Man United crashes to 'worst defeat in history'

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Liverpool brought Manchester United crashing down to world successful a stunning 7-0 rout astatine Anfield.

Only a week aft winning the League Cup, United experienced its heaviest decision successful the English Premier League and the club’s joint-worst nonaccomplishment successful each competitions.

Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah each struck doubly and Roberto Firmino scored the other, with six of the goals coming successful an explosive second-half performance.

It besides delivered a large stroke to manager Erik 10 Hag's four-pronged pursuit of trophies, with a league rubric situation present looking progressively unlikely.

Liverpool, meanwhile, took vantage of losses for apical 4 rivals Newcastle and Tottenham to fortify its bid to suffice for the Champions League.

Salah became the Merseyside club’s all-time starring Premier League scorer with 129 goals.

Liverpool whitethorn person endured a frustrating run truthful acold arsenic Jurgen Klopp's broadside has struggled for consistency but Anfield was successful raptures astatine the show of fierce rival United being humbled.

To adhd to that, the spread to fourth-place Tottenham is down to 3 points, with Liverpool inactive having a crippled successful hand.

While Liverpool eyed the apical four, United knew thing different than a triumph would beryllium a immense stroke to its situation for the rubric aft Arsenal's precocious 3-2 triumph against Bournemouth.

History, however, was not connected the visitors’ side, having failed to triumph astatine Anfield since 2016. United mislaid 4-0 successful the aforesaid fixture past season.

For each of United’s advancement nether Ten Hag, this was the latest trial of his team’s nervus connected the large occasion, having already seen losses astatine Manchester City and Arsenal this season.

And 7 days aft the Dutch manager won his archetypal trophy astatine United came this humiliating setback.

Gakpo enactment Liverpool up successful the 43rd infinitesimal erstwhile collecting Andrew Robertson’s pass. He instantly charged into the box, sidestepped Raphael Varane and past swept a changeable past David de Gea and into the bottommost corner.

United's players had been blameworthy of wasting chances of their ain earlier that extremity with Bruno Fernandes missing the people with a acold station header and Marcus Rashford firing tamely astatine Alisson with lone the goalkeeper to beat.

If United fans expected a effect aft the break, they were alternatively near stunned by Liverpool’s explosive commencement to the 2nd half.

Nunez extended Liverpool’s pb erstwhile heading successful Harvey Elliott’s transverse aft Luke Shaw failed to wide the ball.

It was 3-0 successful the 50th aft Salah's clever footwork bushed Lisandro Martinez and helium past clipped a walk for Gakpo to assistance implicit De Gea.

From determination it went from atrocious to worse for Ten Hag arsenic his squad inactive tried to get backmost into the match.

Liverpool ruthlessly exploited United's ragged defence, with Salah making it 4-0 successful the 66th and Nunez scoring again successful the 75th.

It was 6-0 erstwhile Salah scored successful the 83rd and substitute Firmino stepped disconnected the seat to people successful the 88th.

Liverpool's 7 goals came from conscionable 8 shots connected target.

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