MO SALAH made history by being the first player from Liverpool to score 20 goals or more in seven straight seasons.
However, the Egyptian would end each campaign with 80 goals if he could play every week against opponents as awful as Sparta.
Bobby Clark starred as Liverpool thrashed Sparta Prague in the Europa League
Mohamed Salah became the first Reds player to score 20 goals or more in seven successive seasons
Liverpool was unstoppable, but the Czech champions were completely out of it as Jurgen Klopp’s quadruple-chasers won with absurd ease.
Darwin Nunez, Bobby Clark, Cody Gakpo (two goals), and Dominik Szoboszlai joined Salah in this most recent Reds goal fest. If Liverpool had really wanted to, they could have scored ten goals.
Sparta is among the worst teams Liverpool has ever faced in the knockout stages of a European tournament, and they will face even tougher opponents in today’s quarterfinal draw.
Nunez, Joe Gomez, and Wataru Endo were all able to be taken off the pitch at halftime by Klopp, who is currently getting ready for Sunday’s FA Cup match against Manchester United.
Nevertheless, the Liverpool manager received a yellow card despite his protests about substitute Jarell Quansah’s somewhat severe booking.
Amazingly, Liverpool led 4-0 after 14 minutes after scoring three goals in the span of three goals and twelve minutes.
In the seventh minute, Nunez, who was unmarked, scored his 17th goal of the year by stroking Szobozlai’s pass into the corner.
On his first ever European goal, Bobby Clark scored a second goal in just 68 seconds after Sparta captain Ladislav Krejci made a self-destructive pass over the goal’s face.
Clark scored his first senior goal in the Anfield rout
After the hustling Clark stole the ball from Jaroslav Zeleny, Salah cemented his spot in Liverpool history with a low shot from inside the box.
Once Salah found him, Gakpo made it 4-0 with a first-time finish, ensuring that the first three players had their names on the scoreboard.
The Czech supporters were loud and proud even though their team performed appallingly; at least they had something to cheer about when Serb attacker Veljko Birmancevic beat Caoimhin Kelleher with a shot.
Less than three minutes had passed when Krejci diverted Szoboszlai’s attempt, which appeared to be going wide, into the net.
Harvey Elliott’s effort was deflected by Gakpo with a deft flick, sending struggling goalkeeper Peter Vindahkl through nightmares ahead of these two games versus Liverpool.
Mateusz Musialowski, a 20-year-old attacking midfielder from Poland, made his debut under Klopp’s tutelage. The one unexpected move was the 66th-minute risk taken on captain Virgil van Dijk.