ANFIELD, LIVERPOOL // Liverpool remains six points clear in the Premier League title race after Dominik Szoboszlai sent it on its way to a comfortable 4-1 win over Ipswich Town.

Within 11 minutes, Szoboszlai had opened the scoring with a well-taken low finish into the corner with his left foot. By half-time, Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo had given Liverpool a three-goal advantage and Ipswich was yet to have a shot.

Gakpo added a fourth in the second half and Alisson Becker made a good save that looked to be giving him a clean sheet until Jacob Greaves netted late on from a corner. Here are the five things Liverpool.com spotted as the game unfolded.

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Dominik Szoboszlai superb

Szoboszlai, operating as the Liverpool number 10, was excellent again here. When he has played for the last few weeks, either side of suspension and illness, the Hungarian has been superb. He still needs to add more goals and assists to his game but he couldn't have done much more here. He opened the scoring and then created plenty for his teammates with a couple of balls flashed across the box.

Clearly the number one pick in his position this season, Szoboszlai has another level or two to reach in a Liverpool shirt. On this evidence, he is still heading very much in the right direction. Relentless out of possession, he matched that on the ball here as well.

Andy Robertson solid

Is there a number-one choice for Liverpool at left-back at the moment? Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas have played a similar share of the minutes so far in the calendar year of 2025, with neither taking the battle by the scruff of the neck.

Here, Robertson got the nod and he did a solid enough job of showing why he was used. There was nothing specular going forward from the number 26 but he was part of a defense that gave nothing away.

Ipswich's attacking threat was extremely limited but with the likes of Liam Delap, Omari Hutchison and Jaden Philogene lining up for Kieran McKenna's men, that wasn't down to a lack of quality. It was simply down to Liverpool being so superior.

Luis Diaz call proven right

Darwin Nunez, who is likely to start midweek in the near-dead rubber at PSV having not done so here, returned to the bench again when the most important fixture of the week took place. His heroics off the bench at Brentford don't appear to have changed his role, with his limited impact in the Champions League summing up his inconsistency.

Luis Diaz was preferred as the central striker with Liverpool going with the Colombian slightly out of position ahead of its record signing. Even against a low-block defense, it seemed to work, with Diaz and Szoboszlai easily finding pockets of space and Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah coming inside.

Diaz's influence through the middle has been questioned at times lately — and with Diogo Jota injured for a few weeks, there will be more chances for Nunez, without a doubt — but he was the right choice here. Liverpool won with ease with his movement pulling the Ipswich backline all over the place, including for the goal that set the Reds on their way.

Pure control for Arne Slot

This was, in many ways, exactly what Arne Slot has been trying to implement at Liverpool since he arrived. In the lesser games, complete dominance is the aim, and here it was achieved.

Alisson Becker's goal was not threatened until the Ipswich consolation and Liverpool had more than 70 per cent of the ball. For large spells of the second half, 21 out of the 22 players on the field (Alisson excluded) were inside the Ipswich defensive third: the very definition of penned in.

Manchester City might have scored more goals past Ipswich this time last week but Liverpool was professional, in control, and never needed to leave second gear. Do that a few more times this season and fighting on multiple fronts might just be realistic.

Premier League title latest

On this rare occasion, both Liverpool and Arsenal — the top two in the Premier League heading into this weekend — both kicked off at the same time. Liverpool won with ease at Anfield, while the Gunners, missing captain Martin Odegaard through illness, just about won against Wolves at Molineux. Myles Lewis-Skelly was sent off just before half-time before Riccardo Calafiori's winner.

That six-point gap at the top of the table remains, though, now with one fewer match to go. Liverpool needs routine wins where it can collect them because of its incredibly congested fixture schedule. Not needing to win with goals in stoppage time or by going full pelt in the second half could become a huge advantage as and when it is possible. That, certainly, was the case here.