Liverpool beat Brentford 2-0 at Anfield in Premier League 2024-25
What's the story
Arne Slot clocked his second successive win in the Premier League 2024-25 season as Liverpool blanked Brentford 2-0 at Anfield.
Luis Diaz scored a 13th-minute goal before Mohamed Salah made it 2-0 in the 70th minute.
It was a dominating performance from the hosts, who looked well drilled, having kept two successive clean sheets.
Slot's Anfield debut was special. Here's more.
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Settling into the new home 🏠
— Premier League (@premierleague) August 25, 2024
Arne Slot's strong start continues as @LFC put in a strong performance at Anfield 🔴#TheKickOff | #LIVEBRE pic.twitter.com/R0JOHW4MKP
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Here are the match stats
Liverpool had 2.65 expected goals compared to Brentford's 0.36. The Reds managed 19 attempts with 8 shots on target. Brentford had two shots on target from 8 attempts. Slot's side had 43 touches in the opposition box and had 63% ball possession.
Summary
Liverpool get the job done
Diaz delivered in his 100th appearance for Liverpool since joining from Porto in 2022.
The Reds went ahead with a lightning break when a Brentford corner was cleared by Ibrahima Konate.
Salah set Jota away before Diaz scored. Both sides had key chances to score thereafter with Christian Norgaard spurning a glorious opportunity to equalize from a free header.
Salah won the game thereafter.
Salah
Salah races to 213 goals for Liverpool
Making his 351st appearance for the Reds, Egyptian star Salah has raced to 301 goal involvements.
Salah owns 213 goals and 88 assists for the Reds in all competitions.
Salah scored his 159th Premier League goal, including 157 for the Reds. He owns 70 assists as well (69 for Liverpool).
Duo
Key numbers for Jota and Diaz
Making his 166th Premier League appearance, former Wolves forward Jota clocked his 18th assist.
He is now involved in 76 Premier League goals (58 goals).
As mentioned, Diaz clocked his 100th appearance for the Reds. He owns 25 goals and 11 assists for Liverpool.
This was his 69th Premier League appearance. He owns 17 goals.
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Van Dijk: 100th Premier League appearance for Liverpool at Anfield
As per Opta, Virgil van Dijk made his 100th Premier League appearance for Liverpool at Anfield.
He has won 82 and lost just two of those (D16), with only Patrice Evra with Manchester United (263) picking up more points in his first 100 home games with a side in the competition than the Dutchman (262).
He kept 48 clean sheets in 100 Anfield matches.
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Massive records for the Reds
Slot has become the 3rd Liverpool manager to win his first two top-flight matches while also keeping a clean sheet.
Brentford have lost all four of the Premier League games against Liverpool at Anfield with the Bees' scoreline reading 0-9 on aggregate.
For the 6th time in Premier League history, Liverpool have kept two clean sheets in addition to winning their first two matches.