The perfect performance: Why can't it be like this every week? | OneFootball

Why can’t it be like this every week?

This is exactly the kind of lift-off Liverpool's season needed. They have now qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals - following an utterly supreme display in the second leg of their last-16 tie against Galatasaray at Anfield.

It could not have gone any better in truth. The team started at a high tempo, played aggressively and the crowd responded in turn.

In fact the two went hand in hand. And Arne Slot will have learned plenty from it.

What a contrast it is since Sunday. Liverpool were booed off against Tottenham following the flatest of flat displays. And here they rolled their sleeves up from the start and delivered their best, most complete performance of the season.

Best performance of the season

There was never any other outcome likely from the moment the game got underway. Not for a second did the home side look threatened by Galatasaray.

The six-time European champions showed what they are made of - and corrected the wrongs of Istanbul away last week.

Four goals, two more disallowed and a missed penalty kick? This was a veritable attacking feast. Slot’s men put in an expected goals total of 5.04 - scoring four.

Dominik Szoboszlai started the party, Ryan Gravenberch and Hugo Ekitike got in on the act too. And then the moment we’ve been waiting for - Mohamed Salah scoring his 50th Champions League goal.

Salah in particular showed signs of his old self. No longer isolated on the right wing he moved closer to the box and gave an assist as well as his goal.

There's lessons in there for Arne Slot too.