Liverpool (7) Spartak Moscow (0): Champions League Match Reaction

The business end of the Champions League is beckoning as Liverpool secured top spot in Group E following a domineering performance against Spartak Moscow at Anfield.

There wasn’t even time for a bit of nerves with Philippe Coutinho, wearing the armband, converting from the spot before five minutes had even been played. The stand-in skipper would go on to bag a hat-trick, finishing a silky move for his second and having a deflected effort squeak past Spartak ‘keeper Aleksandr Selikhov to nab his first European hat-trick for the Merseysiders. To be fair, by that point it was looking done and dusted with a Roberto Firmino strike and ...