Liverpool made it back-to-back victories to start the Premier League season with a 2-0 success over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Monday.
Goals in the final minutes of each half from James Milner and Sadio Mane respectively saw the Reds triumph from a match which was finely balanced for long periods.
The dismissal of Aaron Wan-Bissaka 15 minutes from time made the climax a little more comfortable for the Reds before the win was sealed with a trademark counter-attack.
Roberto Firmino was the only one of Liverpool’s front three not to get on the scoresheet in their opening-weekend thrashing of West Ham United and had the ball in the net on 22 minutes.
The Brazilian pounced on a Wayne Hennessey fumble to knock the ball home from close range but his strike was quickly ruled out for a foul by Mane, who had thumped into the Palace goalkeeper.
Liverpool should have gone ahead through an unlikely source when a cross from Milner reached Andrew Robertson at the back post, only for the Scottish full-back to blaze his volley from the penalty spot high over the crossbar.
Palace appeared to have done enough to keep the rampant Reds out until the break but a 44th-minute penalty allowed Milner to give the visitors a hard-earned lead as he buried his spot kick into the bottom corner.
Former Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho was the culprit as he had a couple of clumsy nibbles at Salah and invited the Egyptian to go down, albeit softly, as he looked to turn the Frenchman from Firmino’s pass to feet.
Salah had run clear on a Liverpool counter and the young full-back had little choice but to bring the Egyptian down on the edge of the box, with referee Michael Oliver deeming him to have denied a goalscoring opportunity.
Another lightning break from the Reds wrapped up three points in stoppage time, with Salah releasing Mane to round Hennessey and slot into the empty net for his sixth goal in eight league outings against the Eagles.