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THE title race is well and truly on and Mo Salah is up for the fight with Manchester City.
His spectacular goal showed that Liverpool really are ready to slug it out toe-to-toe with the English champions for their crown, as they displayed real grit and character to come from behind to beat Norwich. And afterwards, Salah insisted that he and his teammates are now focussing on what THEY can achieve, not on what Pep Guardiola’s side are doing. “We know when you fight with City, most of the time they win games, but we know all we can do is focus on each game and that’s the most important thing. “So that is what we do - focus on ourselves and see what happens at the end of the season.” Liverpool are still chasing glory on four fronts, with both domestic cups now a real target, and the Champions League quarter final beckoning. The Reds face Chelsea in the first of those aims, the EFL Cup final next Sunday, and centre back Joe Gomez explained that is what being at Liverpool is all about. “We play to win trophies: the Champions League, the Premier League... those are the cream crop where of the for us and that’s we want to progress. “Now the League Cup is another opportunity to try to get another trophy under our belt. “We are hungry, it’s a trophy and that’s what we
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want to do. We want to keep adding history to the club and it’s a great opportunity to do so at the weekend.”
Manager Jurgen Klopp heaped praise on Salah after the victory.
His goal to put Liverpool ahead – and now very firmly back in the title race – was a thing of beauty to fittingly mark his 150th for the club.
He is the second fastest to that mark in Liverpool history, and the 10th highest scorer for the club – at a strike rate better than any of the forwards above him.
Klopp said: “Nobody could expect when Mo scored his first Liverpool goal at Watford it would be possible for him to score 149 more in such a short space of time.”
Klopp also saluted winger Sadio Mane, who netted against Norwich, adding: “Sadio’s goal record is absolutely insane as well. He is a world-class striker wherever he plays.”