Premier League: Liverpool Beat Brentford To Close Gap With Table Leaders

Liverpool earned a well-deserved 3-0 home victory against Brentford with Mohamed Salah contributing two goals to the scoresheet on his 10th Premier League goal of the season. 

After two disallowed goals, the Reds moved ahead before half hour of play as Salah gained a vantage point in the box from Nunez Darvin's pass, and rifled home a left-foot shot to beat Mark Flekken to bottom right of the goal. 

Just after the moment Brentford surged into Liverpool's 18-yard box, the Egytian forward doubled the lead with a glance header from close-range to beat Flekken to the goal following Konstantinos Tsimikas's cross. 

Brentford's deficit became wider sooner as Liverpool added in the third goal from Diogo Jota's curly shot after Tsimikas picked him up with a pass on the edge of the box. 

The maximum points earned moved Liverpool up to the second place behind table leaders, Manchester City with both teams on equal points (27). Llikewise with Arsenal, who are in the third place with 27pts as the title race gets heated up.

Quick Overview

Both sides started competitively for much of the first half, and  by the look of it, Liverpool yet had more advantage than their opponents in an halve that witnessed two goals canceled by the VAR. Nunez saw his two goals within a space of six minutes disallowed for offside. 

To be fair, Liverpool were the better side for much of the first half, and that stretched into the second half, which they dominated as Brentford waned. Reds narrowly escaped going one-man down following a rough tackle from Wataru Endo, which was overlooked after verifying with the VAR. 

The victory was well-deserved for Liverpool and it was not that Brentford did not do anything worth saying, they were just overrran and outperformed by their hosts at Anfield Stadium.