Salah fired in from a narrow angle before catching out McGregor on his near post and then completed his hat-trick with a sumptuous finish on his left foot. Rangers' 40-year-old goalkeeper performed heroics to keep the score down as Liverpool won the first meeting between the sides 2-0 at Anfield last week.īut McGregor's age showed as Salah came off the bench to end his goal drought from open play in style.
Liverpool clicked through the gears after the break with Firmino again doing no harm to his case to be handed a contract beyond the end of this season.įirmino stroked home his eighth of the season from Joe Gomez's fine low cross and then teed up Nunez as the Uruguayan grabbed another much-needed goal for his fragile confidence by curling into the far corner past Allan McGregor. Not for the first time this season, Giovanni van Bronckhorst's men were guilty of soft defending from a set-piece as Firmino was given the simple task of nodding in Kostas Tsimikas' corner. The visitors have made a habit of slow starts this season and fell behind for the eighth time in 12 games when Arfield's run was not tracked from midfield and the former Canadian international produced a brilliant finish to find the bottom corner.įortunately for last season's Champions League finalists, Rangers' own defensive frailties were exposed for the equaliser on 24 minutes. Klopp's team selection was partly a reaction to losing Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joel Matip and Luis Diaz to injury in a 3-2 defeat to Arsenal on Sunday that left the Reds already 14 points adrift of the Premier League leaders. The Egyptian's treble arrived in just six minutes and 12 seconds to beat the previous record held by Bafetimbi Gomis in Lyon's 7-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb in 2011.Įlliott then rounded off the scoring on a sobering night for a Rangers side that only months ago reached the Europa League final.Ī draw in Amsterdam will suffice for Liverpool to reach the last 16 when they face Ajax in two weeks' time.īut Napoli remain out in front in Group A after a 4-2 win over Ajax sealed their place in the knockout stages. Klopp had left Salah and Thiago Alcantara on the bench with one eye on Sunday's clash against Manchester City in the Premier League.īut both were brought on for the final 22 minutes and Salah did not miss the chance to cash in against a beleaguered Rangers defence. But Rangers are being schooled on their return to the Champions League for the first time in 12 years as they remain without a point, conceding 16 goals in four games.įirmino's double either side of half-time turned the game around before the Brazilian teed up Nunez to kill off the contest.
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