Mohammed Salah assisted two goals for Luis Diaz and scored one himself as Liverpool beat Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford in the Premier League.
The win continues the fine start to Arne Slot’s tenure with Liverpool, who have won all three of their opening Premier League matches to keep pace with Manchester City at the top of the table on nine points.
Salah supplied Diaz twice in the first half with Liverpool profiting from Casemiro mistakes on both occasions, and Erik ten Hag’s removal of the Brazilian at the break failed to stem the bleeding as the Red Devils’ tormentor-in-chief bagged a goal of his own before the hour mark.
With Manchester United’s new brains trust all in attendance, including Jim Ratcliffe, Ten Hag’s side started brightly but looked in danger every time Liverpool broke forwards and Old Trafford was half-empty by the time the final whistle rang out.
By contrast, Arne Slot continues his winning start as Liverpool boss in fine style and saw his side go second in the Premier League – level on nine points with first-placed Manchester City, but second on goals scored – with the Reds seemingly picking up right where Jurgen Klopp left off.
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Apart from a point-blank Joshua Zirkzee miss, Liverpool had the better of the non-scoring chances too and Trent Alexander-Arnold saw his apparent opening goal chalked off for an inconsequential offside in the build-up though not before the full-back had recreated Steven Gerard’s iconic camera kiss in celebration at Old Trafford.
Federico Chiesa watched on from the stands but will be another deadly weapon to work into a plethora of attacking quality at Slot’s disposal, as Liverpool put in their most ruthless performance of the season so far.
Casemiro’s hopeless pass to two Liverpool players gave the Reds a numbers advantage that left Diaz and Szoboszlai queuing up to score the opener, but when he was dispossessed ahead of the second goal it was a different picture.
Manchester United appeared well set with precious few attacking players ahead of Diaz, yet it took just two passes to create space for his well-placed shot while Alexander-Arnold’s disallowed goal was also relatively simple in its constuction.
Ten Hag replaced Casemiro with Toby Collyer at half-time but the damage was already done, as United’s past problems came back to haunt them to devastating effect.
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