Super Salah slays sorry Watford with four goals

MOHAMED Salah scored four goals as Liverpool thumped Watford 5-0 to go third in the Premier League.

The Egyptian took his tally of league goals to 28 for the season while Roberto Firmino got the other as Liverpool leapfrogged Tottenham into third.

Bottom side West Brom are now 10 points shy of safety after a 2-1 loss at Bournemouth while Crystal Palace moved out of the bottom three after a 2-0 win at Aaron Mooy’s Huddersfield.

Salah was at his brilliant best yet again as he ripped Watford apart, becoming the first Egyptian ever to score a Premier League hat-trick. The first goal came in the fourth minute, finishing low into the corner and a tap-in made it 2-0 just before half-time.

Firmino scored the third with a deft flick just after the break and Salah completed his hat-trick 13 minutes from time with another mazy run followed by an unstoppable finish.

Salah then completed the rout with five minutes left on the clock. At Bournemouth, West Brom began well when Jay Rodriguez put them in front after 49 minutes.

But Jordan Ibe equalised and Junior Stanislas scored with a brilliant free-kick one minute from time to lift Bournemouth to 10th and leave West Brom rooted to the bottom and seemingly destined for the drop.

Crystal Palace won 2-0 at Huddersfield to move out of the relegation zone. James Tomkins and Luka Milivojevic scored as Palace pulled themselves out of trouble.

Stoke remain second-bot- tom after they were beaten 2-1 at home by Everton, having had Charlie Adam sent off after half an hour, with Cenk Tosun scoring both goals for the visitors.

Stoke manager Paul Lambert said the club now face a massive battle for survival. “The games coming up are probably the biggest games the club has faced in many years,” Lambert said.