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Salah's moment of brilliance puts the shine on Liverpool's win
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring his side's third goal of the game

Liverpool 3-1 Arsenal 
by James Nalton 
at Anfield

MOHAMED SALAH produced a moment of brilliance to seal a win for Liverpool against Arsenal on Saturday evening.

It put the shine on what was an enterprising, hard-working display from the home side who made all the running while Arsenal threatened on the counter-attack.

Joel Matip opened the scoring with a towering header from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s corner, before Salah won and converted a penalty after David Luiz tugged his shirt in the box.

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