Liverpool moved to within four points of fourth-place Manchester United with a 1-0 win over Fulham in the Premier League on 🔯Wednesday.
Mohamed Salah’s 39th-minute penalty earned the Merseyside club a fifth str🌊aight league win to keep alive its slim hopes of Champions League qualification.
United has two games in hand over Liverpool. Third-place New𝐆castle leads Liverpool by six points with one game in han🐠d.
It was the first time Liverpool has won five successive matches since A𓄧pril last year.
Salah’s penalty, his second in consecutive games after back-to-back misses, took h⛦im to 185 goals for Liverpool, one behind club great Steven Gerrard. He also moved to fifth on Liverpool’s list of all-time league scorers with 136.
The breakthrough came afterꩲ Issa Diop t🍌ook down Darwin Nunez in the box.
Referee Stua𒀰rt Attwel🌱l pointed to the spot and Salah scored an identical penalty to the one against Spurs — blasted straight down the middle.
Alisson had to save from Carlos Vinicius to prevent an equalizer with 13 minutes remaining to keep Liverpool’s top four bid alive — even if ♓it the team is still relying on United or Newcastle to drop points.
