Dominant Liverpool ease to win over Arsenal

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Liverpool opened up a three-point gap at the top of the Premier League with a 3-1 win over Arsenal which highlighted why the chasing pack are still so far behind them and Manchester City&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By their own admission Jurgen Klopp’s side had not been close to finding their best form in four matches this season but faced with the top flight’s only other team with a 100 per cent record&comma; they stepped up a couple of gears&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As if to make a statement they dismantled the Gunners&comma; who arrived at Anfield with a containment-first approach&comma; with a power game allied to clinical efficiency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"und" dir&equals;"ltr">🎯 <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;SkTewhr5pG">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;SkTewhr5pG<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Liverpool FC &lpar;&commat;LFC&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;LFC&sol;status&sol;1165315770668191744&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">August 24&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mohamed Salah&comma; with a penalty and a superbly-taken individual effort&comma; made it three for the campaign after Joel Matip’s first league goal in 11 months broke the deadlock just before half-time&comma; with substitute Lucas Torreira scoring a consolation five minutes from the end&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game started at a frenetic pace&comma; with the hosts setting a high tempo which penned Arsenal back in the final third&period; Within 80 seconds Andy Robertson had fizzed a ball across the six-yard area which Roberto Firmino only narrowly missed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unai Emery’s tactics were to defend deep with eight men behind the ball in an attempt to draw their opponents in before trying to release the explosive pace of £72million summer signing Nicolas Pepe&comma; given a full debut at the expense of Alexandre Lacazette&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; a flaw in the plan was that the Gunners never looked comfortable in possession in and around their own penalty area and regularly fell foul of Liverpool’s high press&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The worst example was when Dani Ceballos&comma; pinned in near his own corner flag&comma; cleared the ball straight to Sadio Mane 15 yards out only for the Senegal international to shoot straight at Bernd Leno&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the more Liverpool pressed the more Arsenal were presented with opportunities&comma; with Pepe having three chances and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reds goalkeeper Adrian&comma; fresh from his miskicking error which cost them a goal at Southampton last week&comma; came out of his area to clear but only found Aubameyang who lobbed the ball back past the far post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pepe’s best chance came when Jordan Henderson’s mistake on the halfway line allowed the Ivory Coast international to run past Robertson but in a one-one-one with Adrian he shot straight at the goalkeeper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It meant the game was far more open than the statistics of Liverpool’s supposed dominance – they had 14 shots in the first half – suggested&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the incessant pressure on Arsenal’s defence began to tell and after Salah held off Granit Xhaka to cleverly turn and fire wide&comma; the breakthough came&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From a corner Trent Alexander-Arnold finally found his range and Matip benefited from the space created by Virgil Van Dijk’s tangle with Matteo Guendouzi to power home a 41st-minute header&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mane should have done better with his header in injury time but if the interval was a period for Arsenal to clear their heads&comma; no-one told David Luiz who&comma; in a moment of madness four minutes after the break&comma; tugged on Salah’s shirt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Egypt international confidently dispatched the penalty and added a second by brilliantly converting a three-pass move which eliminated most of the opposition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Started by Adrian to Alexander-Arnold&comma; Fabinho then flicked forward an inviting ball allowing Salah to skip past Luiz with embarrassing ease 40 yards out and run into the penalty area before cushioning a shot inside the far post with his left foot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From that point it was an exercise in damage-limitation for the visitors&comma; 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