Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Thursday, October 13.
Mohamed Salah proves Jurgen Klopp right
Jurgen Klopp is far too long in the tooth to hold plentiful stock in a single performance, writes Ian Doyle.
But there was sufficient evidence on this astonishing Champions League evening to tentatively suggest that, after a dismal start to the campaign, Liverpool may finally be spluttering into life. Certainly, there have been fewer more emphatic statements under the Reds boss at a time when he and his players desperately needed it.
And for individual players, it proved an evening in which reputations went some way to being restored.
None more so than Mohamed Salah. Named among the substitutes with one eye on Sunday’s Premier League blockbuster clash at home to Manchester City, the Egyptian could have no qualms had he been dropped regardless after an underwhelming season was encapsulated by being hooked following a below-par display in the weekend loss at Arsenal.
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Gary Lineker responds to Liverpool thrashing of Rangers
Gary Lineker has claimed Liverpool's season has 'finally started' after they thumped Rangers 7-1 at Ibrox.
The Reds put aside their domestic problems to pick up a third consecutive win in the Champions League. Roberto Firmino's brace either side of half-time turned around an early Scott Arfield opener before a six-minute Mohamed Salah hat-trick, plus goals from Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott, took Jurgen Klopp's side onto nine points in Group A.
Despite a litany of injuries hampering the squad, Liverpool 's second-half performance seemed to answer every question from the last few weeks, with Ibrahima Konate and Virgil van Dijk solid in defence, Firmino outstanding throughout and Salah returning to his devastating best.
And after the final whistle in Glasgow, former Leicester, Barcelona and Tottenham striker Lineker hailed a return to the norm for Klopp's men.
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