Mohamed Salah of Liverpool celebrates after scoring the crew’s fourth objective throughout the Premier League match in opposition to Manchester United at Anfield on March 05, 2023
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Liverpool introduced Manchester United’s bandwagon to a shuddering halt as Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored twice in a record 7-0 hammering of their arch-rivals to spice up their Premier League top-four hopes at Anfield on Sunday.
Per week after a resurgent United claimed their first trophy since 2017 by successful the League Cup and amid speak of a title push they had been blown away both facet of halftime as Liverpool recorded their largest ever margin of victory in the fixture.
Third-placed United had seemed marginally the higher facet for 43 minutes nevertheless it became an Anfield horror present for Erik ten Hag’s facet as they suffered the membership’s worst defeat since a 7-0 loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1931.
Gakpo’s very good end from Liverpool’s first try heading in the right direction gave the hosts the halftime lead.
Within 5 minutes of the restart it was throughout as a contest with Nunez making it 2-0 with a header after some comical United defending earlier than a lightning Liverpool counter-attack led by Salah ended with Gakpo ending in fashion for 3-0.
With United in disarray and shedding their heads Salah received in on the act to rifle in his facet’s fourth in the 66th minute and Nunez then despatched a header previous helpless goalkeeper David De Gea in the seventy fifth. But there was nonetheless extra to return.
Liverpool’s supervisor Jurgen Klopp celebrates with Liverpool’s Cody Gakpo
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Salah rubbed salt into United wounds with a close-range effort to attain a record 129th Premier League objective for the membership, taking him previous the mark of Robbie Fowler.
Roberto Firmino then got here off the bench to ship Juergen Klopp’s facet into seventh heaven though by that stage most of United’s military of followers had headed for the exits.
Liverpool had thrashed United 4-0 at Anfield final April however contemplating the reversal of fortunes for the 2 golf equipment since that day this outcome was a significant shock.
United’s sobering defeat, described by Sky Sports pundit and their former defender Gary Neville as a ‘disgrace’, left them in third place on 49 factors and certainly out of the title race. They are 14 factors off leaders Arsenal, who’ve performed a recreation extra.
Liverpool’s fourth win in 5 league matches lifted them above Newcastle United into fifth on 42 factors, three factors behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with a recreation in hand.
“It was a fantastic day for everyone,” Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson instructed Sky Sports. “The performance level from every single player was top quality today which is something that we’ve been missing for a while of course.
“Today you could see the energy levels and everything was back, although to be fair the last few Premier League games had shown we were on the right path.”
Liverpool’s earlier largest win over United was a 7-1 victory in 1895 when each golf equipment had been in the second tier.
