Salah double sends Liverpool 8 points clear in Premier League as United draws first game with Amorim
Associated PressIt has been more than 30 years since a team held as big a lead as Liverpool after 12 rounds of the Premier League. “It’s nice to have this position,” the Liverpool manager said Sunday after Mohamed Salah’s second-half double inspired a 3-2 come-from-behind win at Southampton, “but we are definitely not getting carried away.” Only Manchester United’s class of 1993-94 — under Alex Ferguson — has had a larger lead than Slot’s Liverpool at this stage of a Premier League campaign. But after a draw, you never feel the good things.” SALAH TO THE RESCUE Salah moved onto 10 goals for the league campaign, second behind Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, and Liverpool now has 10 victories in 12 league games. “We just need to continue and not think where the other teams are.” AMORIM’S TWEAKS For his first match with United, Amorim started with a 3-4-3 formation — picking Rashford as the sole striker and Amad Diallo, a winger, as one of the wing backs. That surely won’t happen this season — United is in 12th place, already 15 points behind Liverpool.