Liverpool bounced back from defeat to Manchester City as Mohamed Salah sunk Brighton to open up a seven-point lead at the top.
Match Report
Room for Liverpool's attacking players to operate between a compact Brighton defence and midfield was sparing, but Sadio Mane engineered some in the 27th minute for Trent Alexander-Arnold to whip into the box and Xherdan Shaqiri to glance just wide.
Salah escaped the shackles to force a save from David Button early in the second half and a jinking dribble from the Egypt star moments later drew a clumsy foul from Pascal Gross.
Button guessed correctly but was beaten for power.
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Match Events
26' CLOSE! Shaqiri's header inches wide out
Fabinho latches onto a cross from the right, but can't keep his header on target. Alexander-Arnold got the ball in, and despite reports of that earlier injury, he seems have hit his stride now.
50'Penalty Goal! Brighton 0-1 Liverpool (Salah)
An emphatic finish by Salah, who makes no mistake with a powerful strike into the right-hand corner. Button guessed the right way, but could not keep it out.
67' Locadia's long shot saved by Alisson
Locadia finds space around 25 yards out, and does not hesitate in letting rip with a low strike that dips just in front of Alisson, who has to help it wide.
Line-ups
Brighton XI: Bong, D. Button, Murray, Stephens, Groß, Pröpper, Duffy, Dunk, M.Montoya, Jürgen Locadia, S. March
Subs: Bruno, J. Steele, L. Balogun, B. Kayal, Knockaert, Andone, Max Sanders
Liverpool XI: Wijnaldum, J. Henderson, X. Shaqiri, Alisson, Roberto Firmino, Salah, Van Dijk, S. Mané, Fabinho, A.Robertson, T. Alexander-Arnold
Subs: Milner, S. Mignolet, Matip, Moreno, Origi, N.Keita, Rafael Camacho
kenzytalbe
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Can I know why the hell most of the population think that if you have a lot of penalties, then you're a diver and a cheat. Salah has scored alot of penalties and people think that he is a diver. Salah used to get fouled and still he would get up and score so why qould he need to dive if he can score already???
Takbcil
377
I am a Manchester United fan, and I watched the game, and It pains me to see Liverpool doing so well, however, Salah's penalty is a correct decision in my opinion.
morbatz
326
salah competing with neymar for dives
L10NELMESSI
287
Sadio Mané has now played 100 games for Liverpool across all competitions, scoring against 23 different opponents. Brighton, though, are still not one of them. 😑
L10NELMESSI
273
Mo Salah giving competition to Neymar for Dive d'Or
Dada20
264
salah last 3 goals comes from penalty and are all dives PELAH???
RealMd13
237
😂😂😂 Mohamed salah you need to stop this 👇🏾
cokdkmrs
234
the penalty decision is correct but that falling style is just way too much for salah as if he was pulling from behind😂😂😂. Salah must let the ref do their job not manipulating them with his diving
leviathan2004
224
As football fans, we should put aside differences in support and look at the facts. that penalty that salah won was a clear penalty. Anybody saying otherwise is being dishonest. It is clear that Gross fouled Salah.
rahadiktuy
169
These defenders are too slow, that's why they have mistimed their tackles and kicked Salah instead. It always looked like Salah dived, but the fact is he's moving fast and any contact will cause him to lose balance and tumble. Watch the replays and it can be seen that Salah always gets kicked on the thighs before he fell.
frankapchi27
128
To all the hater I say thank for watch us win To Liverpool fan I say let continue supporting our term in joyful moments and sad ones ryt now let be happy for our term...#ynwa
whykallar
67
Liverpool was really lucky to win today's match, the referee truly favor them, Brighton had a very clear and fair penalty, when Van Dijk play a hand ball right in the penalty box and the referee refused to blow his whistle, I'm just reading some Afers comments that refusing to admits, people that i been trusting and considering on here as analyst really astonished me today.
happygrap
53
Liverpool should replace Coutinho, they played for fun until Salah penalty. they really need someone who can play those decisive passes to Salah and Mane