Liverpool vs Huddersfield LIVE: Five-star Reds thrash Huddersfield to return to top
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool's title destiny may still be out of their hands but they refuse to submit, with the 5-0 demolition of Huddersfield Town a reminder they are ready to pounce should Manchester City slip up.
The gap between top - the place occupied by Jurgen Klopp's side after this victory - and bottom could not have been more glaring as the visitors were outclassed at Anfield.
City, now two points behind with a game in hand, face a potentially tricky trip to Burnley knowing they cannot afford a mistake at this late stage of the campaign,
The relegated Terriers did themselves no favours after allowing Naby Keita to score after just 16 seconds, Liverpool's quickest Premier League goal and their 100th in all competitions this season. Relive all the action below:
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76 minutes
And he should return with a goal.
He chuckles to himself as he jogs away from a missed opportunity, a wry smile as he rues the chance.
It was a composed skip past the final defender but a very week left-footed shot from close range that Jonas Lossl had little bother dealing with.
A shame. Anfield would have erupted.
78 minutes
How has Sadio Mane missed?
It should have been a hat-trick of headers for Mane, again free at the far post as Xherdan Shaqiri cross from a loose ball, just not quite managing to keep the ball inside the post as he falls away while directing the ball goalwards, the effort rebounding away off the woodwork.
80 minutes
Dejan Lovren would be an unlikely source for the fifth but it is to his feet a free kick falls, trying an ambitious controlled slice across goal that he gets wrong. Struck cleanly enough, just completely the wrong direction.
81 minutes
Another Huddersfield change. Alex Pritchard for Jon Gorenc Stankovic.
GOAL! Liverpool 5-0 Huddersfield (Mohamed Salah, 82 minutes)
Five for Liverpool!
Another well-worked goal, Andrew Robertson bending his run brilliantly to wait for Xherdan Shaqiri to free him with a through pass, waiting for Mohamed Salah to arrive at the six-yard box and finding him with the square ball.
In Salah taps. Back to sole possession of the goalscoring crown, and on a hat-trick, along with Sadio Mane. If Liverpool get a penalty now it could be interesting.
86 minutes
So Liverpool will go to 91 points, and suddenly the goal difference discrepancy is not so weighted in Manchester City's favour, should a truly bizarre sequence of events occurring in these final games and the title comes down to it.
87 minutes
Both teams make their final changes.
Elias Kachunga for Isaac Mbenza.
Joe Gomez, another who has missed plenty of time with injury this season, on for Trent Alexander-Arnold at right-back.
89 minutes
Little fuss about Liverpool now. Jordan Henderson and Virgil Van Dijk play about five one-twos before finally utilising another teammate.
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