The Reds thumped the Red Devils 7-0 in the North West derby with Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez, and Mo Salah each scoring a brace, while Roberto Firmino also got in on the action.

It was United’s worst competitive defeat in more than 90 years.

For Salah, his brace meant that he has become Liverpool’s all-time top scorer in the Premier League. Salah's 129 goals takes him past Robbie Fowler's previous record of 128 goals, after previously better the tallies of Steven Gerrard with 120 and Michael Owen with 118 goals.

The win has also moved the Reds up 5th in the standings and they are all of a sudden strong contenders to a top-four finish this season and to qualify for the UEFA Champions League. 

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, said it was a freak result, but he was more than satisfied after what was undoubtably his teams best performance of the season.

“Freak result, but a top performance,” said Klopp.

“A really top performance from the start, I thought the way we started the game was really special, the best for a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

“We were there, we were aggressive but we played football. We were calm in the right moments, super-lively, super-active in other moments and after 25-minutes it opened up a bit.

“United came a bit better into the game but the late goal before half-time was a sensational goal: what Robbo is doing there, cutting inside and is then really calm – what we were actually asking for, that in these moments we have to give ourselves time to get into the right position – and then Cody realised it early enough that Robbo wants to pass the ball there and a super finish.

“Second half starts, I don’t think the second half could start better with the two goals we forced there pretty much and from that moment on the boys were flying.

“Then it was really difficult to play against us and how I said, the performance is important, three points is even more important, and the result is just the result.”

In some of the weekends other results - Manchester City beat Newcastle 2-0, Arsenal beat Bournemouth 3-2, Chelsea beat Leeds 1-0 while Brighton & Hove Albion thumped West Ham 4-0 and Wolverhampton Wanderers stunned Tottenham Hotspur with a 1-0 win.

Morgan Piek OFM Sport