Ajax 0 – 3 Liverpool

Mohamed Salah’s clipped finish and quickfire goals at the start of the second half from Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott took Liverpool to a 3-0 win at Ajax which sends them into the Champions League last 16.

The visitors should have been a couple of goals behind in Amsterdam by the time Salah (42) latched onto Jordan Henderson’s outside-of-the-boot pass and finished first-time for his sixth strike in five Champions League games this term.

Steven Berghuis had smacked a shot against the post just three minutes in and Dusan Tadic would have expected to score when his effort was blocked by Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Liverpool had struggled to get up the pitch for most of that opening period but finished the half strongly and were kicking themselves for not going in two clear at the break when Nunez somehow hit the back post from Roberto Firmino’s inviting pass.

They were soon out of sight at the start of the second period, though, with Nunez (49) powerfully heading in from a corner to make up for that bad miss and Salah then feeding a pass through for Elliott (52) to smack home at the near post, as a three-minute blitz all-but ended the contest.

Napoli’s comfortable win over Rangers ensured they sit top of the pile in this group and are almost certain to win it but Liverpool’s victory – in their 150th Champions League match – means they can now rest key players for their home game with the Italian side on Tuesday. That will be welcomed by boss Jurgen Klopp, given the injuries he’s currently dealing with.

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Saturday 29th October 7:30pm


Kick off 7:45pm

Liverpool return to Premier League action on Saturday when they host Leeds, live on Sky Sports; kick-off 7.45pm. Their final Champions League group-stage fixture sees them host Napoli at Anfield on Tuesday November 1.

Ajax do not have a domestic fixture this weekend, with their next game against Rangers at Ibrox on Tuesday in the Champions League.