…Maintain six-points lead
Liverpool recorded a Premier League double over Ipswich Town following a 4-1 victory over the Tractor Boys at Anfield on Saturday.
Liverpool started their 2024/25 league campaign with a 2-0 victory away at Ipswich.
The Saturday win moved Liverpool six points clear at the top of the Premier League with an outstanding Merseyside derby against Everton that was postponed earlier due to bad weather.
The Reds scored three goals in the first half and looked like going eight points clear with a game in hand until 10-man Arsenal beat Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Cody Gakpo scored twice, while Dominik Szoboszlai and Mohamed Salah also netted as Liverpool comfortably saw off struggling Ipswich Town.
Ipswich were thrashed 6-0 at home by reigning champions Manchester City in their last outing and arrived at Anfield clearly determined to avoid a similar scoreline.
They barely offered any attacking threat as they sat deep to try to frustrate Liverpool, but their resistance lasted just 11 minutes as an incisive attack by the Reds opened them up, Ibrahima Konate threading a ball through to Szoboszlai, who drove a shot in at the near post.
Salah has accounted for the majority of Liverpool’s goals at Anfield, so it was no surprise when he got on the scoresheet 10 minutes before the break, firing into the roof of the net from a tight angle.
A third duly arrived just before the break when Szoboszlai’s shot was parried and Gakpo was on hand to turn in the loose ball.
The second half was largely a non-event with the damage already done, but Gakpo added a fourth when he powered in a header.
The travelling fans were given something to celebrate in stoppage time when Jacob Greaves headed home a consolation from a corner.
Ipswich remain 18th, level on points with Wolves in 17th in the Premier League relegation battle.
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