Salah not giving up on Premier League title after Liverpool beat Man City

Mohamed Salah said Liverpool are not giving up on the Premier League title after the Egyptian's strike in a 1-0 win inflicted Manchester City's first defeat of the season on Sunday.

The Reds are still 10 points behind City and 14 adrift of leaders Arsenal, but kickstarted their season with just a third league win of the campaign.

"Personally I love to play always for a title," said Salah. "In my head I am going to fight for it, but we need to focus more and take one game at a time."

Jurgen Klopp was sent off in the closing stages as he lost the plot with the officials for refusing to award Salah a free-kick.

But City were also left fuming at referee Anthony Taylor after he disallowed Phil Foden's strike early in the second half after a VAR review.

"This is Anfield," said City boss Pep Guardiola, who was targeted by coins thrown from the crowd in the aftermath of the disallowed goal.

"The referee spoke with my assistant and Jurgen before the game and said 'Today I won't make soft fouls' and all the game was play on, play on, play on, except the goal we scored."

For all their achievements under Guardiola, City are still to master Anfield in front of a crowd as Liverpool's proud unbeaten home league record with fans in attendance dating back to 2017 goes on.

Klopp claimed in his pre-match press conference that no one can compete with the wealth of resources at City's disposal after adding Erling Haaland to a squad filled with seasoned Premier League winners.

But the Norwegian's 10-game scoring streak at club level came to an end on an afternoon Liverpool will hope gives their season lift-off.

"On a normal day you should not even try against City, you have to play to your limits and further," added Klopp.

"That's what we did in a well