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Aston Villa held Liverpool to an entertaining 2-2 draw as the Reds stretched their lead to eight points clear at the top.

Liverpool took the lead when a dreadful error from Andres Garcia, on his first Villa start, allowed Diogo Jota to square for Mohamed Salah to fire home, before the visitors dragged themselves level when Youri Tielemans fired home.

Ollie Watkins when put Villa ahead as he headed home Lucas Digne's cross before the break, after which Jota struck the crossbar from range.

Trent Alexander-Arnold then fired Liverpool level with a deflected effort, before Reds substitute Darwin Nunez missed a glorious chance after being being found by Dominik Szoboszlai.

Marcus Rashford was making his first start for Aston Villa.

Mohamed Salah fired Liverpool ahead at Villa Park(

Ollie Watkins headed Aston Villa ahead just before the break.

Liverpool didn't start the second half all that well, and there were a couple of occasions when Villa could have extended their lead - most notably when Rashford rounded Alisson but couldn't finish from the range.

That might have been the incident which focused Liverpool minds, and soon enough it was the visitors who wrestled control of the game, winning a succession of corners before, as they took advantage of Villa's insistence on pushing forward, they equalised when Alexander-Arnold and Salah almost insisted the ball went over the line, with the former firing in via a deflection.

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So a chance to go 10 points clear is lost, and now it is Arsenal who have the tantalising advantage of a game in hand.

This difficult run of games was always going to present the chance for Liverpool to streak ahead, but Slot will point to just how hard these fixtures have been, with easier matches on the horizon after the meetings with Manchester City and Newcastle in the next week
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