Liverpool won convincingly against Marseille in the Champions League with Dominik Szoboszlai impressing and Cody Gakpo coming off the bench to score.
Arne Slot needed a victory like this one and his players delivered to give themselves a big hope of finishing inside the top eight spots of the league phase, thus avoiding the play-off round and the two extra fixtures that brings.
Though Roberto De Zerbi's men didn't offer much in the way of any tactics to slow Liverpool down, it was an impressive performance from the Reds nonetheless, and another hint that Europe could offer a way for Slot's team to make something of this season.
Mohamed Salah returned and Florian Wirtz and Ryan Gravenberch were among those to play well. Next up for Liverpool is a trip to Bournemouth in which it will need to build on this result and prove it wasn't a one-off.
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