Salah penalty maintains winning run for Liverpool in victory

GIRONA: Liverpool maintained their 100 per cent record in this season’s Champions League with a 1-0 win at Girona on Tuesday, the only goal of the game coming from Mohamed Salah.

Girona suffered their fifth defeat of the competition but made Liverpool work for the victory and in the opening half had chances to take the lead but were foiled by the visitors’ keeper Alisson.

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Liverpool struggled against a side happy to sit back and soak up the pressure and break on the counter-attack, but found the breakthrough from the penalty spot with Salah converting in the 63rd minute after Luis Diaz was fouled.

A sixth win from six keeps Liverpool top of the league phase standings on 18 points, five ahead of Inter Milan who are in action at Bayer Leverkusen later on Tuesday, while Girona remain on three points in 30th place.