Mohamed Salah becomes fastest Liverpool player to reach 40 Premier League goals

The three points against Bournemouth, who stay 7th, also means that Liverpool have now made the third-best ever start to a Premier League season (42 points), with only the record-breaking Man City side of 2017/18 (46 points) and Jose Mourinho's Chelsea 2005/06 side (43 points) amassing more points after 16 Premier League matches.

Salah struck once in the first half and twice in the second in a fine individual performance that saw him move to 10 league goals for the season and put Liverpool top of the table as they won 4-0 at the Vitality Stadium.

Former Arsenal star Merson believes Liverpool FC will earn a 3-1 win at Bournemouth in Saturday's early kick-off. "He's had an awesome career, and I hope we're going to win something together", the Egyptian added.

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The England global will also miss next week's Champions League game against Napoli and the FA Cup third round game at Wolves.

Jürgen Klopp has insisted Daniel Sturridge is not a cheat and accused Sean Dyche of trying to deflect the focus away from the tackling row that erupted after Liverpool's win at Burnley this week.

It's the 2018-19 Premier League season and *surprisingly* Salah is still smashing it for Liverpool.