Five English sides will qualify for next season's Champions League and fifth-placed Liverpool strengthened their case with a 2-0 home win against Fulham, easing the heat on manager Arne Slot.

Teenager Rio Ngumoha scored his first goal at Anfield in the early evening match to put the Reds ahead, whipping his shot around the diving Bernd Leno after a jinking run.

The recalled Mohamed Salah, departing at the end of the season, doubled Liverpool's lead shortly before half-time with an arrowed finish.

It was the only the Egyptian's sixth Premier League goal of the campaign after he netted 29 in last season's title-winning campaign.

Heavy defeats by Manchester City in the FA Cup and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League have piled the pressure on Slot, who had celebrated just two wins in eight games in all competitions before Saturday's match.

"It's a better place than it was two or three days ago or a week ago," the Dutchman told Sky Sports. "But it's also not that after we win all of a sudden everything is good again.

"We've played many games like this this season but they've not always led to a win. We've deserved to win, not by a big margin, but we deserved to win."

Liverpool, who face PSG in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday with a 2-0 deficit, now have 52 points, four clear of Chelsea in sixth place.

Brentford and Everton, both with a chance to qualify for the Champions League, drew 2-2.

Brentford's Igor Thiago scored twice, taking his tally for the season to 21 Premier League goals, within one of Erling Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot.

Brighton's Mats Wieffer scored twice in a 2-0 win at relegation-bound Burnley.