Mohamed Salah scored each targets as Liverpool win 2-0 at Bournemouth to increase Premier League result in 9 factors.
Mohamed Salah’s double helped Liverpool cross one other large take a look at of its Premier League title credentials with a 2-0 win at in-form Bournemouth, after high-flying rival Nottingham Forest made a press release of its personal in a report 7-0 rout.
Salah moved above Chelsea nice Frank Lampard into sixth spot on the all-time Premier League scoring chart, on 178 targets, by changing a Thirtieth-minute penalty and curling in an attractive second within the seventy fifth on Saturday.
The Egypt ahead now has 21 targets in what might be his final Premier League marketing campaign with Liverpool, with whom his contract is up on the finish of the season.
It’s the fifth time he has netted 20 or extra league targets in a single season for the membership.
It ended Bournemouth’s 11-match unbeaten run within the league and left Liverpool with a nine-point lead over second-place Arsenal and third-place Forest, who bounced again from a 5-0 loss final weekend — additionally at Bournemouth — by demolishing Brighton for his or her heaviest victory within the Premier League period.
Chris Wooden scored a hat-trick for Forest, who’re on track to qualify for a European competitors subsequent season — doubtlessly even the Champions League by securing a end within the high 4 or 5.
Arsenal hosts Manchester Metropolis on Sunday and can look to trim the hole to Liverpool again down to 6 factors.
Wood strengthens Forest’s European ambitions
Wood, a 33-year-old New Zealand international enjoying the most prolific Premier League season of his career, took his tally to 17 goals with his hat-trick and is only behind Salah (21) and Man City’s Erling Haaland (18) in the race for the Golden Boot.
Morgan Gibbs-White, Neco Williams and Jota Silva also scored after an own-goal by Lewis Dunk set the ball rolling at the City Ground for third-place Forest, which is the surprise of the Premier League this season and moved level on 47 points with Arsenal.
“What a difference a week can make,” Wood said, referring to Forest’s heavy loss at Bournemouth. “Last week wasn’t us. Today was definitely us.”
Forest battled to avoid relegation last season but now has a great chance of qualifying for the Champions League, which would put the club back in Europe’s elite — where it was a generation ago when winning the European Cup in 1979 and 1980.
Everton rating their quickest Premier League aim
Abdoulaye Doucoure scored the fourth-fastest aim in Premier League historical past — after simply 10.18 seconds, in keeping with the competitors’s statistic provider, Opta — to set Everton on track for a 4-0 win over Leicester.
From the kickoff, the ball went again to goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who launched a protracted clearance in direction of the Leicester space and straight into the trail of Doucoure. The midfielder surged into the realm and slotted house.
It was the earliest Everton has ever scored within the Premier League, the fourth-fastest aim within the competitors’s historical past, and the quickest ever by a house participant
Beto, a striker filling in for the injured Dominic Calvert-Lewin, scored twice within the first half and Iliman Ndiaye added a late fourth to finish a 3rd straight win for not too long ago employed Everton supervisor David Moyes, who’s having fun with a tremendous begin to his second spell in cost.
10:18 – Everton’s opener was the fourth-fastest aim in Premier League historical past (00:10:18 seconds), and the quickest ever scored by a house workforce within the competitors. Blistering. pic.twitter.com/AXpRjZzkuz
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) February 1, 2025
Leicester was coming off a win at Tottenham that had eased the strain on supervisor Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Fulham got here from behind to beat Newcastle 2-1 away, whereas last-place Southampton received by the identical rating at Ipswich for only a second victory of the league marketing campaign.
