After 12 minutes at the Etihad Stadium, and the next bright start of Manchester, Mohamed Salah collected a passage from Trent Alexander-Arnold and suddenly exploded from Nathan Ake, and putting the hosts on the back leg.
“It's the first time we've seen Liverpool's guy looking comfortable,” Gary Neville noticed on Ko-comment for Ko-Comment Sky Sports. It was a reminder, if necessary, that he didn't need much for Salah to turn into Liverpool's service.
Barely two minutes later, he scored his opener.
His goal, fired through the bodies after a well-treated corner routine, was his 241. At all competitions for Liverpool, putting him on a third in Gordon Hodgson in their all the intersets, behind the relative himself. It is an incredible body of work. But he was never very good.
A few players have. In fact, with the help of a second, Dominik Szoboszlai achieved, to add to his goal, Salah remains comfortably in the course the best season in the Premier League history.
It's just February and, with 25 goals and 16 helpers, Salah's combined a total of 41 places it behind the fist of players to involve goals in one season. He, of course, will be extremely breaking a record of 47, set Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole during the 42-Games Seasons.
Continue at the same speed and will end up at 58.
“This will eventually be the largest season we have ever seen from the individual, I don't doubt that,” he said Sky Sports Pudit dimiezi carragher after that.
“It's not just about whether it ends above these players, it might set the bar so high that no one can get there in the future. We see something special.”
Salah showed her complete repertoire at Etihad Stadium, delivering the largest phase and destroyed Manchester City for the second time this season. The first player is in the history of the Premier League to achieve and help in both matches against the champions for the ruling.
The numbers are stunning. Salah has now achieved and helps in 11 premiere games this season this season, most of one player in any of the best leagues in Europe from Lionel Messi for Barcelona in 2014/15. “He has a Messi and Ronaldo season,” Carragher added. “We're talking to Balcony D'Orsa,” Daniel Sturridge said.
“There are good players, and then there,” Neville added as Salah continued to deserted to another half. You wouldn't know how to watch him, he turns 33 in June 33.
His year is in the heart of the state between the club and player through his new contract, but it was just the latest performance that they showed that Salah acted on the absolute peak of his powers.
“He has always been strong, but he felt like this season, the way he holds a long-run-length ball better than ever,” said Neville while Salah did space for themselves in the middle of the light -blue T-shirt and sent Switching to a transverse terrain according to Curtis Jones.
That same blend of strength and calm was obvious in the proposal for the second goal of Liverpool while holding a guardiolist with obvious ease before sliding inside and feeding Szoboszlai.
Manchester City couldn't handle. Salah showed his usual relentless, burying his first shot at the target, although with the remeditor, but it was so much more for his effect.
It is brutally effective, but it is capable of subtlety. In the first half, he produced a brightly disguised loose pass to Trent Alexander-Arnold in the box. Its willingness and the ability to cross between the role of the shooter and service providers are among many qualities that separate it from the others.
And he also performed his duties with the ball. As Aleksandar-Arnold struggled to contain Jeremy Dock in the first half, Salah returned back to help, at a time that deals with Omar Marmoch and Doku in fast succession. He was there again even in the final phases, when the game looked safe.
Of course, this victory of Liverpool was not just because of salah. Just like Liverpool season, which now looks all but finish in the Premiere League celebrated, not just about Salachia.
Under the turn of Arne are still evolved and adapted to what is needed. The defeat in the Nottingham forest in September remains their only in the Premier League all season.
Just keep knocking points. At the Etihad Stadium, Neville described his display as “classic performance.” Salah inflicted damage, but Liverpool had only 34 percent of ownership as a whole. The way they defended their box, calm and cold, was another outcome key.
They even found a new avenium to score through the angle for Salah opening. Before Sunday, they ranked the common bottom among the premier sides for the goals for the sessions of this season with three. They found an improvement from one of the few areas where it was necessary.
“The best thing about these Liverpool's performance is that we conditioned more than six or seven to need philosophy, you have to play in one way,” Neville said. “This team can adjust and do three or four different things in the same half.”
And of course, they also know how to get the best out of your best player. “He is at the absolute gold in his career in which everything just feels so easy,” Neville of Salah said. “He's on the second level from anything else on that field.”
Another level, perhaps, any player in the history of the Premier League. The numbers that stand behind his amazing season certainly put it in that carrier. And, three months still goes, he has even more.
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“It was a moment that, however, he was in Liverpool, but when I look at him at the time, he was unbaked, and he was psychologically in the opponent's head.
“When you play against someone yes, you think,” Well, I'll break it, knock, go through him. “You can't, he's like a brick wall.
“That ball is played with him from 40 to 50 meters away from Alisson in the chest (for another goal), and he holds a Gvardiol, which is 6ft 3in, as if it were a little boy, and maybe I didn't see it in the past.
“Everything is so polished and so perfect and so slow, and when I say slow, I think that in the last third place is the place in the football field, but everything just feels so compiled and slow when it comes to the ball.
“You know that it will play a passage at the right time, it will be the weight of the passage, it will play the right cross, it will be effective in its shooting.
“It is absolutely on top of your game, it is a different level than anything else in the league this season in terms of their performance levels, and it is a world class.
“I won't take his contract, Liverpool will obviously be desperate to try and hold him, but he is one of the best players that the Premier League saw.
“When I looked at my career, especially in my title, when (Eric) Canton scored individual goals, and you just thought, that is the difference, which differs in the most sense of the season in which title on the line , where you play against the best teams'.
“Who will get you up and win a match for Liverpool. Today is the goal that achieves, help for others, honestly, that's what you want from world class players.
“It's the one who looks the world class. They appear in the highest moments, and he did it here in the city today.”