Mohamed Salah and Xherdan Shaqiri got Liverpool back to winning ways against bottom-of-the-table Fulham.
Match Reports
Liverpool bounced back from their Champions League disappointment on Tuesday with a comfortable 2-0 win over struggling Fulham at Anfield.
Goals in each half from Mohamed Salah and Xherdan Shaqiri secured all three points on Sunday and moved Jurgen Klopp's side back to the top of the Premier League table, at least temporarily.
Liverpool were held by Arsenal in their last league outing before a 2-0 loss to Red Star Belgrade this week, and they looked some way short of their best in a first half in which Fulham had the best chances.
However, the game turned within the space of 14 first-half seconds, when Salah struck after Aleksandar Mitrovic had a header ruled out for offside, and Shaqiri's fine finish made the win secure against a Fulham side who have now lost seven games in a row and remain bottom.
Match Events
40' OFFSIDE! Mitrovic's header disallowed
41' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Fulham (Salah)
Goal! Mitrovic headed in Tom Cairney's cross only to be contentiously ruled offside, Alisson took a quick free-kick and Trent Alexander-Arnold sent Salah clean through to slot past Rico.
53' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Fulham (Shaqiri)
Goal! Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross following a corner.
Line-ups
Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Shaqiri; Salah, Mane, Firmino
Subs: Milner, Sturridge, S. Mignolet, J. Henderson, D. Lovren, Moreno, N.Keita
Fulham XI: Rico; Christie, Chambers, Le Marchand, Mawson, Odoi; Anguissa, Cairney; Sessegnon, Schurrle, Mitrovic
Subs: S. Johansen, T. Ream, N. Kebano, Seri, M. Bettinelli, Vietto, Mensah
Braddy
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The Premier League needs the VAR . Because most of this mistakes made by the refree affects the underdogs
pratikumarcr7
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look around Liverpool goals everywhere Fulham
Divyansh26
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A comfortable victory for Liverpool against Fulham .......... Still unbeaten in the Premier League A Brilliant Record. ........ Keep the spirit and Motto up Lads .....And what a brilliant manager Klopp is ......... In Klopp we trust ...... #YNWA..........
lopacdkn
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It apperas EPL referees make the most errors. Every weekend we see referees make decisions that shouldn't have been. I really don't know if this is actually human error or has to do with match fixing or whatever it is that we don't know anything about. Against Arsenal last weekend Fulham were not lucky to have the decision although Arsenal were too much for them. But today's incident at Annfield was so glaring and painful, because Liverpool didn't really look so threatening and gifted the visitors too many scoring chances another team with better strikers could have made them pay heavily. If Fulham had recorded a goal the story of that match could be different from what it is.
Ghostrider9999
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Liverpool is going to support both of their rivals today..! 😃
frozenme
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Mo Salah has scored against 19 of the 21 Premier League opponents he's faced with Liverpool, failing only against Man Utd and Swansea. Array.
saailhussain
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⚽ 2 goals 🎯 3 assists 👏 Xherdan Shaqiri has either scored or assisted in five of his last six games for Liverpool in all competitions. This man is on fire🔥🔥🔥