Mohamed Salah scored a hat-trick as Liverpool inflicted a 5-0 thrashing on Manchester United at Old Trafford; the defeat follows last weekend's 4-2 loss against Leicester and leaves Ole Gunnar Solskjaer under extreme pressure
Monday 25 October 2021 06:02, UK
In hindsight, this outcome was entirely predictable.
The Premier League's most lethal attack - Liverpool had scored 30 goals in their previous nine games in all competitions - against a defence that had shipped six goals in the last week and kept one clean sheet in the last six months.
"It's what I said," said Gary Neville after Mohamed Salah had rattled home Liverpool's fourth, "the minute they play a proper team, this is what's going to happen. If half-decent teams are scoring so many goals against them, proper teams will batter them."
Still, though, the extent of the collapse felt extraordinary. This Manchester United side have shown a knack for conjuring up results when they need them most but not this time. Not when they allow their opponent a four-on-one attack inside five minutes.
