Wolves 1-2 Liverpool: Quietly impressive defending, Jota summed up

Diogo Jota put on a curate's egg of a performance while Ryan Gravenberch shone again as Liverpool beat Wolves.

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Liverpool moved top of the Premier League as they claimed a hard-fought 2-1 win over Wolves at Molineux.

The Reds took the lead at the end of an evenly contested first half as Ibrahima Konate headed home, but they were pegged back early in the second when a mistake from the Frenchman was punished by Rayan Ait-Nouri.

However, Mohamed Salah grabbed the winning goal soon after, smashing home a Diogo Jota-won penalty.

Read on for the key talking points from the match.

Worrying signs? Or sign of champions?

Whether you are a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty kind of person, this game had something for you.

For the pessimists, a sloppy performance at Molineux will serve as proof that Liverpool don’t quite have it in them to challenge the likes of Manchester City and Arsenal this season.

The optimists, meanwhile, will point out that winning when not playing your best is exactly what champions do.

As ever, the reality sits somewhere in between: the Reds have made a fine start in terms of results and have also performed well at times, but they also need to a pass a few important tests in the coming months to establish just how good they are.

Either way, the best place to be when considering that fact is surely on top of the Premier League.

Jota summed up by match-winning display

As the game moved into first-half injury time here, Jota had won 0/4 ground duels, taken zero shots, created zero chances and completed zero dribbles.