Ranking the best five Liverpool goals of the season so far, including Mohamed Salah stunner

Liverpool have scored some exceptional goals this season already, but which goals have made our top five in the first half of the season? We take a look at the best.

Liverpool have scored a lot of goals this season. A lot.

In fact, Jürgen Klopp’s players have scored more than 70 goals in all competitions in the opening four months of the campaign.

Moreover, they are coming from all directions and in various styles, there’s scant a type of goal Liverpool haven’t scored this season.

Liverpool.com have decided to whittle 70 of said goals down to the best five of the season so far. The list of course is entirely subjective, of course.

For the sake of variety, we have only allowed one player one entry, otherwise we could make a top five based purely on Mohamed Salah alone!

If you don’t agree with our choices, let us know in the comments section below.

This clash between the two best sides in the league had been eagerly awaited. Liverpool struck first through Sadio Mané after a wonderful assist from Salah late in the first half.

Not wanting his strike partner to claim all the glory. Salah put Liverpool back in front after Phil Foden had equalised in the 68th minute with a smart finish.

Salah picked up the ball on the periphery of the City box, he danced past João Cancelo, Bernardo Silva and Foden in a tight area before sending Aymeric Laporte to the shops as he advanced into the City box with a neat dummy. Salah then struck the ball from an angle with his right foot and watched it fly into the opposite corner of the City goal, sending Anfield into mass hysteria.

It will be difficult for the Egyptian to top that goal this season.

Trent Alexander-Arnold vs Newcastle

The purest strike of a football we will see all season? Trent Alexander-Arnold couldn’t have hit the ball any sweeter than he did in the 3-1 win against Newcastle.

Liverpool were coasting to another win. Newcastle had offered little resistance or much of anything, really. With the game winding down and only three minutes remaining on the clock, Roberto Firmino teed up the right-back some 25 yards from the Newcastle goal.

Alexander-Arnold was, bizarrely, on the left-hand side of the pitch. He took one touch to set the ball and the second touch was sheer power. The ball rocketed, in the truest sense of the word, into the top corner of Martin Dubvraka’s goal, giving him absolutely no chance of saving the ball.

It was such a pure, clean, crisp strike, and in many ways encapsulates Alexander-Arnold’s unique technique with a football.

Thunderous.

Naby Keïta vs Atlético Madrid

The Guinean had such a strong start to the season before injury curtailed his form. Keïta was also getting in among the goals with a fair bit of regularity in the earliest part of the season.

He scored two stunning volleys, but only one of them is included in our list. While the one against Crystal Palace was brilliant, the one against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League was slightly better, given the difference in the quality of goalkeeper between Jan Oblak and Vicente Guaita, with all due respect to the latter.

Alexander-Arnold’s deep cross was only half-cleared by the Atleti defence, the ball is headed in the direction of Keïta, who is stationed on the edge of the box. Keïta launches a first-time volley that cannons into the corner of Oblak’s goal.

His goal gave Liverpool a 2-0 lead in the Spanish capital, which would eventually end in a 3-2 win.

Diogo Jota vs Arsenal

This goal is all about the movement of the Portugal international. This isn’t on the list due to technique or power or a fantastically worked goal, this is simply about Jota’s ingenuity and the effects of Liverpool’s relentless pressing.

Liverpool were 1-0 up against The Gunners when Nuno Tavares decided to attempt to carry the ball out of his half. Liverpool swarmed around the left-back, and he panicked, passing the ball straight to Jota on the edge of his own box.

Jota then sent Arsenal defender Ben White sprawling with a magnificent dummy, before rounding goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale and stroking the ball home into an empty net.

It was a remarkable show of composure from Jota, and it was further evidence of the damage Liverpool can do from pressing so high up the pitch.

Thiago Alcântara vs Porto

The technique on this goal from Thiago is simply outrageous. Even now, we still don’t know if the ball hit the turf en route to the bottom corner of the Porto goal.

The goal has been watched time and again, and still, we can’t say for sure. If Thiago could ever score a goal that encapsulates his manipulation of a football, it’s this one.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s whipped free-kick is headed out by Porto and the ball lands at the feet of the Spaniard. Thiago gets his body over the ball and hits it first time, putting outrageous levels of bend — but controlled bend — as it arrows into the corner of the goal.

It’s a goal you could watch a hundred times and never get bored of it. It’s just a gorgeous goal, and not just one of the best of the season, but likely the best of Thiago’s career.

Golazzo.