EPL: Salah hits hat-trick as Liverpool pummel Man Utd 5-0 at home
Mo Salah scored a hattrick on a day Liverpool went wild, scoring five good goals against star-studded and ‘lazy’ Manchester United at Old Trafford.
The home humiliation came exactly after 10 years and one day the team were overwhelmed 6-1 by rivals Manchester City.
Naby Keita opened the scoring for the visitors in the fifth minute of the match before Diogo Jota increased the tally in the 13th minute and thereafter Salah scored in the 38’minutes, 45’+5minutes, 50’minutes respectively.
It was a bad day for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and the entire Man Utd fans as they demanded a change in the managerial aspect of the club.
The fans said they have had enough of Solskjaer who could not put great talent together to win matches.
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Gary Neville has laid into Solskjaer after United were put to the sword by Liverpool in a first-half shocker saw them go in at half-time 4-0 down.
And Neville, who has insisted he would not call for his friend and former team-mate to be sacked as Manchester United manager, nonetheless called their showing ‘really disturbing’ and criticised the coaching staff.
He said: ‘It’s a massive problem for Solskjaer. You can talk about McTominay and Fred, Ronaldo up front, but it’s the whole team. You need to think about no shots, no shots on target, winning your individual battles. It does come down to the coaching team, it’s nowhere near good enough.
‘Manchester United are kidding themselves that they are a pressing team, that they can co-ordinate it as one. Liverpool just pull them apart. Look, all over the place. This is now a really disturbing first half, it takes the game away. This was the fear. This is what Manchester United’s levels of performance have been like all season.
‘This is a proper team. I don’t think Liverpool are at their best. They are clinical and precise and organised in defence. Man United, this Man United, haven’t got the answers for that. I don’t think they’ll change it after today but it puts massive pressure.
‘This is the first super team they are playing against and they are being pulled apart like they wouldn’t believe. Liverpool have done their homework. The minute they play a proper team, this is what is going to happen. Half decent teams are putting goals against them, proper teams will batter them. It’s crazy stuff there.’
Salah slid in Keita for a simple finish very early in the game, before Luke Shaw and Harry Maguire ran into one another, leaving Trent Alexander-Arnold to square to Jota for a tap-in.