Liverpool 2-0 Wolves: VVD nets header, Salah scores, Reds take important 3 pts

Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah goals move hosts to within six points of top four.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

6' Dawson makes an important clearance！

15' Yellow Card! Stefan Bajcetic booked

22' Bueno goes off injured

36' Yellow Card! Semedo booked

39' CHANCE! Elliott‘s header over the bar

49' Yellow Card! Sarabia booked

68' Foul! Darwin goal disallowed

72' GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Wolves (Van Dijk)

77' GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Wolves (Salah)

Match Report

Liverpool moved to within six points of the Premier League's top four as second-half goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah guided them to a 2-0 win over a stubborn Wolves side at Anfield.

Liverpool's 5-2 thrashing at the hands of Real Madrid last week had created a sense of doom and gloom around Anfield, but Jurgen Klopp's side went into their fixture against Wolves after picking up seven points from their last three league games without conceding a goal.

And the Reds maintained that resurgent form thanks to two of the players that have helped to define Klopp's Anfield reign, with Van Dijk finally breaking the deadlock in the 73rd minute when he headed in Diogo Jota's cross from close range.

Salah then sealed the points just four minutes later when he turned in Kostas Tsimikas' low ball into the Wolves area to move Liverpool up to sixth, while the visitors remain only three points above the relegation zone.

What's next?

Manchester United visit Liverpool in the Premier League at Anfield on Sunday, kick-off 4.30pm. Jurgen Klopp's side then go to Bournemouth on Saturday March 11; kick-off 12.30pm.

Wolves host Tottenham on Saturday at Molineux - kick-off 3pm - before travelling to Newcastle on Sunday March 12, kick-off 4.30pm.

Line-ups

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Salah, Van Dijk, Fabinho, Tsimikas, Jota, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Darwin Núñez, Elliott, Stefan Bajcetic

Subs: Milner, Henderson, Matip, Firmino, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Robertson, Kelleher, Cody Gakpo, Fabio Carvalho

Wolves XI: Moutinho, Dawson, Sarabia, Lemina, Jimenez, Semedo, Jose Sa, Neves, Kilman, Matheus Nunes, Hugo Bueno

Subs: Diego Costa, Daniel Bentley, Castro, Traore, Podence, Pedro Neto, Rayan Aït-Nouri, Nathan Collins, João Gomes