Wolves vs Liverpool: goals from Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk keep Liverpool top
Re-live the live action from the Molineux
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Your support makes all the difference.Liverpool moved four points clear at the top of the Premier League after Mohamed Salah inspired them to a deserved 2-0 win at Wolves.
The forward scored his 14th goal of the season before setting up Virgil Van Dijk's clincher in the second half at Molineux.
Jurgen Klopp's unbeaten Reds, who have conceded just seven goals in 18 league games this season, will now top the table on Christmas Day regardless of Manchester City's result against Crystal Palace on Saturday.
In eight of the last nine campaigns the team top at Christmas has won the league - except Liverpool in 2013. Re-live the live action below:
Welcome
Hello and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of Wolves vs Liverpool in the first of this week's Premier League action.
We'll have all of the build-up to the match at Molineux, starting with team news from around 7pm.
Both teams make two changes from the sides that played last weekend. Wolves bring in Romain Saiss and Adama Traore in place of Morgan Gibbs-White and Jota.
As for Liverpool bring back James Milner and Jordan Henderson as Nathaniel Clyne and Georginio Wijnaldum miss out.
After the first 17 games of the season Liverpool's haul of 45 points is their best at this stage of a top-flight campaign.
If they beat Wolves today and Newcastle on Boxing Day, they will have gone unbeaten against every team in the league by the halfway point.
Wolves have beaten Liverpool in two of the last five meetings, with both of those wins coming at Anfield - including in the FA Cup fourth round last year.
However Wolves are winless against Liverpool in four Premier League home meetings, with their only goal a 90th-minute equaliser from Kenny Miller in a 1-1 draw on 21 January 2004.
Jurgen Klopp has been speaking about Wolves, here's what he had to say:
"What they did last year in the Championship, I am not sure that happened too often.
"Very often you go up with this kind of old-school British football - it's a tough league and it makes sense to do it - [but] the only two teams [in] the last few years that did it differently were Huddersfield and now Wolves, so that's unbelievable.
"Then they brought in players again and needed a bit of time so that everything fits. Now they are really strong again, they won the last three; we have to go there and be at our best again."
15 minutes until kick off, can Liverpool win and stay top of the League at Christmas? Will Wolves cause another upset to a top six side?
Who's your money on?
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