Watford, October 16 (BNA): Mohamed Salah scored Sadio Mane’s 100th goal in the Premier League and scored a great goal himself, while Roberto Firmino scored a hat-trick to make Liverpool top the standings with a 5-0 victory over Watford. Claudio Ranieri’s first match.
Firmino may have walked away with the match ball, but it was Salah who took his breath away in an individual attacking display filled with the kind of vision, skill and cunning that Watford fans could only dream of on their part, Reuters reports.
The visitors took the lead in the ninth minute when Liverpool won with a first kick from Watford, and Mohamed Salah played a superb pass to Mane outside his left shoe for the Senegalese striker to bring his striker to the Premier League 100 years.
Mane then picked James Milner in an overlapping round and fired a perfect shot across goal for Ermeno to lead from close range in the 37th minute to give the Reds a 2-0 lead at the end of the first half.
Watford defender Craig Cathcart struggled in the afternoon as he slipped to send a back pass to Ben Foster that the keeper fired past Firmino, who finished the match with a simple kick to make it 3-0. But the worst was yet to come because Salah took possession of the penalty area after two minutes.
Trapped in a triangle of Watford defenders, Al Masry rolled him over the ball before pasting Cathcart and then letting him slide in the wrong direction as he cut and curled the ball with his left foot to score a superb solo goal.
“Every time I’m in the penalty area I try to get the ball for someone to score or try to score myself. It’s always about the team, I always try to play for the team,” beamed Salah told BT. sports.
“The most important thing is that we scored good goals, we all scored up front,” he added.
Ranieri, who took over as Watford manager on 4 October after the sacking of Zesco Munoz, had no doubts about the scale of the task facing him as Watford came woefully short, and Firmino added his third stoppage-time goal in the second half. .
The victory brings Liverpool back to the top of the Premier League with 18 points, two ahead of Chelsea, who can regain the lead if they beat Brentford in a late match on Saturday. Watford occupies fifteenth place with seven points.
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