Mohamed Salah stars again as Liverpool draw at Aston Villa

Mohamed Salah continued his impressive season with a goal and an assist as he earned Liverpool a 2-2 draw at Aston Villa.

If this is to be the Egyptian’s final campaign with the Reds then he is going out in style as he took his goal contributions to 39 in just 26 Premier League games, with 24 goals and 15 assists.

He opened the scoring in the first half and then laid on Trent Alexander-Arnold’s second-half equaliser after Youri Tielemans and Ollie Watkins had turned the game around for Villa before the break.

Darwin Nunez’s contender for miss of the season stopped Arne Slot’s men extending their lead to 10 points at the top of the table after a game that was brought forward from March due to their involvement in the Carabao Cup final.

Villa showed they can be a match for any of the top sides on their day, but their inconsistency means they look unlikely to qualify for the Champions League for a second season running.

Liverpool came out of the blocks early and had chances to lead inside the opening 10 minutes as Virgil van Dijk slashed over from Alexander-Arnold’s brilliant pass and then Diogo Jota’s shot was blocked by Tyrone Mings.

Villa came to life and Marcus Rashford, making his first Premier League start since December 1st, thought he had set up an opener in the 17th minute when he played a one-two with Marco Asensio and Andy Robertson turned the cross into his own net from inside the six-yard box, but Rashford was offside.

Salah was off target in the 26th minute when he got a header all wrong, but he was on the scoresheet three minutes later as Liverpool went in front.

It came from some suicidal Villa defending as right-back Andres Garcia passed straight to Jota who closed in on goal and gave Salah a tap-in from