Liverpool produced a superb display in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final to secure a 3-0 win over Manchester City at Anfield.

Goals from Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sadio Mane ensured the Reds will go to the Etihad Stadium with an encouraging advantage.

Here is what the media made of the game…

Melissa Reddy, Joe.co.uk

Liverpool live for big European nights, and so, they go big for it. It is heritage, it is inherent. For all the talk of aura not being a factor against the Manchester City juggernaut, Pep Guardiola may as well have traded notes with Louis van Gaal and Thomas Tuchel in the aftermath of their 3-0 defeat. The visitors did not heed their previous schooling and the home terraces thundered with even more passion, while Liverpool ramped up their status as City’s disruptors-in-chief. The first 45 minutes explained the angst layered on Txiki Begiristain’s face when the draw for this stage was made. The Premier League champions-in-waiting would have been happier with anyone but the Reds, who are so familiar with their blueprint and so formidable at using it against them. City arrived at Anfield with the intention of nullifying any thoughts of a quick Liverpool start and unsuccessfully tried to use slow possession to stifle their opponents and quieten the crowd. They also had designs on isolating Trent Alexander-Arnold against Leroy Sane, but the young Scouser was more than equal to the challenge with his team-mates awake to and awaiting that danger to thwart it. He was as excellent as Andy Robertson on the opposite flank as well as Virgil van Dijk and Dejan Lovren between them. Pick a Liverpool player, any one, and applaud: there were gigantic individual performances stitched by a clear collective objective.

James Pearce, Liverpool Echo

The foolish labelled it a myth. They doubted the power of Anfield. They won't do it again after Manchester City were brought to their knees amid the cauldron on an unforgettable night. Liverpool have one foot in the semi-finals of the Champions League after humbling the Premier League champions elect and writing a new glorious chapter in the club's illustrious European history. Here was fresh proof of Anfield's enduring ability to inspire those in red to remarkable heights and intimidate even the most star-studded opponents in equal measure. City owner Sheikh Mansour can afford most things but he can't buy passion like this. At the final whistle a beaming Jürgen Klopp strode on to the field to embrace his heroes and pay homage to those in the stands who had provided the exhilarating soundtrack to such a breathtaking triumph. Fearless teenager Trent Alexander-Arnold rose to the occasion on the biggest night of his young career as he kept the dangerous Leroy Sane quiet. The boy from West Derby could hold his head high. The clean sheet was beyond Liverpool's wildest dreams ahead of next Tuesday's second leg. If anyone in Europe can come back from this sort of deficit it's Manchester City but if Liverpool score at the Etihad, City will need five and that's an unbelievable position for the Reds to find themselves in.

Andy Hunter, The Guardian

With stellar contributions from Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander‑Arnold, James Milner and, forget the list, every member of the Liverpool team, Anfield revelled in another superb European night as Klopp’s men moved imperiously towards the semi-finals. They were assisted by Guardiola’s decision to deploy Gündoğan at the expense of Sterling, who has admittedly struggled on his returns to Anfield, until switching the pair with 57 minutes gone. By then it was too late to change the game. It may be too late for the tie. Gündoğan was found wanting for Liverpool’s first and second goals. The kiss he received after the final whistle from Klopp, his former coach at Borussia Dortmund, was the only present he got from Liverpool all night. Bravery was combined with brilliance from Liverpool. They did not let up at 2-0. They did not let up at three. Guardiola did not have one player who compared and that is why City, not the team that trail them by 18 points in the Premier League, are facing a Champions League exit.

Miguel Delaney, Independent

After a magical Liverpool night that lived up to every effusive word ever uttered about Anfield, Pep Guardiola and Manchester City are now going to have live up to all the hype about them to turn this tie around. The Catalan will maybe have to produce his greatest feat of management yet, or something at least as wondrous as Klopp conjured here for this coruscating 3-0 victory that itself will match anything this great old ground has seen in Europe. That’s the scale of the task for City in the second leg, that’s how magnificent Liverpool were. It was amazing to think that the utterly thrashed visitors could be crowned the most commanding ever English champions as soon as Saturday, because it’s been a long time since they have been made to look this callow, this out of ideas, this poor.

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