Mohamed Salah: We’re fighting for this title

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah scores past Man City goalkeeper Ederson on Sunday. Pic/Getty Images

Mohamed Salah said Liverpool are not giving up on the Premier League title after the Egyptian's strike in a 1-0 win inflicted Manchester City's first defeat of the season on Sunday.

The Reds are still 10 points behind City and 14 adrift of leaders Arsenal, but kickstarted their season with just a third league win of the campaign.

One game at a time for Mo

"Personally, I always love to play for a title," said Salah.

"In my head, I am going to fight for it, but we need to focus more and take one game at a time."

Jurgen Klopp was sent off in the closing stages as he lost the plot with the officials for refusing to award Salah a free-kick. But City were also left fuming at referee Anthony Taylor after he disallowed Phil Foden's strike early in the second half after a VAR review.

"This is Anfield," said City boss Pep Guardiola, who was targeted by coins thrown from the crowd in the aftermath of the disallowed goal.

"The referee spoke with my assistant and Jurgen before the game and said ‘Today I won't make soft fouls' and all the game was play on, play on, play on, except the goal we scored."

For all their achievements under Guardiola, City are still to master Anfield in front of a crowd as Liverpool's proud unbeaten home league record with fans in attendance dating back to 2017 goes on.

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Life ban for Liverpool fans

Meanwhile, Liverpool have pledged to ban for life fans found guilty of throwing coins towards Guardiola during Sunday's fiery Premier League clash against Manchester City at Anfield.

City manager Guardiola revealed he was a target for missiles hurled from the crowd after the visitors had a goal disallowed during the second half.

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