Mohamed Salah and Diogo Jota doubles help rampant Liverpool hit Leeds for six

As Liverpool finally found a cure for the travel sickness which has undermined their season, Mohamed Salah looked simply unplayable and Trent Alexander-Arnold seemed the solution to most of England’s problems.

Medicines can rarely have proved as dramatically effective as the balm provided by a generous Leeds defence and papier-mache home central midfield as the outstanding Salah and Diogo Jota scored two goals apiece to leave Jürgen Klopp’s side glimpsing European horizons once more.

Admittedly they remain eighth in the Premier League, nine points behind fourth-placed Newcastle, but at least Liverpool now harbour the sort of hope fast draining from a Leeds team currently leaking goals at a frightening rate.

Javi Gracia’s players may be two points and two places above third from bottom Nottingham Forest but they have conceded 11 times in two games now and the Championship is beckoning. Even worse, Leeds appear to have forgotten how to tackle.

When they won at Anfield in late October hopes were high that Jesse Marsch’s then-side had turned a corner, but it proved illusory and by February Gracia had replaced the American in the home dugout.

Things had been going well under the new regime until Crystal Palace came calling just over a week ago but the resultant 5-1 thrashing left Leeds in no fit state to face Salah and friends.

Although Klopp’s side had failed to win a game since demolishing Manchester United 7-0 in early March, their intelligently slick counter-press soon terrified the life out of Elland Road regulars.

With Alexander-Arnold deployed in an extremely fluid role which involved him operating in central midfield almost as much as a more conventional right-back, Gracia’s players looked confused.

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