Liverpool scored six goals in the second half as they embarrassed Rangers at Ibrox with a 7-1 win in the Champions League.
Jurgen Klopp’s side had cantered to a 2-0 win over a tentative Gers side at Anfield last Tuesday but there was initially more fight about the Gers this time and they took the lead in the 17th minute with a Scott Arfield drive.
Last season’s finalists responded seven minutes later when Brazilian attacker Roberto Firmino headed in from a corner before grabbing a second in the 55th minute as the visitors’ superior quality came to the fore.
Striker Darwin Nunez added a third with a fine finish in the 66th minute before Salah grabbed three goals in six minutes and 12 seconds with Harvey Elliott notching as Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side crumbled.
It was not so much a Battle of Britain as a massacre and the Govan side remain rooted at the bottom of Group A without a point.
Liverpool are six points clear of Ajax and three behind leaders Napoli with two fixtures remaining.
It was hoped by those of a Rangers persuasion that Ibrox could help fuel a much-needed positive result in their first Champions League campaign in 12 years and they were encouraged by Liverpool’s injury woes.
Luis Diaz, Joel Matip and Trent Alexander-Arnold were added to the list following Sunday’s 3-2 loss to Arsenal, while Mohamed Salah was dropped to the bench, along with Thiago and Diogo Jota, although the Egyptian would take the headlines later.
Joe Gomez, Ibrahima Konate, Fabio Carvalho, Firmino, Elliott and Fabinho came into the side.
Gers winger Ryan Kent took over from Rabbi Matondo on the left while Gers top scorer Antonio Colak was preferred to Alfredo Morelos, who started at Anfield.
The scene was set and it was the home side who drew first blood.
Skipper James Tavernier initially won possession in the Reds’ half and when Colak picked up the ball and laid it off to midfielder Ryan Jack he stroked it into the path of Arfield who drove low past Alisson Becker from the edge of the box to send Ibrox into raptures.
Minutes later, Gomez’s pass back to Alisson was too short but Colak could not get the ball under control and the chance was lost.
Smarting Liverpool increased the tempo and drew level when Firmino beat Tavernier to Kostas Tsimikas’s corner from the right to head in at the near post.
Back came Rangers and in the 41st minute Arfield’s shot from eight yards, from a Fashion Sakala cut-back, was blocked by Konate and Elliott completed…
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