- Liverpool moved eight factors clear on the prime of the desk with win at St Mary’s
- Mo Salah netted a double within the second half to safe dramatic comeback win
Arne Slot has dismissed the notion that Liverpool will get carried away with being eight factors clear within the Premier League title race.
Mo Salah scored twice because the Reds fought from 2-1 right down to beat a spirited Southampton facet, who led after Mateus Fernandes and Adam Armstrong cancelled out Dominik Szoboszlai’s opener.
With Manchester Metropolis slumping, it means Liverpool have respiration house on the summit forward of a titanic tussle between the 2 groups at Anfield on Sunday. However Slot says his staff are preserving stage headed.
‘It is good to have this place however we’re positively not getting carried away,’ he stated. ‘We additionally know what he must put into it to get these leads and these wins.
‘I feel there have been solely perhaps one or two video games for us that had been wins by a giant margin however the remaining had been by a small margin, so we all know how troublesome it’s to win a sport.
‘These gamers have been longer within the Premier League than I’ve, however I feel even in a while within the season final season, Arsenal led by eight factors and Manchester Metropolis nonetheless got here again.
Arne Slot would not imagine his Liverpool facet will get carried away after going eight factors clear
A second half brace from Mo Salah secured a dramatic 3-2 win over Southampton at St Mary’s
The Reds have constructed a big hole over Man Metropolis who had been hammered 4-0 by Tottenham on Saturday
‘You understand if you happen to face Arsenal, Metropolis, Chelsea and all these different groups that they’re all capable of win so many video games in a row.’
On Salah, Slot added: ‘We all the time know we will belief him if issues are troublesome for us as a result of after we went 2-1 down, I did not actually really feel that was the second we may rating.
‘It was a implausible go from Ryan Gravenberch, and the timing of the run and the way Mo completed it was particular.
‘That helps you again within the sport and we wanted that aim to play the final 25 minutes we performed as a result of, for me, it was then a matter of time earlier than we scored the third aim.’
