liverpool beaten leeds 6-1 as cody gakpo's arguable opener supplied the spark for the reds' first win in 5 most reliable league video games on monday.
jurgen klopp's side took the lead at elland street when gakpo's goal become allowed to stand in spite of the ball hanging trent alexander-arnold's arm inside the build-up.
It become suggested the var reliable did not check the incident because it came about too far back within the circulate, but leeds had been furious at the perceived injustice.
mohamed salah rubbed salt into leeds' wounds whilst he improved liverpool's lead 4 mins later earlier than luis sinisterra got one again for the struggling hosts.
diogo jota's double, every other salah strike and darwin nunez's past due effort ensured liverpool ended their five-sport winless run in all competitions.
after coming within a whisker of winning a quadruple closing season, liverpool have been reduced to scrambling to reach subsequent season's europa league or europa conference league, with the champions league apparently out of reach.
with that target in thoughts, the eighth-positioned reds are actually inside factors of 7th-positioned brighton.
"it is the great game we have performed this season from all extraordinary views,"klopp said.
"my favourite component turned into within the 92nd minute whilst we chased the negative boy at the ball from leeds. the counter-urgent turned into the quality for, I need to say, many years!"
klopp has as compared fan complaint of liverpool doubtlessly now not making massive-cash transfers within the coming near-season as like a five-yr-vintage requesting a ferrari for christmas.
but at the evidence of this composed display and the latest fightback from two desires down to attract 2-2 with leaders arsenal, liverpool still have the principles in location for a return to prominence next time period.
"the second half of in opposition to arsenal became exceptional critical to us. We need to do what we did this night over and over,"klopp stated.
"i'm hoping those one-and-a-half of games offers us the right sign for the cease of the season.
"I would really like to see us with the same desire and ardour. this is the task, to deliver it always."
leeds crumbled once more eight days after their 5-1 domestic defeat against crystal palace and sit just two points above the relegation sector with seven video games left.
javi gracia's group had been booed off after becoming handiest the second club to concede 5 or extra home goals in successive most efficient League games.
rampant Reds
after marking the thirty fourth anniversary of the hillsborough catastrophe earlier than kick-off, liverpool fast seized the momentum before their doubtful opener inside the 35th minute.
alexander-Arnold blocked Junior firpo's skip along with his elbow before choosing out salah.
while salah exceeded again to alexander-arnold, the proper-lower back squared for gakpo to fit domestic from close variety.
leeds were fuming, only for var to opt against checking the incident no matter their protests.
gakpo's fifth goal for the reason that signing from psv eindhoven in January changed into followed by way of the modern-day example of salah tormenting leeds.
salah's 8th goal in six appearances towards Leeds came in ruthless style.
jota turned into allowed to enhance unchecked before slipping a skip to salah, who finished with unerring precision.
Ibrahima konate handed Leeds a aim in the forty seventh minute whilst the Liverpool centre-lower back allowed himself to be dispossessed by way of sinisterra on the edge of the location.
sinisterra gratefully well-known the present as he clipped his shot over the exposed alisson becker.
but leeds' comeback hopes have been extinguished inside 5 minutes as Curtis Jones' raking pass picked out jota, who drilled beyond Illan meslier from just in the region for his first league purpose in 12 months.
var did disallow a liverpool intention while salah's effort become dominated out for offside against virgil van dijk, but the rampant reds nevertheless bagged their fourth of the night inside the 64th minute.
gakpo took andrew robertson's pass and teed up salah for an emphatic end from six yards.
jota swept in jordan henderson's go after 73 minutes before nunez placed the very last flourish onliverpool's effective performance whilst he controlled alexander-arnold's bypass on his chest and fired home within the 90th minute.