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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24114668" data-attributes="member: 158020">Brighton and Hove Albion 0 Liverpool  1: Salah holds nerve to get Reds back on track  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/12/16/8438886-0-image-a-83_1547309696038.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Mohamed Salah won and converted a decisive 50th-minute penalty as Liverpool  returned to winning ways with a hard-fought 1-0 victory at Brighton and Hove  Albion.   Title rivals Manchester City trimmed the gap at the summit to four points  when they beat the Reds' 2-1 last week and a much-changed XI were then knocked  out of the FA Cup by Wolves.    But Jurgen Klopp's men restored a seven-point advantage thanks to the  excellent Salah, having bided their time in the face of an often-impeccable  defensive display from Brighton.   City host Wolves on Monday, by which time Tottenham will have had the chance  to conquer Manchester United and close to within six of Liverpool.Fabinho was  deployed as an emergency centre-back for the visitors and his raking pass  allowed Andrew Robertson to deliver a teasing cross from the left, with Roberto  Firmino unable to slide home.   Room for Liverpool's attacking players to operate between a compact Brighton  defence and midfield was sparing, but Sadio Mane engineered some in the 27th  minute for Trent Alexander-Arnold to whip into the box and Xherdan Shaqiri to  glance just wide.Jordan Henderson found space for Liverpool's next headed  attempt as Lewis Dunk made the block.   Salah escaped the shackles to force a save from David Button early in the  second half and a jinking dribble from the Egypt star moments later drew a  clumsy foul from Pascal Gross.Button guessed correctly but was beaten for  power.   Fabinho's first significant piece of defensive work came before the hour when  he blocked from Gross, while Alisson took no chances in pushing Jurgen Locadia's  speculative attempt around the post.    Georginio Wijnaldum lashed just wide 10 minutes from time and Salah  uncharacteristically missed from close range when set up by substitute James  Milner, but his earlier intervention proved to be enough.</blockquote>

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