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Liverpool Football Club received earned the first win of their Champions League Campaign against Slovenian side Maribor in a 7-0 rout on Tuesday night.

Maribor who are the lowest ranked team in the group literally had no answers in response to Liverpool's sheer quality, pace, strength and even movement on the night.

After being frustrated by Manchester United's tactics in the Premier League, Liverpool were keen on issuing a response in this match and they certainly did so from the first minute.

Salah and Firmino both scored twice in the game, with additional goals coming from Coutinho, Oxlade-Chamberlain and youngster Alexander-Arnold.

"I didn't know about the record until after the game," Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said. "The wonderful history of this club can feel like a backpack at times, so it is nice to write our own good piece of the history. It will be difficult to beat that record.

"It is quite rare to win 7-0 but it showed we did unbelievably well. The boys deserved that. When you don't score it is a challenge to stay confident but we will try to use this result now."

"We wanted to show our best counter-pressing and a few of the goals came from that," Klopp said. "We were also cool inside the penalty area" – cool, devastating and record-breaking.