Arriving with the intention of taking their guests by surprise, Forest gave up three goals to Liverpool counterattacks. All three members of the Reds’ attacking trident scored goals; in the first half, Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez all but sealed the victory before Mohamed Salah added a third.
With their eighth straight victory at Anfield, Liverpool is just three points behind league-leading Tottenham Hotspur as Jurgen Klopp’s ‘Liverpool 2.0’ takes shapeAfter a fierce counterattack in the first half, Salah slid Nunez past Forest’s confused defense, setting up the Uruguayan for a shot that Matt Turner parried into Jota’s path. Jota gestured to his teammate’s personal troubles by holding up Luis Diaz’s shirt in joy of his tap-in.
Four minutes later, Salah was once more at the point of a surgical spear piercing Forest’s heart. After combining with the Egyptian playmaker, Dominik Szoboszlai drilled the ball onto Nunez’s extended foot.Never one to sit back and enjoy success, Szoboszlai saw Salah at the breakdown of a long throw for Forest. Turner stood well beyond his penalty area and momentarily considered swatting the ball away as he miscalculated the bounce of Szoboszlai’s thunderous pass. After reconsidering, Forest’s goalkeeper allowed the ball pass through, allowing Salah to score at Anfield for the fifth time in as many league games.
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