With his side having emerged victorious by a tennis score, it is very much advantage Liverpool in the Premier League title race. Winning 6-3 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and becoming the first team in 27 years to net six away at Spurs, Arne Slot had plenty to be pleased about.

Luis Diaz got things underway and ended up with two goals, Mohamed Salah got a brace inside seven second half minutes, and Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai scored from midfield too. All round, it was a superb performance from an opponent Tottenham simply couldn't deal with on home turf.

Heading into the stadium, most in attendance would have been expecting goals. But with the home fans having witnessed seven midweek against Manchester United, ultimately coming out on top there, Liverpool was a different animal — with two thirds of the nine goals in this one going for the Reds. Quite simply, it should have been more.

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Top of the standings on Christmas Day by four points and still with a game in hand to play, Liverpool is in a fantastic position. Slot has said all season long that nothing should be spoken of the Premier League title race until 19 matches have been played — and had the Everton derby not been postponed, that would have been just two games away.

At this point, and from this position, Liverpool is a strong favorite to get itself over the line. The Reds haven't won the title on six of the last seven occasions that they were top on Christmas Day, but really should from here with Manchester City having fallen off a cliff and Arsenal playing catch-up.

Even from this point, though, Salah wants more. Scoring two wasn't enough for him as he looked frustrated to be taken off when he was on a hat-trick. And he wants the team to improve defensively too having let in three past a helpless Alisson Becker.

"We were quite good up front but defensively we need to improve as a team," he told Sky Sports post-match. "Conceding three goals is quite hard. It’s a good result, hopefully we just keep going."

Slot, no doubt, will not be too pleased with conceding three times. Ever the perfectionist, the Dutchman will be searching for reasons to play down his side's chances of silverware this season to take the pressure off. That is one obvious one after a game like this, even if few more this season are likely to be anything like it.

"For 60 minutes, we did everything we had to do," Slot said. "The main thing is we worked very, very hard. But then the same players with the same quality thought that 10 or 15 minutes of not working as hard was good enough."

And Salah is in agreement. "We expected [a chaotic game]," he said. "The way they play, they open the game, they enjoy their football, physically tough and mentally we always have to be in the game. They don't change much the way they play, it’s intense. City came here and struggled; other teams too. I'm happy we won because they play an intense game."

If Liverpool does get more defensively secure again as Salah demands — bearing in mind that it only conceded three goals in its first eight matches in the Premier League, so it clearly can do it — that would be a scarily potent combination. As it happens, the season is going pretty swimmingly regardless, even if it is wise to stave off any complacency.