Talking points: Thiago's moment, Alisson saves and the race continues

Liverpool are looking up the table again after boosting their top-four ambitions with a 2-0 win over Southampton at Anfield on Saturday night.

Goals in either half of the Premier League clash from Sadio Mane and Thiago Alcantara – plus a number of important interventions by Alisson Becker – secured three much-needed points for Jürgen Klopp’s Reds.

Here are five talking points from the evening…

The top-four race continues

Liverpool’s gap to the Champions League qualification places has been reduced to six points after they capitalised on Leicester City’s defeat on Friday night.

The Reds had to dig deep to do so and, having conceded late equalisers when winning 1-0 in each of their previous two…