.<\/p>\n<p>Jota added a third after 75 minutes, taking a pass from Tsimikas by the left angle of the penalty and shifting inside Frank Onyeka before driving a finish past Flekken.<\/p>\n<p>uis Diaz got a specially loud cheer when he came on as an 83rd-minute substitute \u2013 his first Anfield appearance since the release of his kidnapped father in Colombia. And in injury-time one of the next generation, 19-year-old James McConnell, was sent on for his Premier League debut.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12740301\/Liverpool-3-0-Brentford-Mohamed-Salahs-brace-Diogo-Jotas-strike-Jurgen-Klopp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah&#8217;s brace sees him join an illustrious group of Premier League legends&#8230; as Diogo Jota completes <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah&amp;apos;s joins illustrious group - Sportstons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/liverpool-3-0-brentford-mohamed-salahs-joins-illustrious-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah&amp;apos;s joins illustrious group - Sportstons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah&#8217;s brace sees him join an illustrious group of Premier League legends&#8230; 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