- Coutinho scores beauty (video)
- Firmino scores two
- Salah with two assists
- Reds out shoot Swans 20-6
Philippe Coutinho had a goal and an assist as Liverpool handled Swansea City 5-0 on Boxing Day at Anfield.
Roberto Firmino scored twice, and Trent Alexander-Arnold and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain also scored for the Reds, the latter goal a pretty nice one at that.
The win pushes Liverpool back into the Top Four, while Swansea City remains dead last.
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Liverpool went ahead in the sixth minute through typical Coutinho magic. Roberto Firmino took the ball away from Jordan Ayew, and Mohamed Salah cued up the Brazilian scorer for a vicious curler from well outside the 18.
The game’s next chance saw Ayew force Simon Mignolet into a save on a ninth minute header.
Young Swans striker Oliver McBurnie produced a couple decent moments for the visitors in the first half in a surprise start, though Mignolet wasn’t really tested by the Leeds-born 21-year-old.
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19 - Philippe Coutinho has scored 19 Premier League goals from outside the box - one more than Robbie Fowler and second only to Steven Gerrard (33) among Liverpool players. Gifted.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 26, 2017
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Salah took a cut pass from Firmino and worked around Federico Fernandez to test Fabianski in the 50th minute.
Firmino got his goal just over a minute later, running onto a Coutinho free kick and beating Fabianski to his right.
Alexander-Arnold ran onto a blocked shot and burst his shot past a flailing Fabianski to make it 3-0, before Firmino and Oxlade-Chamberlain supplied the final markers.