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Arne Slot’s side extended their lead at the top of the table with a hard-fought win at St Mary’s. Find the best facts and Opta data from the game with our Southampton vs Liverpool stats page.

Liverpool survived an almighty scare against Southampton, the team bottom of the table, before securing a win that extends their lead at the top of the Premier League to eight points.

Following Manchester City’s defeat to Tottenham on Saturday, Liverpool had the chance to take advantage at St Mary’s a day later, and they just about managed to do so but they didn’t have it all their own way.

The game began in a predictable pattern, as Liverpool dominated proceedings and created the bulk of the chances, but it was through a massive helping hand from their opponents, who are too often caught playing out from the back, that they took the lead.

It was a catalogue of errors from the hosts that led to Dominik Szoboszlai opening the scoring, with a goal means no team has scored more goals following high turnovers in the Premier League this season than Liverpool (four), while only Brentford (six) have conceded more such goals than Southampton (five).

It then looked like Liverpool would go on to secure the comfortable win most expected them to. This was the 40th occasion that top had faced bottom in the Premier League era, but only four of those games have ended in a shock win for the last-placed side.

Southampton did make it difficult for Liverpool, though, and at one point looked like they might add to that list. They equalised through Adam Armstrong from the follow-up from his own missed penalty, and then took a surprise lead when Mateus Fernandes slotted home 10 minutes into the second half.

However, Liverpool were then able to turn to their talisman, Mohamed Salah, who levelled the game after racing onto Ryan Gravenberch’s fine through ball before sending Liverpool in front from the spot. He now has at least four more goal involvements (16) than any other player in the Premier League this season.

Liverpool held on to win, and Arne Slot equalled the record for the fewest games needed by a manager to reach 10 Premier League wins, after reaching that landmark in just 12 matches (level with Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti).

Now eight points clear at the top of the table, Slot’s Liverpool are surely the team to beat.

Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Southampton vs Liverpool stats from their Premier League meeting at St Mary’s.

The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.

Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well. 

Southampton vs Liverpool: Selected Post-Match Facts Arne Slot has won 10 of his 12 Premier League games in charge of Liverpool (D1 L1), the joint-fastest any manager has reached double figures for wins from the start of their career in the competition (Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti also 12th game). Southampton have lost 10 of their 12 Premier League games this season (W1 D1), the earliest into a league season Saints have ever hit double figures for defeats. Indeed, Saints are just the eighth side ever to lose 10+ of their opening 12 matches of an English top-flight campaign. Mohamed Salah became the first player to score in five successive Premier League appearances for Liverpool since the Egyptian himself in October 2021 (7 in a row). Salah’s second goal today was his 100th away from Anfield for Liverpool in all competitions.

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