Liverpool have booked their spot in the Europa League quarter-finals
The Reds thrashed Sparta Prague 6-1 at Anfield to record an 11-2 aggregate win
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As Liverpool players queued up and took turns to hammer the ball into Sparta Prague’s goal, a sigh of relief from Pep Guardiola could almost be heard coming from Manchester.
Jurgen Klopp’s men obliterated their Czech counterparts with a merciless display that made the Treble winners’ point here last Sunday look incredibly valuable. Liverpool now go to bitter rivals United on Sunday and, on this form, Old Trafford could see a premature demolition job.
Let’s hope for Ten Hag’s sake that he did not tune in for the first 15 minutes, when Liverpool led 4-0 after a flurry of goals from Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah, Bobby Clark and Cody Gakpo.
There were more chances for the Kindergarten Kop, whose latest graduate Mateusz Musialowski made his first-team debut, and 19-year-old Clark netted his first goal in Liverpool colours — even if the stadium announcer confused him with dad Lee when reading out the starting XIs.
