HIGHLIGHTS AND PLAYER’S RATING Liverpool 3-0 Brentford: Mohamed Salah strikes twice and Diogo Jota thumps in a third as Reds win again at Anfield

Report and highlights as Mo Salah and Diogo Jota take Liverpool to sixth-straight Anfield win in the Premier League this season; Reds move on point behind Premier League leaders Man City as they end Brentford’s three-game winning streak

Mohamed Salah’s double took him to 200 goals in English football and helped Liverpool to a 3-0 win over Brentford, which moves them to second in the Premier League, a point behind leaders Manchester City going into the international break.

The Liverpool forward slotted home in the first half to make it 15 straight Anfield Premier League appearances where he has either scored or set a goal up, matching record streaks by legends Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry.

Salah then nodded in for the landmark after the break, when Kostas Tsimikas just kept the ball in play. Diogo Jota thumped in the Reds’ third from the edge of the box to cap a morale-boosting win.

It was an authoritative performance from Liverpool, who also saw two Darwin Nunez efforts in the first half ruled out for offside, as they put their frustrating recent results against Luton and Toulouse behind them.

This was their sixth-straight Premier League win at home this season, with the Anfield factor giving them the platform to battle with the likes of City and Arsenal at the top end of the table and dream of another title tussle.

Brentford, who saw their own winning streak come to a halt, created dangerous moments of their own and actually recorded a better Expected Goals total than Liverpool but Alisson produced a big save from a Bryan Mbeumo one-on-one at 0-0 and the much-improved hosts had too much quality in the final third. They sit 11th in the table.

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Player ratings
Liverpool: Alisson (8), Alexander-Arnold (7), Matip (7), Van Dijk (8), Tsimikas (7), Endo (6), Szoboszlai (6), Gakpo (6), Salah (8), Jota (7), Nunez (6)

Subs: Diaz (6), Elliott (6), Quansah (N/A), McConnell (N/A)

Brentford: Flekken (7); Collins (6), Pinnock (7), Mee (6), Ajer (6); Norgaard (7), Jensen (7), Janelt (6), Roerslev (6), Mbeumo (7), Wissa (6).

Subs: Onyeka (6), Maupay (6), Ghoddos (6), Yarmoliuk (6)

Player of the match: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)

How Liverpool got back to winning ways…
Brentford hadn’t won at Liverpool since 1937 but they arrived on Sunday in optimistic mood after victories in their last three Premier League games and Ethan Pinnock almost stunned Anfield when he prodded wide after an early scramble. Later in the half Mbeumo would draw a stunning stop from Alisson.