Salah double fires Liverpool to victory at West Ham
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah finished his Premier League aim drought however you like by scoring doubly the champions raided the capital again to crush West Ham United 3-1 on Sunday.
Liverpool found life after an initial half almost without goalmouth action in the London Stadium, with Salah providing two exceptional finishes while Liverpool moved into third place.
The Egyptian cut in to curl house with his left foot in the 57th minute -- his first group goal since Dec. 19 -- and doubled the business lead with a silky close-range surface finish from a flowing 68th-minute counter-attack.
Substitute Roberto Firmino create Gini Wijnaldum to tap residence Liverpool's third in the 84th minute before Craig Dawson replied for the hosts with a good consolation goal three minutes later.
Thirteen of Liverpool's last 14 league goals attended in London including three on Thursday later on at Tottenham Hotspur -- a good success that ended their January slump.
Juergen Klopp's area have 40 points from 21 games, several behind leaders Manchester City who they host up coming weekend. West Ham's primary league defeat in seven leaves them on 35 points.
"We obtained wonderful goals, all 3 were unbelievable," Klopp explained. "Maybe within the last week we spoke the proper stuff. These players certainly are a good group and are unhappy with not achieving success. However they remained with the proper attitude."
With Sadio Mane eliminated injured and Firmino kept on the bench, the onus was on the league's top scorer Salah to supply Liverpool's attacking threat and he delivered with a dazzling second-half display to take his tally to 15 for the growing season.
Salah managed Liverpool's only shot on target in an opening period where Divock Origi had several half chances.
Considering the manage West Ham had been on, winning several league game in a row, their approach against a Liverpool area with a patched up defence was amazingly timid.
They barely created a chance, although Michail Antonio did fire narrowly wide in the 55th minute from Jarrod Bowen's pass.
Liverpool found their spark when Curtis Jones replaced James Milner who looked mystified with manager Klopp.
But seconds later on the switch became a masterstroke as Jones did well to keep possession and take up in Salah on the right. The Egyptian then minimize in and curled home a superb finish.
Salah's second was even better. When a West Ham corner found nothing, Jones spread an extended ball out to Xherdan Shaquiri whose first-time diagonal move was caressed by Salah who therefore nudged the ball left-footed former Lukasz Fabianski.
Liverpool's third was a great intricate passing approach that sliced through the West Ham rearguard before Firmino unselfishly squared for Wijnaldum to rating.
Dawson swept home late on but it cannot take on the gloss off an extraordinary display by Liverpool.
