Sensational Salah seals win
SHORT PASSES Egyptian striker’s brace helps Liverpool overcome Leicester 21
LONDON : Liverpool celebrated Virgil van Dijk’s arrival at An field by coming from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 thanks to Mohamed Salah’s brace, while Danny Drinkwater scored his first Chelsea goal in a 5-0 rout of Stoke City.
Van Dijk, signed from Southamptonfor aworldrecord feefor a defender of £75 million, isn’t able to play for Liverpool until January, but the flaws the Dutch centre-back will be asked to fix were on display as Leicester took a third minute lead on Saturday.
With Van Dijk watching from the stands, Liverpool defender Joel Matip carelessly conceded possession andRiyadM ah rez set up Jamie Vardy to slot past goalkeeper Loris Karius, selected in place of the dropped Simon Mignolet, for his 10th goal of the season. Liverpool couldn’t find a first-half equaliser despite having 12 shots, but they were level seven minutes after the interval.
Egypt win ger Sal ah took Sad io Man e’ s brilliant pass and showed good footwork before drilling past Kasper Schmeichel for his 22nd club goal of an incredible debut season following his move from Roma. Sal ah wasn’ t finished yet and he wonit for Liverpool in the 76th minute, turning away from Leicester defender Harry Maguire and firing in at K op end.
CHELSEA CRUSH STOKE
At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea climbed into second place above Manchester United, who host Southampton later on Saturday.
Antonio Cont e’ s side made the perfect start when German defender Antonio Rudiger rose above three Stoke defenders to head home from Willian’s freekick in the third minute.
Eden Hazard was rested on the Chelsea bench, but his replacement Drinkwater did a passable impression of the brilliant Belgian, the midfielder bagging his first goal for the Blues with a blistering strike from the edge of the area in the ninth minute.