Liverpool secured a thrilling 3-2 victory over Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Saturday, with Mohamed Salah scoring the decisive goal at Anfield.<\/p>\n
Despite scoring twice through Diogo Jota, Liverpool were pegged back twice by former player Neco Williams and Morgan Gibbs-White. However, Salah\u2019s 183rd goal for the club, which put him on level terms with Robbie Fowler\u2019s record, secured the three points for the Reds with 20 minutes left on the clock.<\/span><\/p>\n Liverpool\u2019s victory closed the gap on fourth-placed Newcastle United to six points, though they have played one more game than their rivals, while Forest remains in the relegation zone.<\/span><\/p>\n Both teams had opportunities to score in the first half, with Keylor Navas making a tremendous reflex save in the 26th minute to deny Virgil van Dijk\u2019s close-range header.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Williams made a crucial save on the line to stop Cody Gakpo from scoring. However, Liverpool broke the deadlock two minutes into the second half. After Forest failed to clear a corner, Fabinho headed the ball back into the danger zone, and Jota flicked the ball into the net.<\/span><\/p>\n Forest responded four minutes later with a sweeping move that saw Gibbs-White find Williams, whose shot deflected in via Andrew Robertson.<\/span><\/p>\n Liverpool regained the lead within four minutes, with Jota scoring his second goal after taking advantage of poor defending to control his free-kick and drill a volley past Navas. The former Real Madrid goalkeeper made a brilliant save to prevent Jota from scoring a hat-trick.<\/span><\/p>\n Still, Forest managed to level the score again when Gibbs-White\u2019s volley deflected off Trent Alexander-Arnold and into the bottom corner.<\/span><\/p>\n Salah\u2019s goal came 20 minutes before the final whistle when he reacted quickly to steer Alexander-Arnold\u2019s free-kick into the net. <\/span><\/p>\n Despite substitute Brennan Johnson\u2019s attempt to rescue a point for Forest by hitting the crossbar, Liverpool held on for the win.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Liverpool secured a thrilling 3-2 victory over Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Saturday, with Mohamed Salah scoring the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}