Mohamed Salah acknowledged the experience of winning his second Premier League title with Liverpool was "100%" better than the first, following their 5-1 rout of Tottenham. 

Salah was one of eight Liverpool players in the current squad that lifted the crown in 2019-20, a victory that was celebrated under the shadow of the Coronavirus pandemic. 

But with fans in attendance at Anfield on Sunday, Arne Slot's team knew a point was all they needed to seal a 20th top-flight title, which would see them go level with rivals Manchester United for the joint-most by any side. 

While Dominic Solanke's 12th-minute header threatened to spoil the party, Liverpool quickly got their celebrations back on track with three first-half goals to stun Spurs. 

Luis Diaz restored parity on Merseyside four minutes after Ange Postecoglou's side had taken the lead, before Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo got in on the act. 

And so often as he has done this season, Salah had to have his say. The Egyptian cut inside from the right-hand side, before rifling the ball beyond Guglielmo Vicario. 

A Destiny Udogie own-goal rounded off a perfect day for Liverpool, with Salah's 28th Premier League goal of the season putting him in the history books. 

Indeed, Salah became the Premier League's top-scoring foreign player after surpassing Manchester City's Sergio Aguero with his 185th goal in the competition. 

The 32-year-old, who signed a new two-year contract with the club earlier this month, has now won nine major honours with Liverpool, but said his latest trophy was undoubtedly his most special. 

"It is incredible to win this with our fans," Salah told Sky Sports. "This is 100% better than last time [in 2020], especially with the fans. We have a different group now, so to show we can do it again is something special.

"Watching the Arsenal-Crystal Palace game, I didn't want to win it then. I wanted an experience we hadn't had before."

Salah is also now fifth on the Premier League's all-time scoring list, behind Andrew Cole (187), Wayne Rooney (208), Harry Kane (213) and Alan Shearer (260).

He ended a four-match scoreless run to take his overall goal involvement tally to 46 (28 goals, 18 assists), one shy of the single-season record, held jointly by Cole (for Newcastle United in 1993-94) and Shearer (for Blackburn Rovers in 1994-95), both of whom managed 47 in the 42-game campaigns.

Salah put these improved attacking returns down to a change of role under Slot.

"Now, I don't have to defend much. The tactics are quite different," he explained. "I said: 'as long as you rest me defensively, I will provide offensively', so I am glad that I did. He listened a lot and you can see the numbers.

"When you play in the Premier League, you have to defend, but I said that I can gamble, and somehow I can make a difference. My number of assists shows that; you can create chances as well."