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Liverpool\u2019s title destiny may still be out of their hands but they refuse to submit, with the 5-0 demolition of Huddersfield a reminder they are ready to pounce should Manchester City slip up.<\/p>\nLiverpool\u2019s title destiny may still be out of their hands but they refuse to submit, with the 5-0 demolition of Huddersfield a reminder they are ready to pounce should Manchester City slip up.<\/p>\n
The gap between top \u2013 the place occupied by Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side after this victory \u2013 and bottom could not have been more glaring as the visitors were outclassed at Anfield.<\/p>\n
City, now two points behind with a game in hand, face a potentially tricky trip to Burnley knowing they cannot afford a mistake at this late stage of the campaign,<\/p>\n
The relegated Terriers did themselves no favors after allowing Naby Keita to score after just 16 seconds, Liverpool\u2019s quickest Premier League goal and their 100th in all competitions this season.<\/p>\n
With principal owner John W Henry making a rare Anfield appearance Sadio Mane and Mohamed both scored twice.<\/p>\n
Liverpool now have the Premier League\u2019s top scorers this season (Salah 21, Mane 20) and with the team on course to reach 97 points it shows just how impressive City have had to be \u2013 and will still have to be \u2013 to deny the Reds their first title since 1990.<\/p>\n
The windy conditions posed more of a problem to Liverpool than Huddersfield did, although no-one noticed after Keita struck before some fans had taken their seats.<\/p>\n
Jon Gorenc Stankovic was caught in possession by the Guinea international, who took the return pass from Salah to sweep home the second fastest goal in the club\u2019s history, narrowly missing Paul Walsh\u2019s 14-second record against West Ham in 1984.<\/p>\n
Salah fired wide and Virgil Van Dijk headed over before the Holland defender strode out of defense to tee up an Andy Robertson cross which was met by Mane\u2019s downward header.<\/p>\n
In doing so Robertson became the first Liverpool defender to provide 10 assists in a Premier League season and only the third in the competition\u2019s history after Leighton Baines and Andy Hinchcliffe.<\/p>\n
Opposite full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold is only one behind, however, after he clipped the ball forward and Salah lobbed the advancing Jonas Lossl to score his 68th goal on his 100th appearance for the club \u2013 equaling the record of Roger Hunt and Sam Raybould.<\/p>\n
Incredbly Salah, with 25 goals this season, was not even on the PFA shortlist but became only the third Liverpool player to score 20-plus Premier League goals in successive seasons after Robbie Fowler and Luis Suarez.<\/p>\n
In the second half Mane lobbed over and Daniel Sturridge, making his first league start at Anfield since November 2017 after Roberto Firmino was left out with a minor muscle injury, had a goal ruled out for offside. In between Karlan Grant missed an open goal from four yards for the visitors.<\/p>\n
Mane added another header, this time from a Henderson cross, and Liverpool were so comfortable they were able to give Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 20 minutes after 367 days out with a serious knee injury.<\/p>\n
He almost scored after his first couple of touches, denied by Lossl\u2019s outstretched leg and while Mane was denied a hat-trick of headers by the post Salah could not miss from Robertson\u2019s 11th assist of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s thoughts now turn to the considerably more difficult proposition of Barcelona in the Nou Camp in a Champions League semi-final on Wednesday \u2013 but before then they may just be keeping an eye on events at Turf Moor on Sunday.<\/p>\n