After staring at 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 have been beautiful ruthless. The over-riding headline is that it’s seven objectives. You nearly have to look it to consider it. And this used to be a United crew getting into the sport with everybody raving about them. They have been flying top, and there have been query marks actually by means of Liverpool’s identify. If there used to be ever a turning level for Liverpool, to get the whole thing again not off course, then undoubtedly that is it,” Owen mentioned within the Premier League studio after the end result.
Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored a brace whilst Roberto Firmino got here off the bench so as to add yet another to that tally.
This used to be Liverpool’s greatest aggressive win over United within the Premier League, surpassing the 7-1 win they’d in the second one department, long ago in October 1895.
Summing up how incredulous the end result used to be, he added: “Any individual that appears on the consequence will suppose there’s one thing incorrect, or Manchester United went down to 10, and even 9 males, however none of this is true. It’s a huge rating and function from Liverpool, the whole thing about it used to be staggering.”
The outcome got here every week after United claimed their first trophy since 2017 by means of successful the League Cup. The defeat left United in 3rd position on 49 issues and undoubtedly out of the identify race. They’re 14 issues off leaders Arsenal, who’ve performed a recreation extra.
Liverpool’s fourth win in 5 league suits lifted them above Newcastle United into 5th on 42 issues, 3 issues at the back of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur with a recreation in hand.