This Liverpool has championship ingredients!
Arne Slott's team is the leader in the Champions League, it is also the leader in the Premier League, and what - it has five points more than the second-placed Manchester City.
It will be nice for the players and fans of the "Reds" during the championship break due to the obligations of the national team.
And those championship ingredients were demonstrated by Liverpool against Aston Villa, who, despite the uncertain result, did not give many chances until the very end - 2:0.
Sloto's team is solid in defense, very dangerous offensively, especially on the counterattack, psychologically extremely stable - where Jurgen Klopp left off, the Dutch coach obviously continued.
The match was marked by Mohamed Salah, but not only the match - the Egyptian has a "double-double" performance in all competitions this season, scoring 10 goals and providing 10 assists!
He also had a goal and an assist in this match, in which the goals were scored in a similar manner.
In the 20th minute, after a corner by Aston Villa, the Egyptian ran away from the opponent's defense, he would probably have finished it all by himself if he hadn't been knocked down. but the "glory" was grabbed by Darvin Nunjes, who bypassed Emiliano Martinez and scored for 1:0.
In the 84th minute, a similar situation, with the fact that the Egyptian finished everything by himself.
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