FeatureThe biggest away wins for Liverpool's men's team
Liverpool achieved the biggest away win in the men's team's history on this day in 2000.
An 8-0 League Cup rout at Stoke City continues to stand alone, 22 years on, as the highest margin of victory by the Reds outside Anfield in all competitions.
The home team had actually struck the post before Christian Ziege kicked off the scoring with just six minutes on the clock, the first of half-a-dozen players to net for the visitors that night.
Vladimir Smicer, Markus Babbel and Robbie Fowler effectively put the fourth-round tie to bed with further strikes before the break, and Sami Hyypia and Danny Murphy got in on the act with quickfire efforts either side of the hour mark.
Fowler bagged two more late on to claim a hat-trick, the last coming from the penalty spot. It was easy to lose count – and the scoreboard inside the stadium did, showing 0-9 at one point.
It was a record result in an unforgettable season as Gerard Houllier’s side went on to lift the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup while also securing Champions League qualification.
“All through the game we never eased off really,” said Houllier post-match. “We kept working and working, and that’s probably why we scored four goals in each half.”
The prolific performance at Stoke is ahead of five instances of Liverpool’s men’s side registering a 7-0 victory on the road – including two under Jürgen Klopp.
They did so twice in quick succession in the Second Division in 1896 – beating Burton Swifts on a leap day and then Crewe Alexandra four weeks later.
It would be 110 years before it was repeated again.
In March 2006, Birmingham City were thrashed by Rafael Benitez’s Reds in the FA Cup quarter-finals on their route to lifting the trophy that season, a win bookended by goals from Hyypia one minute in and Djibril Cisse one minute from the end.
More recently, Klopp’s team stylishly recorded the scoreline at NK Maribor in the 2017-18 Champions League group phase – a record away win in Europe for the club.
Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah each bagged braces against the Slovenian outfit, while the scoring was rounded off by Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Liverpool won by that result on the road for a second time under the current boss almost two years ago, racking up seven unanswered goals in a Premier League meeting with Crystal Palace.
Coincidentally, Firmino and Salah both netted twice again in that lunchtime kick-off at Selhurst Park.
The men’s best six-goal winning margins away from home have arrived in the form of 7-1 victories, with the first a 1991 league defeat of Derby County that included John Barnes and Steve Nicol doubles.
That was emulated by the emphatic win at Rangers in the Champions League just last month, during which Salah produced the competition’s quickest hat-trick at six minutes and 12 seconds.
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“It’s a freak result and we all know that and we don’t make more of it than we should,” said Klopp afterwards at Ibrox. “But obviously it is the best we could have asked for and that is why I am pretty pleased.”
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