Luis Díaz and Mohamed Salah each scored twice in Liverpool’s 6-3 thrashing of Tottenham
to four points, having played one game fewer than second-placed Chelsea, with the latest illustration of their remorseless cut and thrust under Arne Slot.
Slot, who might have gone to Spurs from Feyenoord in May 2023 only for the clubs to fail to agree a compensation package, had been so effusive about Postecoglou and his approach on Friday as to have people wondering why. One interpretation: carry on attacking, please, and leave those big spaces at the back.
Díaz’s header for the breakthrough was a beauty; he was coiled like a spring, almost side-on, the power and precision on the release too much for Fraser Forster. The vicious delivery from Trent Alexander-Arnold was not bad, either. It was far from being his only wonderful pass. After what happened last season, Díaz was forgiven for stealing a glance across at the assistant referee. He was onside. Then again ….
Slot, by contrast, had rotated expertly on Wednesday in the Carabao Cup at Southampton, leaving seven key men on Merseyside and winning. He recalled six of them to the starting XI – Curtis Jones was the exception. Liverpool looked sharper, fresher. In Postecoglou’s defence, he was still without eight players.
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