Tottenham vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League final score and result as Reds hold on for victory

Spurs 1-2 Liverpool: Mo Salah’s double was enough for the Reds despite Harry Kane pulling one back

Klopp: Politics mustn't come before football

Mohamed Salah cleverly fashioned one goal and was gifted another as Liverpool claimed a 2-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.

Salah opened the scoring after 11 minutes when he expertly controlled a pass from Darwin Nunez inside the area, turned and fired a low shot into the corner with his left foot. His second goal five minutes before half-time was a gift from Eric Dier who miscued a header from a kick downfield by Alisson and the Egyptian ran clear and dinked the ball past Hugo Lloris.

The hosts had their moments with Ivan Perisic hitting the woodwork in each half and they could have had a penalty when Ryan Sessegnon was bundled over by Trent Alexander-Arnold. After the break, Spurs raised their game, boosted by Dejan Kulusevski returning from injury off the bench. He had an almost instant impact as he fed Harry Kane who scored in the 70th minute

But Liverpool weathered the storm to claim the win and end a run of two Premier League defeats, leaving them eighth on 19 points after 13 games. Spurs slipped to fourth on 26 from 14.

Relive the action as Liverpool downed Spurs in the Premier League:

Tottenham vs Liverpool

• Victory sends Liverpool up to eighth, Spurs drop to fourth
• GOAL! 70’ - Kane pulls one back for Spurs (TOT 1-2 LIV)
• GOAL! 40’ - A mistake from Dier gifts Salah a second just before half-time (TOT 0-2 LIV)
• GOAL! 11’ - Salah converts Liverpool’s early dominance into the opening goal (TOT 0-1 LIV)

[6 November 2022 11:48 · Michael Jones]

Sterling vs Arsenal

Raheem Sterling has eight Premier League goals versus Arsenal - the only teams he has a better record against are Bournemouth and Watford, with nine goals apiece.

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[6 November 2022 11:44 · Michael Jones]

Contrasting form for Arsenal’s Gabriels

Gabriel Martinelli has five goals in 12 Premier League games this season and he is only one short of his highest figure in a single campaign.

In contrast Gabriel Jesus has failed to score in each of his eight most recent appearances in league and cup for the Gunners.

[6 November 2022 11:40 · Michael Jones]

Derby day specialists?

Mikel Arteta’s side have won all four of their London derbies this season. In 2021-22 they won five of 10 derbies in the league with one draw and four defeats.

(Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

[6 November 2022 11:36 · Michael Jones]

Will Aubameyang score against Arsenal?

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can become the second player, after Cesc Fabregas, to score for both Arsenal and Chelsea in Premier League matches between the clubs.

Aubameyang netted 68 times in 128 top-flight appearances for the Gunners between 2018 and 2021.

(Chelsea FC via Getty Images)

[6 November 2022 11:32 · Michael Jones]

Graham Potter highlights the importance of patience and perspective

Graham Potter highlighted the importance of patience as he settles into the head coach’s chair at Chelsea.

Potter’s top-flight tenure with Blues got off to a flying start with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace to begin October, the first of three consecutive Premier League wins for the former Brighton boss.

But their domestic form has been a mixed bag since, only managing to muster draws with Brentford and Manchester United before a disappointing 4-1 loss to his former club last time out.

Potter said: “If you look at Pep [Guardiola]’s first year, if you look at how long it took Jurgen [Klopp], I mean these guys are top, top people, but even they don’t just walk in and click the fingers and everything’s perfect.”

[6 November 2022 11:27 · Michael Jones]

Arsenal’s away form versus big six clubs

Arsenal have claimed victories in just five of their last 50 league games away to Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham.

Their victories over Tottenham and Liverpool this season came at home whilst they lost 3-1 against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

[6 November 2022 11:22 · Michael Jones]

Worrying signs for Chelsea

Chelsea have only won only one of their last 12 top-flight home games against the established top six clubs - a 2-0 victory versus Tottenham in January 2022.

Will they improve on that record today?

[6 November 2022 11:17 · Michael Jones]

Can the Gunners win the title?

Arsenal have won 10 of their 12 top-flight matches this season.

Only one of the 10 previous teams to win as often at this stage of a Premier League campaign did not go on to the win the title - Newcastle in 1995/96.

Is this Arsenal’s year?

[6 November 2022 11:12 · Michael Jones]

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s reunion with Mikel Arteta adds drama to pivotal London derby

“Arsenal, nothing personal,” said Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, in a message that quite beautifully made Sunday’s London derby all about the opposite. It was a pot that did not require stirring, but the line from Aubameyang playing in TV promotions this week has succeeded in stoking the flames among Arsenal fans ahead of the reunion with their former captain. “I’m back. I’m blue. I’m ready,” the Chelsea striker went on and, if you do take Aubameyang at his word that, for him, facing Arsenal isn’t personal, you can be assured his meeting with Mikel Arteta will be.

It can be hard to ignore the temptation to focus on the good, honest drama of a clash between a manager and an embittered former captain, even when Arsenal’s trip to Chelsea is also so much more. “There’s a narrative around him, I understand,” the Chelsea manager Graham Potter admitted. Resurfaced in the All or Nothing Amazon documentary, developed further in the emergence of leaked videos and fresh criticism, which in turn was met by thinly veiled digs, the fallout from the collapse of Aubameyang and Arteta’s relationship has so far been compelling ahead of its next chapter.

The fact that so much has changed since it began adds to the intrigue. As Aubameyang signed for Chelsea on deadline day and declared he had “unfinished business” in the Premier League, the idea of putting the brakes on Arsenal’s title challenge just as it was beginning to gather momentum was presumably not at the top of his mind. When he had left months earlier, he departed a side who were sixth in the table, which was their average position across his four years at the club. Yet as November rolls around, Aubameyang’s first encounter with his former side will be a test against the closest contenders for Manchester City’s crown.

[6 November 2022 11:07 · Michael Jones]

Chelsea vs Arsenal team changes

Graham Potter makes three changes from the team that started the 2-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League. Thiago Silva, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Marc Cucurella come in for Kalidou Koulibaly, Denis Zakaria and Ben Chilwell.

Arsenal make seven changes from the side that beat FC Zurich 1-0 on Thursday to clinch top spot in their Europa League group.

Only Aaron Ramsdale, Gabriel, Ben White and Gabriel Jesus stay in the side, with Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli the main players to come back in.