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Slot hails ‘special’ Salah for reaching 250 extremity nine milestone arsenic Liverpool hit Villa

Liverpool managed to easiness nan unit connected caput coach Arne Slot by returning to what they know, mostly nan broadside that waltzed to nan title past season, and hit Aston Villa astatine Anfield. Mohamed Salah scored his 250th Liverpool extremity successful nan 2-0 win.

Afterwards Slot hailed his “unbelievable” forward, who had opened nan scoring successful a deserved conclusion of Unai Emery’s in-form squad aft a calamitous correction by nan World Cup-winning goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez. Salah’s onslaught capped a vastly improved capacity from nan Egypt international.

“It’s huge,” Slot said of Salah’s latest Liverpool milestone. “It is almost unbelievable if you people 250 goals, fto unsocial 250 goals for 1 club. You don’t spot that overmuch successful shot immoderate more. Apart from nan extremity he had a very bully performance. When we had to play long, we chiefly played to him and he held nan shot and nan squad could travel to him. What I liked was that he besides helped nan squad defensively arsenic well. After nan first extremity he was helping Virgil [van Dijk] astir nan halfway line. I liked his capacity tonight. For him to people is not typical but 250 is special.”

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Good greeting Guardian readers and invited to nan latest version of Matchday live! We’ve sewage 2 Premier Leaugue fixtures to loook up to this afternoon, arsenic good arsenic nan 2nd Old Firm derby this play – a Scottish League Cup semi-final nary little – and, earlier each of that, 4 matches successful nan WSL.

Yesterday was a spot of a monster successful nan English top-flight, truthful earlier we get stuck into today’s games let’s return a look backmost astatine yesterday’s headlines…