Liverpool may be in distant pursuit of Manchester City but the chase goes on, thanks to a player whose chances of overhauling the leader in the scoring stakes may be equally remote. Mohamed Salah could go to Africa for a month and retain a sizeable advantage in the race for the Golden Boot but as he made his comeback in a cameo, Diogo Jota showed why Liverpool have the division’s two most prolific players by scoring twice.
Liverpool’s deficit to City stands at nine points and Jürgen Klopp argued: “I am not sure we are in a position to put them on their toes. I don’t think they smell our breath already.” Meanwhile, Jota cut Salah’s lead to four goals. It could be a gulf too big to bridge given that the Egyptian could have had a hat-trick inside five minutes during his bit-part role, but Jota again illustrated that potency at Anfield is not confined to Salah.
