Liverpool beat Porto at Estadio Dragao 5-1 courtesy of goals from Salah, Mane, Firmino. The 6-times European champion has now scored 14 goals in their last three visits to Porto.
Mohamed Salah opened the scoring for Liverpool in the 18th minute. The Egyptian pounced on a parried Curtis Jones’ shot, which unexpectedly hit the feet of left-back Sanusi, and rolled it home.
Mane added the second goal after a sweet cross from Milner which missed everybody on its way before reaching the Senegalese forward. The winger tapped the ball home with goalkeeper Diogo Costa way off his line. Diogo Costa had a horrid night against the reds.
Diogo Jota missed several chances in the first half and Liverpool easily could have scored more than two goals.
Liverpool scores 5
The second half was no different as Liverpool created chance after chance against the home opposition.
Curtis Jones after a good run with the ball found Mohamed Salah wanting in the far side of the penalty area. The Egyptian made no mistake and scored his second of the night.
Meanwhile, Porto had their consolation goal with 15 minutes from full time. Striker Taremi headed home from Fabio Vieira’s cross after he brilliantly went right side of Joe Gomez.
However, Porto’s misery was not over yet as Firmino came late on and scored twice to round off the victory for Liverpool.
Brazilian’s first goal involved a horror goalkeeping show from Diogo Costa who came off the line despite it is not required at all. Firmino passed the ball into the net with the keeper chasing the ball sprinting back to his goal. It perfectly summed up the night for the Portuguese giants.
Meanwhile, Liverpool has now won two consecutive matches and is firmly in control of the group. They previously beat AC Milan in the first match 3-2 at Anfield.
Liverpool next faces Manchester City in the Premier League. The city comes into the game after losing to Paris Saint Germain in their Champions League game.
