Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool avenged last season’s Merseyside derby despair with an imperious 4-1 victory over Everton at Goodison Park.
With Everton having taken four points off the then-reigning Premier League champions last term, and inflicted a season-altering injury to talisman Virgil van Dijk on Liverpool’s last trip across Stanley Park, the visitors used the 239th meeting with their rivals to ruthlessly exorcise some demons.
Captain Jordan Henderson curled Liverpool into the lead (9) before Salah put the visitors two up inside 19 minutes at a stunned Goodison, where a number of the home faithful sought an early exit
  Just three minutes were needed for the contrasting fortunes of the two Merseyside rivals to be underlined, as Liverpool created and then squandered two gilt-edged opportunities to make the dream derby start.
The returning Joel Matip steered a free header wide with barely 90 seconds on the clock before Salah got caught in two minds whether to attack Jota’s cross with his head or his boot, and ended up hooking another glorious opening over. But the misses were soon a distant memory for Liverpool.;
