Mo Salah rewrites player rating rulebook as Liverpool icon batters Rangers to make Champions League history

Substitute Mo Salah grabbed the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history as Liverpool thrashed Rangers 7-1 to complete a double over the beleagured Light Blues.

Jurgen Klopp's side had cantered to a 2-0 win over a tentative Gers side at Anfield last Tuesday but there was initially more fight about the Gers this time and they took the lead in the 17th minute with a Scott Arfield drive. Last season's finalists responded seven minutes later when Brazilian attacker Roberto Firmino headed in from a corner before grabbing a second in the 55th minute as the visitors' superior quality came to the fore.

Striker Darwin Nunez added a third with a fine finish in the 66th minute before Salah grabbed three goals in six minutes and 12 seconds with Harvey Elliott notching as Giovanni van Bronckhorst's side crumbled. It was not so much a Battle of Britain as a massacre and the Govan side remain rooted at the bottom of Group A without a point.

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ALISSON BECKER: The Brazillian must have been bracing himself for a busy night when Arfield fired past him but that was as good as it got for Gers. 6

JOE GOMEZ: Lucky to get away with a blind pass back to his keeper but pulled off a cross Trent Alexander-Arnold would have been proud off for Firmino’s second. 7

IBRAHIMA KONATE: Rangers might wonder what might have happened had the big Frenchman not got his boot in the way of Arfield’s effort just before half-time. 7

VIRGIL VAN DIJK: This was the former Celtic man’s first look at Ibrox but he had no problem handling the boos. Got a timely tackle before Jack could take aim. 7

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