LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane scored twice every as Liverpool crushed Leeds United 6-0 on Wednesday to close the gap on Premier League leaders Manchester City to three factors.
Playing their recreation in hand on City, Liverpool raced right into a Fifteenth-minute lead via Salah’s penalty and the title chasers have been unrelenting.
A uncommon Joel Matip aim made it two on the half-hour mark, earlier than one other Salah penalty successfully put the sport to mattress earlier than the interval.
Salah was once more instrumental within the transfer that led to Mane slotting dwelling the fourth 10 minutes from time, earlier than the Senegalese ahead added his second within the ninetieth minute.
Virgil van Dijk stabbed dwelling the sixth in stoppage time to full the proper night for Klopp’s males and ship an actual message of intent to City.
Liverpool on to 60 factors from 26 matches, three behind the champions. Leeds slipped additional into the relegation battle, remaining Fifteenth and solely three factors away from the underside three.
(Reporting by Peter Hall, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
