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Liverpool secured a 3-0 win over Ajax to book their place in the Champions League last-16, but the Dutch giants wasted several opportunities to open the scoring on Wednesday night
Will the real Liverpool please stand up?
On an entertaining night of Champions League football on Wednesday, Jurgen Klopp’s side produced an alarming performance against Ajax, before cruising to a victory thanks to three goals in 10 minutes which delivered them into the knockout phase of the competition.
The Reds are now unbeaten in 17 European matches against Dutch opponents, and yet you’d have offered slim odds of that throughout the first half hour of this tie, when it seemed there would be a repeat of the 5-1 win Ajax enjoyed in their very first meeting with the English club.
In the end, another accomplished display of the striking arts from Mo Salah was enough to sway the contest, his goal and then a fine assist for Harvey Elliott – with a Darwin Nunez header sandwiched in between – offering that ultimately convincing victory. But that was far from the whole story.