Mohamed Salah achieves a new achievement on the night of Liverpool's victory over Everton and tightening the screws on Manchester City

Liverpool scored two goals in the second half to win 2-0 at its guest and rival Everton in the Merseyside summit, and become one point away from Manchester City, leaders in the English Premier League, on Sunday.

After Everton, who retreated to the drop zone before today's match, withstood an hour of play, Mohamed Salah penetrated from the right side and sent a cross that left back Andrew Robertson headed into a goal.

Substitute Divock Origi added the second goal with a header from close range after following up on a side kick from the other substitute Luis Diaz in the 85th minute.

Liverpool have 79 points from 33 games, one point behind leaders Manchester City, five rounds before the end.

Everton have 29 points from 32 games and are in 18th place, two points behind Burnley, 17th, who played 33 games and beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 earlier today.

And the "Skawaka" global network for numbers and statistics stated that Salah has now become the most goal-maker since he wore the Reds shirt, as our Egyptian star reached the 46th assist in the English Premier League.

Salah surpassed his colleagues Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson, as Salah scored 46 goals, while Arnold and Robertson provided 45 assists.

During the current season of the English Premier League, Mohamed Salah has 22 goals (the top scorer) and assisted 13 goals (at the top of the players who created the most goals).

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