<a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/liverpool" target="_blank">Liverpool</a> kept their outside shot at Champions League football next season alive as Diogo Jota scored twice in a 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest. Liverpool thrashed Leeds 6-1 on Monday to rekindle their hopes of a late challenge for a top-four finish but made heavy work of overcoming a Forest side that had scored just five away goals all season prior to their visit to Anfield. Jota had not scored for a year prior to netting twice at Elland Road earlier in the week, but now has four goals in a week. All of Liverpool's goals came from set-pieces as they exposed some shocking Forest defending. <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/football/2023/04/22/diego-jota-and-mohamed-salah-on-target-as-liverpool-hold-off-forest/" target="_blank">Jota twice put the Reds in front early in the second half</a>, but Forest hit back through deflected efforts from Neco Williams and Morgan Gibbs-White. However, the visitors twice conceded within three minutes of getting level as <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/mohamed-salah" target="_blank">Mohamed Salah</a> swept home Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick for the winner 20 minutes from time. Liverpool move up to seventh and within six points of fourth-placed Newcastle, who host Tottenham on Sunday. Forest slip to second bottom, one point adrift of safety.