Bournemouth 0-4 Liverpool: Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez score twice as Reds extend Premier League lead
Report and free match highlights as Liverpool moved five points clear at the top of the table with a 4-0 win at in-form Bournemouth; Darwin Nunez opened the scoring four minutes after half-time, before Diogo Jota scored a double; Nunez finished the scoring in stoppage time
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Sunday 21 January 2024 19:24, UK
Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez scored two goals each as Liverpool extended their lead at the top of the Premier League table to five points by brushing aside in-form Bournemouth 4-0 on their own patch.
After a tense first half, which Bournemouth arguably shaded, Nunez netted his 100th career goal by finishing off a slick Liverpool move four minutes after half-time.
Jurgen Klopp then made another impactful substitution as Cody Gakpo came off the bench to set up Jota for the visitors' second goal on the break with 20 minutes to go, before the Portugal forward scored a clinical third 10 minutes later.
Then, with Bournemouth down to 10 men due to injury, Nunez finished clinically from Joe Gomez's cross to round off the scoring — as Liverpool showed there is life without Mohamed Salah,currently out with a back injury on Africa Cup of Nations duty with Egypt.
The only blot on the afternoon was a potentially worrying injury to Curtis Jones, who limped off in the latter stages just three days before Liverpool's Carabao Cup semi-final, second leg away at Fulham, live on Sky Sports.
But the manner of the result, with Bournemouth's Dominic Solanke kept quiet as well, was the latest example to prove why Liverpool — missing Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dominik Szoboszlai — are capable of taking the Premier League title away from Manchester City this season.
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