Southampton 1-3 Liverpool: 5 Talking Points, Premier League 2018/19

#4 The drought finally comes to an end

Salah finally broke his goal drought

As Liverpool secured their 25th win of the season, one man would have been mightily relieved after breaking his goal scoring duck. He is none other than Mohamed Salah. The Egyptian had face a lot of criticism after drawing blanks for nine consecutive games and making wrong decisions in the final third of the pitch.

Salah was well marshalled from the word go by Romeu and Bertrand, as the duo doubled up against the Egyptian for the majority of the game. The Egyptian found less space to operate on and couldn’t link up as well as he would have expected with Alexander-Arnold. It also seemed as though Salah was trying too hard to make something happen. There were quite a few instances where Salah overhit a pass or two and lost possession cheaply.

An instance of some poor decision making from Salah came towards the end of the first half when he had the chance to put Mane through on goal. Salah held on to the ball instead of passing it to Mane who could have found himself one-on-one against the keeper.

Salah’s moment came ten minutes from time as he raced through on goal and placed his shot beyond the reach of Angus Gunn. The goal was a massive sigh of relief for the Egyptian who couldn’t find the back of the net for quite some time. The Egyptian’s strike against Southampton was his 50th goal for the club and 18th goal of the 2018/19 Premier League season.

As great players do, Salah popped up at the right time and scored the goal that offered Liverpool some breathing space in a closely fought contest.