Liverpool edge out Fulham to keep faint top-four hopes alive
Liverpool turned up the pressure on Manchester United with a 1-0 victory over Fulham moving them four points off fourth place as Mohamed Salah's winner edged him even closer to a Steven Gerrard record. There was none of the drama or histrionics of Sunday's 4-3 win over Tottenham in bringing up a fifth successive Premier League victory for the first time since April last year. Salah's 39th-minute penalty, his second in successive games after back-to-back misses, took him to 185 goals for the club, one behind Gerrard, while also going fifth on the club's list of all-time league scorers with 136. Manager Jurgen Klopp's behaviour in the technical area was the very model of exemplary following a Football Association misconduct charge for comments about Sunday's referee Paul Tierney. He was perhaps making the most of his time on the touchline as he has until Friday to respond to the charges and, having already served a one-match ban this season, the punishment could be much more severe.
