By Opta Analyst | Created at 2024-12-22 18:24:58 | Updated at 2024-12-22 23:07:40
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Mohamed Salah grabbed four goal involvements as Liverpool beat Tottenham in a nine-goal thriller in north London. Re-live the action with the best facts and Opta data in our Tottenham vs Liverpool stats page.
Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to four points after beating Tottenham 6-3 on Sunday in another chaotic game for Ange Postecoglou’s side.
Luis Díaz (two), Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah (two) did the damage for Arne Slot’s men, while James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke pulled goals back for Spurs.
Salah ended the game with two goals and two assists, and did his best to give Liverpool a fast start, having five shots in the first 18 minutes, including hitting the crossbar, but it was Díaz who put the visitors ahead in the 23rd minute. The Colombian headed in an inch-perfect cross from Trent Alexander-Arnold, his sixth Premier League goal of the season, and first since September.
Mac Allister made it two in the 36th minute with another header, the Argentine’s first league goal of the campaign, before Maddison halved the deficit just a few minutes later after Mac Allister was dispossessed by Kulusevski, It took the former Leicester City man to 100 Premier League goal involvements (55 goals, 45 assists) in 208 appearances.
Liverpool’s two-goal cushion was restored in first-half stoppage time though as Szoboszlai was played in by Salah on the counter-attack, before slotting through the legs of Fraser Forster.
With that assist, Salah became the first player to reach double figures for both goals and assists before Christmas in a Premier League season in the history of the competition, but he wasn’t done there.
The Egyptian added two more goals for Liverpool inside the first 16 minutes of the second half to make it 5-1, meaning not only did he go ahead of Bukayo Saka for Premier League assists this season in the game (11) but he also took the outright lead in the race for the Golden Boot (15).
In typical fashion, Tottenham kept coming at Liverpool despite their woes at the back, with Kulusevski and Solanke pulling it back to 5-3 with seven minutes remaining, but Díaz put the game to bed with his second of the game when he drilled in from Salah’s pass.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Tottenham vs Liverpool stats from their Premier League meeting at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own post-match analysis.
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