Mohamed Salah at double as Liverpool ease past Brentford

Mohamed Salah scored twice to help Liverpool ease to a 3-0 Premier League win over Brentford at Anfield on Sunday.

The Egyptian opened the scoring six minutes before the break with a low finish into the corner after being teed up by Darwin Nunez, with his second a cool header following a Kostas Tsimikas' cross just after the hour mark.

Diogo Jota drilled home a fine third goal as Liverpool maintained their 100 per cent record at Anfield this season in style.

Salah now has 10 Premier League goals this campaign, one behind Manchester City striker Erling Haaland and his latest double took him to 200 in English football.

Salah, 31, also became the first Liverpool player to score in the opening six home Premier League games of the season and will be up against Haaland and City immediately after the international break.

“He is always there, is a goal threat, creates chances and is really important for us like everyone knows,” Jota said of his Egyptian teammate after the match. “Congratulations to him on his 200th goal.

“We are different players obviously and we try to do our best to help the team. That is what we want to keep doing.”

Liverpool moved to second in the table, level on points with leaders Man City – who play later on Sunday against Chelsea – and Arsenal who are third.

But Jota played down any title talk, for now. “It's still early doors. We need to keep winning to be able to be in that title fight towards the end. It is a long road,” said the Portuguese attacker.

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“You never know. It's still early days and people are fighting for