Mohamed Salah was the star of Liverpool's win agains Bournemouth and team-mate Virgil van Dijk has called upon the Egyptian to continue firing the Reds to success amid his expiring contract

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Mohamed Salah scored both goals as Liverpool won 2-0 over Bournemouth on Saturday, the Egyptian's double extending their lead on the top of the table to nine points

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Mohamed Salah's interview after his brace in the away win at Bournemouth left some Liverpool fans picking up on the wording of the match-winner's post-match comments

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BOURNEMOUTH 0-2 LIVERPOOL: Both teams came into this game in superb form but the Reds overcame the threat of the Cherries as Mohamed Salah put on a show with a brace to make Premier League history

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Arne Slot’s team are masters of making their opponents, Bournemouth this time, look as if they are in poor formLiverpool this season have been very good at being good enough. There have been very few games in which they’ve dismantled the opposition. They have won fewer league games by more than three goals than Tottenham have, but ended the day nine points clear at the top with their closest rivals to play the defending champions on Sunday. If Liverpool do, as they surely will, go on to win the title, it will have been an old-fashioned sort of success, a league won not by the spectacular or the flamboyant but by consistency and calmness, by ruthless accumulation.This was Liverpool’s sixth 2-0 win in the league; more than a quarter of their games so far. It’s a scoreline that speaks of control, of winning games with a little to spare, taking freakish equalisers, ill luck and odd refereeing decisions out of the equation, without being flashy and demanding overexertion: 2-0 is the scor...

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The January transfer window is almost over but Liverpool are still involved in a number of transfer sagas, including the futures of Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk

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Reds end impressive unbeaten run from Cherries in clinical fashion

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Liverpool march on as league leaders, departing with no little relief from Bournemouth. Arne Slot’s team had not fallen into the traps Andoni Iraola’s team have used to sink top-four opponents this season. Mohamed Salah, with customary efficiency, scored twice to claim the three points. If his first came after a highly debatable penalty award, the second, a left-footed chip hit like a prime Tiger Woods approach shot, was a goal of inarguable beauty. It meant Liverpool had negotiated one of their most demanding remaining assignments and sent the pressure back into Arsenal’s fraying mindset. The post-match celebrations reflected the importance of victory.A game too far for Bournemouth? They were unchanged, as necessity has demanded for weeks now, Liverpool able to field the same XI that swept aside Ipswich last week. A lack of jeopardy in the week’s Champions League action meant only Andy Robertson and Cody Gakpo had played at PSV Eindhoven. Continue reading...

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Liverpool took another step closer to the Premier League title as a Mohamed Salah double piled the pressure on Arsenal before they host Manchester City

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Can Liverpool’s march towards the title survive a testing trip to Bournemouth? Follow all the action from a huge Premier League clash at the Vitality Stadium

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Can Liverpool’s march towards the title survive a testing trip to Bournemouth? Follow all the action from a huge Premier League clash at the Vitality Stadium

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Virgil van Dijk made a name for himself at Celtic before moving to Southampton and Liverpool, and has previously showered one of his ex-Hoops team-mates with praise for his capabilities

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