Liverpool comfortably dispatched Brentford 2-0 on Sunday as Arne Slot earned his first Premier League victory at Anfield.
Thomas Frank’s facet carried a risk by way of, significantly from set-pieces, however objectives from Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah for sufficient for Liverpool to assert all three factors.
Participant of the Match
Proper from the get-go, Diaz seemed up for this one as his urgent and one-touch passing was sharp.
It did not take lengthy for him to seek out the again of the web, both, as the primary aim got here simply 11 minutes in. Brentford had a corner-kick however had been caught out by a fast Liverpool counter, with Salah successful the ball on the sting of the field and laying a cross into area for Diogo Jota.
The Portuguese star darted ahead and slid an ideal cross by way of on aim for Diaz, who took a few good touches earlier than lashing a strike residence previous the keeper.
Remarkably, regardless of being all motion, Diaz really accomplished 100% of his passes on the day, with 15 of these passes being despatched into harmful areas within the ultimate third.
A kind of passes got here within the second half as he despatched a cross by way of down the proper channel for Salah to attain.
He gained nearly all of his duels, nearly all of his tackles and made 4 ball recoveries.
Worst Participant
Mathias Jensen did not have sport for the guests.
He did not lookup for the battle in the midst of the pitch on the day and gained zero tackles and made zero interceptions, whereas he accomplished simply two ball recoveries.
Simply earlier than half-time, he was booked and that additional impaired his means to get close to the Liverpool gamers, in concern of getting despatched off.
He was ultimately substituted.
