Overview
- Brentford struck after five minutes from Michael Kayode’s long-throw routine, with Dango Ouattara hooking in after a near-post flick.
- Kevin Schade made it 2-0 before Milos Kerkez pulled one back in first-half stoppage time; Mohamed Salah scored in the 89th minute after Igor Thiago’s 60th-minute penalty restored a two-goal cushion.
- The restart was delayed when referee Simon Hooper suffered a hamstring injury and was replaced by Tim Robinson for the second half.
- VAR ruled Virgil van Dijk’s foul on Ouattara occurred on the penalty-area line, upgrading a free-kick to a penalty that Thiago converted for 3-1.
- Liverpool slipped to sixth with a fourth straight league defeat that could leave them seven points off top by Sunday, Brentford rose to 10th, and Alexander Isak missed out with a groin problem.