After a week of gossip, intrigue and acrimony, Mohamed Salah was back on the bench for Liverpool and made his comeback much sooner than anyone might have expected as Joe Gomez came off injured after just 26 minutes. While he won and took the corner from which Ekitike scored his second of the day, it was a challenging comeback for the Egyptian, who was not at his best. He shot well over the bar under minimal pressure late in the match, and squandered a three-on-one counter-attack in injury time with a badly misplaced pass to Andy Robertson.
