'The Wizard in the Blizzard' - the media on LFC 5-0 Watford

The Reds bounced back in style after the defeat at Manchester United last weekend, with the No.11 increasing his season tally to 36 goals.

Here is what the media made of his exploits, the game and more...

Andy Kelly, Liverpool Echo

Magic Mo. The Wizard in the Blizzard, said someone far more eloquent than me. A game that will simply be replayed through the ages and primarily due to the sheer joy that one diminutive Egyptian can bring to millions around the world. Four goals and it could have been even more. Liverpool's first league hat-trick under Jürgen Klopp secured and another added just for fun. The snow helped of course, it gave it that feeling of an event, a happening. Salah is that all by himself, a happening. He has been, well, out of this world for Liverpool this season. He's now got 36 goals in his first season at Anfield. He certainly looked to be playing on a different surface to most of the Watford defence within just four minutes. While Miguel Britos slipped and fell amid the mini-blizzard, Salah tip-toed his way past him and fired home with his right foot. Yes, 'right' foot! Just in case you missed it he repeated the dose a couple of moments before the break, slotting home Andy Robertson's perfect cross with that foot he usually only uses for standing.

Glenn Price, ESPN

Responding positively to defeats is part of Liverpool's DNA under Jürgen Klopp. Mohamed Salah's sensational performance against Watford on Saturday ensured that Liverpool maintained their record of having never lost consecutive games in the league under the German. A tough loss to swallow at Manchester United last weekend was followed up with the easiest of victories over Javi Gracia's side at Anfield - thanks in large part again to Salah's heroics. Salah's four goals - his first ever hat-trick for Liverpool - took his season's total to 36 goals in all competitions. And that wasn't his only contribution either, as he also provided the assist for Roberto Firmino's goal shortly after half-time. The records keep tumbling as a result of Salah's goal-scoring form, and Saturday's first strike saw him become the second Liverpool player in the past 22 seasons to reach the 25-goal mark in the Premier League. To put that achievement into context. Luis Suarez, whose 2013-14 campaign nearly propelled Liverpool to the title, is the other player.

Chris Brereton, The Guardian

This is getting ridiculous. In a season containing nearly as many superlative descriptions as goals scored, Mohamed Salah continued to write his own Liverpool destiny with four superb finishes in a personal performance at Anfield that was as complete and as ruthless as anything this famous stadium has seen down the decades. Watford will have returned home last night wondering how they were on the end of such a sobering scoreline. They were by no means a shambles. Yet, in sport, ability generally finds a way of shining through and Salah's class is so clearcut, so emphatic and so enjoyable that he is comfortably the Premier League's most attractive sight at present. The really frightening thing was he barely broke sweat - his goals completely dismantled Watford yet he maintained a relaxed, smiley air throughout. Two of his goals carried the same jinking manner and positional nous as that displayed by Lionel Messi, and Jürgen Klopp noted that Salah's form this season is making comparisons between the two increasingly valid.

Simon Hughes, Independent

Liverpool have at the very least nine games left to play. If they reach the Champions League final it will be twelve. From here then at this rate and this state of almost permanent form - at the very least - it would be a surprise if Salah did not reach 40. In doing so, he would become the first Liverpool player since Ian Rush in 1987 to reach the landmark. Rush, of course, is Liverpool's all-time leading goalscorer, though Rush played in Liverpool's greatest team and this is not quite Liverpool's greatest team - though a very, very good team nevertheless. If there was a temptation to fall into a slump after last weekend's defeat to Manchester United and think, 'typical Liverpool,' it is worth remembering that typical Liverpool is now a team that responds to set-backs by finding the right result in the next game. Watford might have little to play for because their position in the league is comfortable. Yet if Liverpool consider their place in next season's Champions League secure already they are not showing it. There was an appetite about this performance and a confidence that reassures absolutely they are a side heading in the right direction.

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