Liverpool enter last 16 after win in Salzburg.

Liverpool celebrate Naby Keita's goal against Salzburg

Liverpool progressed to the knockout stages of the Champions League as Group E winners following a 2-0 victory over FC Salzburg in Austria.

Two objectives in 100 second-half seconds from Naby Keita and Mohamed Salah demonstrated to be the contrast between the different sides, who both got an opportunity of the movement heading into the experience at the Red Bull Field.

The game could have been unique however had the hosts taken one of their six endeavors on objective during the principal half, with the forward team of Hwang Hee-Chan and Erling Braut Haaland demonstrating to be a bunch for the Reds' resistance.

They were rebuffed for neglecting to locate their clinical edge as two strikes with hardly a pause in between totally changed the composition of the tie.

Keita's header from short proximity was trailed by Salah's completion from a practically incomprehensible edge to guarantee the safeguarding champions would enter the round of 16, while Salzburg drops into the Europa Group.

Liverpool rolled out three improvements from the side that won effectively at Bournemouth in the Head Group. Trent Alexander-Arnold, Georginio Wijnaldum, and Sadio Mane all returned into the firing line-up while Keita kept up his spot in midfield.

In spite of Jurgen Klopp settling on his most grounded looking XI, an electric climate demonstrated to be the flash for a speedy Salzburg start.

Virgil van Dijk needed to respond to two events inside the opening moment to deny both Hee-Chan and Haaland's chances to experience one-on-one.

Erling Haaland looks to dispossess Virgil van Dijk

The strikers were joined by the midfield in representing a huge risk from the hosts and Enock Mwepu's furious exertion from outside the zone was all around held by Alisson minutes after the fact.

It wasn't every one of the single direction traffic however and Salah had Liverpool's first exertion on objective inside the initial five minutes. He associated with a hurled ball forward from Dejan Lovren yet Salzburg goalkeeper Cican Stankovic did well to make the spare from short proximity.

The home side was happy to battle fire with fire and Salzburg's distracted beginning nearly brought about another objective with eight minutes on the clock. Hee-Chan and Takumi Minamino joined in a smooth passing move inside the region yet both were denied from short proximity by the Liverpool plug.

The fire subsided on a harshly chilly night on the German outskirt and the guests wound up developing into the game after the quick-paced opening trades. Perfect footwork from Mane constrained Stankovic into a spare and Alexander-Arnold's shot on the subsequent wound up high over the crossbar.

Salzburg kept on representing a danger however and the capable Haaland figured out how to show signs of improvement of Lovren with 25 minutes played. His low, determined strike from a tight edge inside the region was very much held by Alisson in what demonstrated to be the most obvious opportunity with regards to the challenge up until that point.

Erling Haaland's shot is saved by Alisson

The game kept on being a start to finish issue at the half-hour mark and a strange slip-up from Salah squandered an incredible open door for the Reds to proceed. Keita found the forward plain on the counter-assault however he could just scrape his shot well wide of the net.

In a dauntless first-half appearing, Mwepu showed how he was unafraid to attempt his karma from separation as they break drew nearer. His first-time shot from 35 yards out passed through traffic and into the arms of the Liverpool attendant.

In stoppage time, it was the turn of the guests to come quite close to opening the scoring. This time Salah discovered Keita inside the zone and the midfielder hoped to hang the ball over Stankovic from short proximity. As had been the situation all through the initial 45 minutes, the goalkeeper did well to make the spare.

The half-opportunity break in one way or another accompanied the score level at 0-0. There was an aggregate of nine shots on focus with the home side considering twice to be numerous as their rivals, yet neither could locate the rear of the net.

The break likewise observed Napoli 3-0 up in their home bind to Genk, which means it was basic that Liverpool left with at any rate a point to guarantee their European crusade proceeded.

Naby Keita fails to find the back of the net

Salah's poor completing persisted into the second half. Mane was the most recent to furnish the forward with an opportunity from short proximity yet he hit his shot over the crossbar under little weight. There was a case to be made that offside would have precluded it in a VAR check at any rate.

Minutes after the fact, Salah neglected to locate the net once more. In spite of the fact that this time, it could have been put down to phenomenal goalkeeping from Stankovic.

A through ball was diverted into the way of the Liverpool man who hoped to adjust the attendant at the edge of the territory. The Salzburg plug was alert however and avoided Salah getting any nearer as he pushed the ball away from his feet.

At the opposite end, the home side kept on looking perilous and Haaland was given another extraordinary opportunity to strike. He crashed into the case on his favored left side however struck the side netting.

In the 56th moment, the stop was at long last broken.

Salzburg was inclined to the counter-assault and that demonstrated to be their defeat. Andy Robertson associated with Alexander-Arnold's cross-field ball to play in Mane. He maintained a strategic distance from the handle and Stankovic's basic leadership let him down on a night where he had been so strong earlier.

He hurried out to shut down the forward who dinked in a cross for Keita to meet. His header was culminated set between three Salzburg safeguards to locate the rear of the net.