Sadio Mane scored his 100th Liverpool goal in a 3-0 win over Crystal Palace which sent Jurgen Klopp’s side three points clear at the Premier League summit.

Mane pounced on the rebound from Mohamed Salah’s header from a corner to reach his century for the club (43), while also becoming the first player in Premier League history to score in nine consecutive games against a single opposition.

“I am really happy for him he could reach it, a massive achievement in the glorious history of this club that only 18 players scored 100 goals,” Klopp said after full-time.

Both sides had come close to opening the scoring before Mane’s opener in a topsy-turvy opening at Anfield. Alisson turned Wilfried Zaha’s goalbound effort onto the post with less than two minutes gone, while Diogo Jota blazed over horrendously from four yards shortly before Mane’s goal.

Salah struck from another corner after losing Jairo Riedewald 12 minutes from time, and a stunning Naby Keita volley, from yet another, sealed victory late on (89).
Jurgen Klopp summed up Liverpool’s tricky afternoon after full-time by labelling the performance “one of the most hard-fought 3-0s” he had ever seen, with the result at Anfield telling far from the full story.