Premier League: West Ham 1-3 Liverpool - Back-to-back top flight wins for the Reds - Klopp's comments on Salah

Manager Jurgen Klopp called Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah a "world class player" as reigning English Champions Liverpool beat West Ham United 3-1 on Sunday 31 at the London Stadium.

Forward Mohamed Salah scores for Liverpool. Photo: @LFC

The visitors made it back-to-back Premier League wins in London - beating Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday 28.

Salah's two fine finishes in the second half gave Liverpool the lead and Georginio Wijnaldum made it three for the Reds in the 84th minute.

Three minutes later, Craig Dawson netted a consolation for the Hammers as the encounter finished 3-1 in favour of the visitors.

Back-to-back wins for Liverpool ⬇

Back to back away wins. Need to keep it going 💪🏻 pic.twitter.com/RFwou6caeb

— Jordan Henderson (@JHenderson) January 31, 2021

On Salah becoming the first player since Ian Rush to score 20 goals or more for four consecutive seasons for Liverpool…

Klopp answered: I’m not surprised. I work on a daily basis together with him and he will never stop having a massive desire for scoring goals. For sure not. He is a world-class player, there is no doubt about that. How I said in the last few weeks when we didn’t score that many, the only thing you can do is try and try and try again. You have to make good decisions, or better decisions. Tonight he didn’t force it. As I said, the first goal was a proper smart goal and in the last few weeks he probably would have tried to shoot through the legs or whatever, but this [tonight] was really keeping the overview and chipping the ball into the far corner. Top-class goal.

Mohamed Salah Liverpool record - 20 goals in four successive seasons ⬇

👑 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗚𝗬𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 👑@MoSalah has now netted 2⃣0⃣ goals in 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 successive seasons for us 👏⚽️ pic.twitter.com/1C58RYGhiT

— Liverpool FC (@LFC) January 31, 2021