After watching his former facet blow Manchester United out of the water with a 7-0 scoreline, Liverpool legend Michael Owen lauded the end result as a turning level for the under-performing membership’s season.
“They had been fairly ruthless. The over-riding headline is that it’s seven targets. You virtually should see it to consider it. And this was a United workforce coming into the sport with everybody raving about them. They had been flying excessive, and there have been query marks actually by Liverpool’s identify. If there was ever a turning level for Liverpool, to get every thing again on observe, then absolutely that is it,” Owen stated within the Premier League studio after the end result.
Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored a brace whereas Roberto Firmino got here off the bench so as to add another to that tally.
This was Liverpool’s largest aggressive win over United within the Premier League, surpassing the 7-1 win they’d within the second division, manner again in October 1895.
Summing up how incredulous the end result was, he added: “Anybody that appears on the end result will assume there’s one thing incorrect, or Manchester United went down to 10, and even 9 males, however none of that’s true. It’s a monumental rating and efficiency from Liverpool, every thing about it was staggering.”
The end result got here every week after United claimed their first trophy since 2017 by successful the League Cup. The defeat left United in third place on 49 factors and absolutely out of the title race. They’re 14 factors off leaders Arsenal, who’ve performed a sport 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 sport in hand.