Salah's 100th Anfield league goal as Liverpool march on
Liverpool have kept up their relentless charge towards the Premier League title by thrashing Ipswich 4-1 and remaining six points clear at the top.
Mohamed Salah scored his 100th league goal at Anfield and his 23rd overall this season in Saturday's stroll.
Second-placed Arsenal kept up the pressure as best they could by winning at Wolves 1-0, but third-placed Nottingham Forest were stunned by Bournemouth 5-0 in a hammering on the south coast.
In the day's late match, champions Manchester City continued their league revival, moving up to fourth by beating visiting Chelsea 3-1 after going behind in the third minute.
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Fourth-placed Newcastle came back from a goal down to beat Southampton 3-1, with Alexander Isak scoring twice.
Relegation-fighting Ipswich had never been expected to cause an upset at Anfield and they couldn't cope with the power of Arne Slot's league leaders.
Liverpool were in charge after just 11 minutes when Dominik Szoboszlai opened the scoring and Salah doubled the lead in the 35th, with Cody Gakpo scoring in the 44th and 66th before a late consolation from Jacob Greaves for Ipswich.
After blowing a two-goal lead against Aston Villa last week, Arsenal looked in danger of dropping more points at Wolverhampton when Myles Lewis-Skelly was sent off in the first half while the game was scoreless.
But the home side couldn't take advantage of the extra man at Molineux and were reduced to 10 when Joao Gomes was shown a red card in the 70th.
It took just four minutes for Arsenal to capitalise, with Riccardo Calafiori hitting the winner.
Forest have been one of the surprise stories of the league this term but Bournemouth have quietly been putting together an impressive run of their own.
Still, few would have expected such a spectacular result at Vitality Stadium, as Dango Ouattara struck a second-half hat-trick for Bournemouth in the 55th, 61st and 87th minutes. Justin Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo were also on target.
Isak took his season tally to 19 goals as Newcastle bounced back from last week's surprise defeat to Bournemouth with a win at last-placed Southampton.
At the Etihad, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden spared the blushes of new teammate Abdukodir Khusanov as Man City earned another important win in their renaissance.
Khusanov, the Uzbekistan defender signed from Lens in the week, made a nightmare start with an error that led to a Chelsea goal and a booking inside the opening four minutes.
Noni Madueke took full advantage of the mistake to put the visitors ahead but Josko Gvardiol equalised and the tried-and-trusted figures of Haaland and Foden settled the contest in the second half.
Newcastle went behind to Jan Bednarek's goal in the 10th, but Isak levelled from the penalty spot in the 26th and got his second four minutes later, with Sandro Tonali sealing the victory after the break.
David Moyes has made a quick impact at Everton after overseeing his second win in three games since returning as manager.
Iliman Ndiaye's penalty secured a 1-0 win at Brighton, which followed a victory against Tottenham last week.
Everton won only three times in the league under former manager Sean Dyche before Moyes was hired this month, returning to the club he led from 2002-13.
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