Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool cooled off Bournemouth with a 2-0 win at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday.
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Salah’s Premier League-best 20th and 21st goals of the season came either side of halftime and boosted Liverpool’s league-best points haul to 56.
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The loss ends Bournemouth’s club record unbeaten streak at 11 Premier League games. The Cherries stay outside the top four by a point, sitting seventh on the table.
Salah superb for Slot’s super-solid Reds
Mohamed Salah is feeling it — both his form and Liverpool’s chances for a Premier League title in what could still be his final year in the club’s famous red shirt. Salah converted a penalty and scored a fantastic second goal to make him the first player to surpass 20 goals in Premier League play this season. It wasn’t just the score sheet moments, either, as the 21-goal scorer showed off a sumptuous touch in nearly assisting a Trent Alexander-Arnold header. Both Salah and Alexander-Arnold can do all of that with freedom because Arne Slot’s men understand their jobs. The other members of the back four know they have to be safer with the sometimes defensively-challenged Alexander-Arnold marauding forward, and the midfield has to control the opposition in order for Salah to have the time and space to be his best. Winning at Bournemouth has not been an easy task this season, and Slot’s men made it look so.
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What’s next?
Bournemouth go to Everton on Saturday in the FA Cup, then wait a week to visit Southampton in the Premier League.
Liverpool host Spurs on Thursday in a League Cup semifinal second leg, trailing 1-0. They then go to Plymouth Argyle on Sunday, February 9 in the FA Cup. Their next Premier League game is away to Everton on Feb. 12.
Bournemouth vs Liverpool final score: 0-2
Mohamed Salah pen 30', 75'
Bournemouth vs Liverpool live updates — By Nick Mendola
Full time — Bournemouth 0-2 Liverpool
Tightening their grip on the top spot.
Mohamed Salah goal — Bournemouth 0-2 Liverpool (75th minute)
Make it a brace, and a beautiful back end of it.
Liverpool counter toward Luis Diaz on the left. He finds Curtis Jones, who completes the field switch.
Mo Salah’s cool finish is his 21st of the season.
Shocking Bournemouth miss!
James Tavernier curves the ball off the far post but it rolls right to Justin Kluivert with an open goal.
The penalty expert absolutely wastes his chance, skewing it nowhere near the gaping frame.
Huge miss.
Liverpool subs
Alexander-Arnold exits for Conor Bradley, and Gakpo comes off for Darwin Nunez.
Reds have a 1-0 lead with 20 minutes plus stoppage to play.
Virgil van Dijk cautioned
There was no free kick given as Van Dijk clobbered his mark off the ball, but there’s retroactive punishment with a yellow.
Mac Allister subbed off
Arne Slot will not take any more chances with Mac Allister’s judgment, and Curtis Jones will take his place at the hour mark.
Mac Allister dodges red card
The Argentine is on yellow as he lines up a volley, eyes skyward.
David Brooks is running onto the ball and wins it, with Mac Allister kicking into Brooks’ leg.
No yellow. Very fortunate.
Alisson denies Semenyo
Good work on the left from Bournemouth, who get in close!
Ryan Christie slips it to Semenyo, and it’s just a bit in front of the Cherries man.
His low shot is his only hope, and the poke is saved by Alisson.
Still 1-0 Liverpool in the 51st minute. There were no subs at the break.
Halftime — Bournemouth 0-1 Liverpool
Bournemouth started well but the Liverpool lead is backed up by numbers.
The Reds have turned 52% possession into 10 shots and a 1.82-0.18 expected goals advantage.
The Cherries do have five shots and this is not settled, but a Liverpool goal would feel too heavy.
Sweet cross from Salah
The Egyptian is on the ball inside the box and has time to deliver and outside of the left foot, chipped cross to the heart of the box.
Alexander-Arnold arrives but can’t add enough power with his header and Arrizabalaga catches it.
VAR upholds offside call
David Brooks slams home off Milos Kerkez’s cutback, but the flag is up on the Hungarian back.
A long review... upholds the clal.
It remains 1-0 Liverpool, 39'.
Liverpool penalty, Mo Salah goal — Bournemouth 0-1 Liverpool (30th minute)
Lewis Cook has clipped Gakpo as the Liverpool man hits the box. It looks worse as Gakpo then trips himself, but VAR confirms the penalty.
Mohamed Salah strides to the spot to meet Kepa Arrizabalaga. The Egyptian drills a low shot to the keeper’s left and has his 20th goal of the Premier League season.
Szoboszlai chance
Arrizabalaga has to get low to his left this time for a hard shot from Dominik Szoboszlai in the 23rd minute.
Semenyo smashes the post
He’s the story of the first 20 minutes, for sure.
Semenyo shakes Alexander-Arnold again, and then works past Konate
He’s got a rough, acute angle but he batters the upper reaches of the near post!
0-0, 22'.
Half-chance for Liverpool
Cody Gakpo shakes off a mark on the Liverpool left flank, then drives toward the center of the park.
Gakpo tries his luck through traffic from 30 yards, giving Arrizabalaga a bit too long to duck to his right and collect the shot.
0-0, 17'.
Semenyo give away, take away
Antoine Semenyo loses the ball to Salah at midfield and it looks like the Egyptian is on his way to a 1v1.
But Semenyo gets to top speed quickly and jabs the ball away from Salah before the 18. Really nice recovery from the Cherries left wing.
Tyler Adams head injury
USMNT midfielder Tyler Adams has a bloody mouth and appears a bit dazed after an accident on the touchline.
Adams and Alexis Mac Allister were battling for the ball and the latter turned quickly and caught the Bournemouth man’s face with the back of his head.
Adams wants to go back into the game after some treatment but right now Bournemouth are playing with 10.
Shot after 13 seconds
Antoine Semenyo wins the ball off Trent Alexander-Arnold within a few touches of kickoff, and he drives the left.
Cutting inside he only manages a tepid low effort that’s collected by Alisson Becker.
A warning sign, indeed, in the very first movement of the game.
Lineup analysis
The Cherries are still missing their top two center forwards as well as center back Marcos Senesi, but this is a very good lineup for the hosts.
Liverpool are limited in attack options but Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez are fit enough for the subs bench if needed by Arne Slot.
Bournemouth lineup
Arrizabalaga, Kerkez, Huijsen, Cook, Zabarnyi, Adams, Christie, Brooks, Ouattara, Semenyo, Kluivert
Liverpool lineup
Alisson, Robertson, Konate, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Gakpo, Salah, Diaz
Bournemouth vs Liverpool preview — By Joe Prince-Wright
Andoni Iraola’s side are currently on a club-record 11-game unbeaten run in the Premier League, winning 4-1 at Newcastle two weeks ago then smashing Nottingham Forest 5-0 at home last weekend with Justin Kluivert and Dango Ouattara bagging hat tricks in each game respectively. This incredible run has also coincided with huge injury issues which makes it even more remarkable. Bournemouth’s high-pressing approach is so unsettling and they’ve already beaten Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City at home this season.
Liverpool are plodding along very nicely atop the Premier League table as they eased to a 4-1 victory against Ipswich at Anfield last weekend and have a six-point lead over second-place Arsenal and a game in-hand. A much-changed side did lose at PSV in midweek in the Champions League but they still secured top spot in the League Phase and were already through to the last 16 anyway. But Arne Slot’s side have won just two of their last four Premier League games and will be wary of coughing up points by leaving themselves exposed on the counter attack.
Bournemouth team news, focus
OUT: Evanilson (broken foot), Enes Unal (knee), Alex Scott (knee), Luis Sinisterra (hamstring), Julian Araujo (thigh), Marcos Senesi (thigh), Adam Smith (knock), James Hill (thigh), Julio Soler (youth international duty)
Liverpool team news, focus
QUESTIONABLE: Curtis Jones (muscular), Joe Gomez (hamstring), Diogo Jota (muscular), Darwin Nunez (illness)
Bournemouth vs Liverpool prediction
This is going to be really exciting and both teams will create chances. Expect Liverpool to just edge it, and it will probably be late on. Bournemouth 1-2 Liverpool.
How to watch Bournemouth vs Liverpool live, stream link and start time
Kick off time: 10am ET Saturday (February 1)
Venue: Vitality Stadium — Bournemouth
TV Channel: USA
Streaming: Watch live on NBC.com