The numbers speak for themselves. Mohamed Salah does not only make hay against the Premier League’s lesser lights, he routinely ­damages Liverpool’s rivals in the so-called Big Six. And so it was here. Yet again.

The first half had been a story of Bukayo Saka’s excellence for ­Arsenal. He scored a wonderful opener and, after Virgil Van Dijk had helped Liverpool back up from the canvas, there was a first Arsenal goal for Mikel Merino, the summer signing from Real Sociedad.

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