Key points:
- Diogo Jota’s objective after only 97 seconds against Southampton is Liverpool’s soonest in the Premier League since April 2019 (15 seconds versus Huddersfield).
- Diogo Jota scored twice as Liverpool whipped Southampton to climb to second in the Premier League, one point behind pioneers Chelsea.
Southampton showed up not set in stone to assault the hosts however their intense goal was rebuffed after under two minutes when Andrew Robertson was permitted to move away down the flank and cross for Jota to jab in.
Detecting the chance to get a major success against totally open rivals, Liverpool kept up the assault, Sadio Mane heading wide before having an objective precluded for a peripheral offside.
In any case, a subsequent objective appropriately showed up soon after the half-hour mark when the plain Jota tapped in from Mohamed Salah’s square ball after great connection up play between the Egypt global and Jordan Henderson.
Those two strikes took Liverpool to 700 objectives scored since Jurgen Klopp showed up at Anfield – they have likewise turned into the primary first-class group in English football to score to some degree twice in 17 straight matches in all contests since Sunderland in 1927.
The Reds were not done there, in any case, and a third objective showed up only a couple of moments some other time when the guests neglected to clear their lines appropriately and Thiago Alcantara rebuffed them with an avoided strike for his second objective in as many games.
The half-time stretch gave just a short rest and Liverpool made it 4-0 before long the restart as Virgil van Dijk terminated in from a corner.
Jota nearly finished his full go-around halfway during that time half yet cut only wide as Southampton held the harm to four objectives when in truth it might have been a lot more regrettable.
