Liverpool have not yet recaptured the spectacular form of last season but they collected a precious win here thanks to three excellent goals. For most of the game the visitors lacked spark but they illuminated proceedings with a brilliant move in the 67th minute that culminated in Mo Salah opening the scoring. Trent Alexander-Arnold added a second with an outstanding free-kick from 25 yards before Roberto Firmino topped off the scoring after a sweeping late counterattack.
Although those goals gave the scoreline an emphatic look and took Liverpool to a better points tally than they have ever had at this stage of a campaign in the club’s illustrious history, they laboured at times here, a fact Jordan Henderson underlined by getting himself sent off for two shoddy tackles on his return from injury.
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